"Conor" wrote in message
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There must be a fix - anyone?

Yeah..WINDOWS UPDATE. The slow network transfer fix is in an automatic
update and also in SP1.


I have read reports that the issue is still prevalent post sp1....

Gaz

LR wrote:
Alex Fraser wrote:
LR wrote:
Ric wrote:
I'm not alone in this but I've not seen a definitive guide to why it's
so slow

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/02/04/2826167.aspx


Interesting, but (unless I misread) suggests it should be no worse
than XP, which could hardly be less true in my (admittedly limited)
experience of Vista.

When SP1 was released anandtech did do a write up on some of the changes
and they did make this comment
"Finally, and the reason that Microsoft believes is the root of most of
the Vista complaints, Explorer under XP cheated a bit with file copying
operations; it considered the job done once it had finished writing a
file to the write cache. Vista meanwhile doesn't consider the job done
until it is done writing the file to disk, so Vista will almost never
“win""
http://www.anandtech.com/systems/sho...spx?i=3233&p=3

Yeah, that's covered by the blog above, and will make copying between
local drives where the destination has write caching enabled appear
slightly slower even if it is exactly as fast. I say "slightly" because
usually only fast/fixed devices - ie HDDs - will have write caching
enabled, and in that case the difference is seconds regardless of the
size of the job.

I was really referring to the original issue: slow transfer rates for
copying over a network. In this case, the time taken for the copy
dialogue box to disappear might be significantly longer due to the
caching issue, but what I've seen (and others have reported) is far
lower network utilisation: XP on a fairly modern machine all but
saturated 100Mbit Ethernet, while Vista didn't come close.

Alex

No problems with vista here - just as quick as XP. Try getting it configured
properly.

OSX I just find a hand holding irritatation...just sold my last one - me and
macs just never clicked!

On 22 Jun, 16:43, "john" wrote:
No problems with vista here - just as quick as XP. Try getting it configured
properly.

OSX I just find a hand holding irritatation...just sold my last one - me and
macs just never clicked!

Try getting it configured properly? You mean by researching the
problem, making some changes, then posting the details on Usenet with
a request for help? Brilliant, sheer brilliance. Thank you *so*
much for your insight.

"Synapse Syndrome" wrote in message
...

If you have lots of files to copy, use Robocopy instead, which has a lot
of other advantages, and is a lot faster. There is a GUI for it, but it's
mostly useful just for making scripts.

For a faster GUI drag and drop sort of solution, I am going to look into
making a custom button in Total Commander, to use Robocopy with switches
to keep timestamps intact. I have been meaning to do this for a couple of
weeks, but I should have time to experiment this weekend.


I have sorted out a custom button in Total Commander, which uses all the
Robocopy switches I want, keeping the timestamps intact. If anybody is
interested, I'll post the full details on how to do it. I'm really happy
with this solution, personally.

ss.

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 23:51:06 +0100, "Synapse Syndrome"
wrote:

"Synapse Syndrome" wrote in message
...

If you have lots of files to copy, use Robocopy instead, which has a lot
of other advantages, and is a lot faster. There is a GUI for it, but it's
mostly useful just for making scripts.

For a faster GUI drag and drop sort of solution, I am going to look into
making a custom button in Total Commander, to use Robocopy with switches
to keep timestamps intact. I have been meaning to do this for a couple of
weeks, but I should have time to experiment this weekend.


I have sorted out a custom button in Total Commander, which uses all the
Robocopy switches I want, keeping the timestamps intact. If anybody is
interested, I'll post the full details on how to do it. I'm really happy
with this solution, personally.

ss.



Yes please !
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