Rob Garrett - Blogs

I just copy from the C:\> now. :)

For the most part is does nothing. This is a huge problem right now. http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1138289&SiteID=17 sadly MS has done nothing to fix it.

For those of you using the Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC, and if your are having massive internet download slowdown and file transfer slowdown in Windows VISTA, your problems are over: One needs to update the driver. Basically very simple, it just took me two days to figure it out and find the right driver. All the blogs and websites talk about disabling this, and tweeking that. I tried all that crap and it didn't work. No one suggested to install the following driver at least that I could find and if the folks who are trying to solve this problem are like me, I know, I know you want to throw your computer out the window, and you are sitting there saying, Why Why Why didn't I wait to do this upgrade. Just Google ---> "WinVista_6104_NIC_8139-20070620.zip" and you will find it. Install the new driver and just like magic your internet speeds and file transfer speeds should once again be smokin, of course your milage will vary dependent on the speed of your ISP and network. Whew!

I am having this problem too, odd however, is that if I copy files from an XP Virtual PC session from the Vista box, over the network, the speed is just like it used to be in XP... Very odd indeed.

Example: Inheritance vs Object Composition If you pick a developer off the street and ask him what inheritance

I don't think there will be anything in SP1 that will fix Vista's performance issues. It is just a series of minor bug fixes. It won't stop the freezes and disk-thrashing, or stop Superfetch helping itself to all the RAM. Anyway, SP1 is only due out in Beta some time late on this year and will only be rolled out sometime in 2008. So don't hold your breath.

Dennis Wright, Please refrain from definitive comments without research... "As Mary Jo Foley forecasted, a Windows Vista SP1 drop was made in mid-July. We're hearing, however, the drop was made to a small group of random testers for "pre-beta" testing. Pre-beta testing is usually conducted to test software that is more mature than a first-stab, annihilate-your-machine alpha but doesn't quite implement all the required functionalities to be labeled a true beta. The service pack comes labeled with a build string matching its recently released WDK brother and smells of Server 2008 kernel, which is A Good Thing™ -- 6001.16549(longhorn_sp1beta1.070628-1825). (Thanks C.) Queried Microsoft and beta participants are denying the program's existence, as expected. We'll have to suffer with our malfunctioning Windows Vista installs for just a tad longer. " http://www.winbeta.org/comments.php?shownews=8977

This fix only addresses network transmission. However, my problem from day 1 (11/30/06) hace been local file copy/delete/move. Excruiatingly slow. Well, I discovered this fix on a board & now Vista performs these actions blazingly fast: Open Programs & Features, select Turn Windows Features On or Off, deselect Remote Differential Compression. It will take several minutes for the system to deactivate. Reboot to make sure & try it. Works like a charm!

I found this solution to SLOW file copy/delete/move: Open Programs & Features Select Turn Windows Features On or Off De-select Remote Differential Compression Select OK It will take several minutes for this to be de-activated. Reboot to be sure it takes. Now these operations fly!

Clyde appears to be correct. with Remote Differential Compression = on default option being the problem. I haven't fully tested the result yet, but tried copying one file large file. previously took about 5 minutes to copy 250MB. now it does it in under 7 seconds. thanks!

OK Remote differential compression unchecked Indexing unchecked Windows defender inactivated DFS unchecked According to all cures to apply Unfortunatey still 50 seconds to rename or delete a directory... Nothing found on microsoft. Better install ubuntu.

I tried the "Remote Differential Compression", it did nothing. Copy occurs at 2 MB/sec... SLOW.. The stupid Vista wants me to wait and entire workday to copy 70 gig of files! All you geeks that recommend "turning on the permanstil and reloading the fadoozal" are full of it. The program should work without having to be a programmer or a waster of time. They better fix this!

Try robocopy, it's now built into the OS. Open up a comman prompt, type robocopy. You can get a list of commands which is actually rather extensive, but the syntax is basically: robocopy [source] [destination] (no brackets) Add /MIR if you want to copy all the subdirectories as well. It's fast.

From my experience... the problem with the copying appears to be Vista's handling of compressed files. I was experiencing horrible copy times, not just on network transfers, but locally as well. After a bit of watching to see what was going on, I noticed that Vista does not copy zip files as one file. It actually copies each file seperately, which is a huge performance hit as it unzips and rezips archvies. Search for how to turn off Vista's built in handling of zip files, and try those copies again. I am no longer having the trouble that I was having.

Thanks Bill. Robocopy appears to work for me. 16GB takes 20-odd minutes to transfer on my XP laptop. Vista was going to take 2-3 hours. Awesome. Big thanks to Toshiba and MS for taking my money and giving me this rubbish.

Robocopy copied 11GB to my USB HDD in 18mins. That's more like it.

People, just get a MAC!!!!

I tried Vista when it came out first and dumped it in favour of XP, partly due to poor file operation performance. Now SP1 is out, so I decided to give it another try. Still extremely slow. And I'm talking local file operations. The problem is exacerbated by the seemingly endless prompts about admin rights and UAC. (OK, I'm exagerrating on the "endless" prompts - but it's really irritating! I know what I want my operating system to do!! Just do it!!!) Not to mention the problems I had trying to get Outlook to access my PST file from my XP machine (which I did resolve by the way). So, after a couple of weeks battling with Vista (it really, really seems like a battle!) I'm going back to XP. And I think I'll have a serious look for a flavour of Linux as my future OS. Summary: Vista. Pretty. Useless.

Hello all...I've been hearing and reading about the slow copy issue...I got new sony laptop in February 2008, it came with Vista Ultimate. As you can imagine, I'm moving lots of files, many gigs....I didn't think much of it before but thought I'd check again today. Copy from laptop hard drive (raid 0) to external usb hd....19gb and transfer speed range from 6 - 8 MB/sec, there are 12.4GB left and it says 1 hour 18min remaining, although I realize that time remaining thing usually isn't correct. Anyway, just posting now to give a reference, I haven't installed any fixes...just disabled that RDC option, no speed change with RDC off. Now 11.5GB left and reports 30min 20 sec.....I see it is all over the place.

Thanks for the tip! After disabling the RDC option I went from app 6-7mb/sec to app 18mb/sec. Copy speed multiplied almost by three. Amazing. (If this hadn't worked I would have downgraded to XP... I was fed up with Vistas lack of speed)