Having had the weird problem twice now on the XP notebook I use as my internal server I decided to switch over to a Vista notebook. Roughly the same spec, same RAM etc.

I did a rinse and refresh on both the Vista and the XP machines, nice clean shiny installs and decided this time I'd partition the hard disk into C for programs and D for data.

I'm back to using the XP machine. Copying 2.4Gb of data over to the D drive:

XP:        c7mins
Vista:    c40mins

Speed of opening app and moving around has the same level of disparity.

Roy Lambert

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> I'm back to using the XP machine. Copying 2.4Gb of data over to the D
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D drive as in burning to a DVD ?

If this is just for backups then..........................
Whats it like sending 2.4gb to an external HD ?

> XP: c7mins
> Vista: c40mins
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I will test the speed of sending to my external HD
7 mins seems way high to me ......
Rita

Sorry misread the D part its a partition.
Wow 7 minutes XP 40 miutes Shista
Let me try that here on local XP
2 patitions and then external HD.

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Hi Roy,

Vista did have various file operation slow-downs. Are you using the latest service pack - i think Sp2 is out.

Couple of things that might be worthwhile to try:

Turn off "Remote Differential Compression' if it's on : should be in Control Panel / Programs and features / Turn on or turn off Windows features and uncheck "Remote Differential Compression" if checked.

For over the network copy the "Receive Window Auto-Tuning" can screw things up as well.
Running this from command-line should disable that:

netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

My suggestion is to move to Win7 - i've found it to be a lot more usable OS and what Vista should have been. it will likely be extra cost though unless you have a Technet or MSDN subscription.

Raul

Raul,

<< My suggestion is to move to Win7 - i've found it to be a lot more usable
OS and what Vista should have been. it will likely be extra cost though
unless you have a Technet or MSDN subscription. >>

I'll second that.  I'm very glad that I bypassed Vista on my development
machine.  My new Dell uses Windows 7, and I'm liking it a lot.

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