Slow copy speed vista

Tuesday, September 25, AM. Monday, October 8, PM. Tuesday, October 9, AM. Wednesday, October 10, AM. Thursday, October 11, AM. Hi All, Just a quick suggestion for you all which has resolved the local drive slow copy issues I have encountered.

Note however that if I then plugged that drive as a slave into the first channel on the controller the speeds went downhill again. So it seems that as long as the drive is on a different IDE channel to the other drives and is the master device copying is not an issue Saturday, October 27, AM. Saturday, October 27, PM.

BOTH are the pits,! Just as bad as Windows 3. XP was the best thing since fresh bread and they had to destroy it. Hope they send out Service Pak one real soon. Tuesday, December 18, PM. I am also facing the same problem. I have Vista Premium.

Even copying 2 files less than an MB stall the Windows Explorer for a few minutes. The same occurs for deleting. I disabled the 'Remote Differential Compression' but even that does not work!

I think, not sure, the delay starts happening after I get the system out of sleep. I don't know though Wednesday, December 19, AM.

Saturday, January 5, AM. God knows when the fix will arrive. Monday, November 3, PM. It seems exponentially slower to access the drive when I am using more than half my system resources, mostly affected by RAM usage.

Thursday, December 4, PM. Vista SP1 hasn't done a thing to help with this. It took 15 minutes! Dial-up Internet is faster! From the same XP box, I copied 4. There is something terribly wrong with that picture. It is faster to copy to a thumb drive and use SneakerNet than it is to use Vista on a network. Sunday, January 25, PM. I have gone as far as using TeraCopy 2.

Instead of the Vista's unreasonable 20 hour estimate, I get a 20 minute estimate for a 5GB multi-file copy operation from Server Enough said. Sunday, February 15, AM. I experienced this problem on my work machine and found a solution that seems to have fixed my problem. Here's the scenario: - I started work using a new Dell Vostro PC - Anytime I would try to copy documents from any network storage, the copy would take forever, copying at roughly 30kbps, and sometimes getting a "file is inaccessable" error and have to restart the copy.

Setting the link speed to "Auto Negotiation" fixed the problem for me. Hope this helps. Proposed as answer by tbock Tuesday, February 17, PM. Tuesday, February 17, PM. A guy in our development team at work has written some utilities for file copies using the Windows APIs rather than using Explorer. He's able to max out his gigabit network doing file transfers with the API.

In other words, when you take Explorer out of the equation, file transfers in Vista are so fast that the network becomes the bottleneck instead of the OS. Maybe we could get the Vista guys to talk to my coworker. He could show them how to do file transfers correctly. Thursday, February 19, PM. I ran into a new and interesting quirk related to this.

The progress was going as well as expected, copying about 20MB per second. The remaining bytes was moving downward as expected. The estimated time continued to climb and climb until at one point it said that the estimate was 72 days and 19 hours - to copy 20GB from my portable drive.

All this time while the copy was actually proceeding at a reasonable speed. The copy obviously didn't take hours or days; it took a few minutes. The time estimate has been identified as part of the problem with file copies in Vista. It is definitely problematic in other ways, as I experienced above. Does the product team still have no fix for file copy issues in Vista? Or have they abandoned us who faithfully leaped into Vista in favor of those who they are still hoping to get to leap to Windows 7?

Tuesday, March 10, PM. Andrews 0. Tuesday, September 22, AM. Saturday, September 26, PM. I have the same problem as kaushalmodi, only it's almost 2 years later and it's Windows 7 ultimate.

Windows explorer was very slow. Took like seconds to perform routine operations e. This is just to delete small files e. I had put my computer to sleep a few times over the week.

After a fresh boot, performance is normal. Beside the warning at start up running a program on the network is a dangerous activity these days , the program is much slower as it has to do network file operations, but the numbers are again very consistent: smallx I disabled Windows Search service and got the following: smallx Just for curiosity Comment by Roberto Icardi on May 16, I failed to mention I have SP1 installed, don't know how it would have been without it.

Perhaps that can shine some light on what is stealing the the time. I see the same thing on Vista SP1 - sometimes a copy or even a move of a file just takes inexplicably long time.

Try comparing the built-in unzip to f. Built-in takes ages and ages, while 7-zip usually is done within a few seconds. Or is this new BitDefender thingy running and checking files in real-time? Just some ideas My Vista Home Premium edition does not permit the indexing to be switched off.

Comment by delphi fan on May 16, Vista File Copy Operations Can Be Slow Here is my experience with the supefetch service on Vista : when enabling it : my laptop takes up to 45 seconds from a cold start to the logon screen when disabling it : my laptop takes up to seconds from a cold start to the logon screen! What more can I say! Comment by Stephane Wierzbicki on May 16, Vista File Copy Operations Can Be Slow Questions arise about virus scanners, desktop indexing engines, OS background tasks and what other types of applications are running on the system Factor changes in the realm of x leads to a lot of questions about the systems involved.

Personally, my perception was that when Vista isn't moving video and trying to thumbnail it at the same time - stupid shell team! Comment by Xepol on May 16, Vista File Copy Operations Can Be Slow I found something in a hidden Vista specs file: "If a user copies more than 10 files at a time, then this not likely what he wanted.

He probably hit the wrong button. Maybe you have already encountered the strange behavior that it takes much longer to copy large files in Windows Vista than it does in Windows XP.

You thought that the change from XP to Vista would at least be not a disadvantage speed-wise but Vista somehow seems to have a problem copying large files. This happens especially with mapped and network drives it seems. The problem is caused by a new feature called Auto Tuning which is by default enabled in Microsoft Windows Vista. What Auto Tuning does is react on changes in the network by tuning the receive windows size.

The solution would be of course to disable Auto Tuning in Vista. Some users reported that disabling Auto Tuning had a positive effect on their ability to connect to services such as Windows Live Messenger which did not work before. To disable Auto Tuning, speed up the copy process and avoid timeouts and disconnects do the following:.

Update : Microsoft has created a support page on Microsoft Support. The company recommends to disable the auto tuning service if users experience longer than expected email download times in Outlook or Outlook For example, when you download a 1-megabyte MB message, the download process may take as long as one hour. When this problem occurs, you may receive the following error message:.

If this problem continues, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider ISP.