Why is file copying so friggan slow??

Ive noticed this with Copying large files between drives, up to 1 hr to copy
1.4gb from C: to D:


Even worse than this is copying and pasting from a ZIP file, can take 15-20
mins from a Zip file that extracted, is barely larger than 2mb! I defaulted
all zip's to Winrar and its hardly much better


Im running Vista Ultimare on a Dual Core 3.0ghz with 1.5gb of Ram. Is there
a cure? (apart from re-install XP)

Ooh and further to this

if I copy a file using command prompt.

why does it use 64mb of system memory to do so?


"Jarrod Henderson" <> wrote in message
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> Ive noticed this with Copying large files between drives, up to 1 hr to
> copy 1.4gb from C: to D:
>
>
> Even worse than this is copying and pasting from a ZIP file, can take
> 15-20 mins from a Zip file that extracted, is barely larger than 2mb! I
> defaulted all zip's to Winrar and its hardly much better
>
>
> Im running Vista Ultimare on a Dual Core 3.0ghz with 1.5gb of Ram. Is
> there a cure? (apart from re-install XP)
>
>

Hello Jarrod,

Check if this patch is installed on your machine:
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=938979

Best regards

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> Ive noticed this with Copying large files between drives, up to 1 hr
> to copy 1.4gb from C: to D:
>
> Even worse than this is copying and pasting from a ZIP file, can take
> 15-20 mins from a Zip file that extracted, is barely larger than 2mb!
> I defaulted all zip's to Winrar and its hardly much better
>
> Im running Vista Ultimare on a Dual Core 3.0ghz with 1.5gb of Ram. Is
> there a cure? (apart from re-install XP)
>

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:09:03 +1300, "Jarrod Henderson"
<> wrote:

>Ive noticed this with Copying large files between drives, up to 1 hr to copy
>1.4gb from C: to D:
>
>
>Even worse than this is copying and pasting from a ZIP file, can take 15-20
>mins from a Zip file that extracted, is barely larger than 2mb! I defaulted
>all zip's to Winrar and its hardly much better
>
>
>Im running Vista Ultimare on a Dual Core 3.0ghz with 1.5gb of Ram. Is there
>a cure? (apart from re-install XP)
>

I've also noticed some very odd behaviour copying files from one PC to
another. Even though the 2 PC's are connected via a fast ethernet
switch and both report they are connected at 100Mb, the max transfer
Vista reckons is around 9.5Mb??

cheers,
Len

Em Segunda, 10 de Dezembro de 2007 20:09, Jarrod Henderson escreveu:

> Ive noticed this with Copying large files between drives, up to 1 hr to
> copy 1.4gb from C: to D:
>
>
> Even worse than this is copying and pasting from a ZIP file, can take
> 15-20
> mins from a Zip file that extracted, is barely larger than 2mb! I
> defaulted all zip's to Winrar and its hardly much better
>
>
> Im running Vista Ultimare on a Dual Core 3.0ghz with 1.5gb of Ram. Is
> there a cure? (apart from re-install XP)

don't you wait for any truth explanation... people arround here are extreme
ocupied on showing that Vista a the best OS ever, so you got to be a member
of an colective alucination or there are a lot of broken HDs out there...

there are problems with copying and deleting files in vista, but you are not
allowed to talk about that, and we are not allowed to read it...

so sorry i can't help you, i myself spent 4 hours looking at vista copying
16Gb of files to a external usb drive... but i don't wanna talk about it.

best regards

-if you are copying from one partition to the other on the same physical
drive, it will be slower than copying to a separate physical drive, but
it should definitely not take 1 hr to copy 1.4 GB, so something is
wrong.

-Run disk diagnostics with the software from your HDD manufacturer

-Run chkdsk/f

-run antivirus/malware scans to ensure your system is clean

-check if your HDD has reverted to PIO mode..in case of repeated CRC or
other errors, windows defaults HDDS from UDMA to PIO mode.

-Defrag your drives. If your files are fragmented, it will increase
copy/read/write times. A nicely defragmented drive will work much
better overall for everything.


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Em Segunda, 10 de Dezembro de 2007 20:59, barracuda escreveu:

> -Defrag your drives. If your files are fragmented, it will increase
> copy/read/write times. A nicely defragmented drive will work much
> better overall for everything.

Doesn't vista have a new and powerfull defrag that runs when needed?

This is the XXI century and you are still defrag disks... cromagnons...

ArameFarpado wrote:

> Em Segunda, 10 de Dezembro de 2007 20:59, barracuda escreveu:
>
>> -Defrag your drives. If your files are fragmented, it will increase
>> copy/read/write times. A nicely defragmented drive will work much
>> better overall for everything.
>
> Doesn't vista have a new and powerfull defrag that runs when needed?
>
> This is the XXI century and you are still defrag disks... cromagnons...

Vista is still using the old NT kernel. So what do you expect from
MickeyMouse? Innovation? If they can't purchase it, they can't get it.

Cheers.

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Em Segunda, 10 de Dezembro de 2007 21:47, NoStop escreveu:

>> This is the XXI century and you are still defrag disks... cromagnons...
>
> Vista is still using the old NT kernel. So what do you expect from
> MickeyMouse? Innovation? If they can't purchase it, they can't get it.

They are rich... why can't they purchase it?

"NoStop" <> wrote in message
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> ArameFarpado wrote:
>
>> Em Segunda, 10 de Dezembro de 2007 20:59, barracuda escreveu:
>>
>>> -Defrag your drives. If your files are fragmented, it will increase
>>> copy/read/write times. A nicely defragmented drive will work much
>>> better overall for everything.
>>
>> Doesn't vista have a new and powerfull defrag that runs when needed?
>>
>> This is the XXI century and you are still defrag disks... cromagnons...
>
> Vista is still using the old NT kernel. So what do you expect from
> MickeyMouse? Innovation? If they can't purchase it, they can't get it.
>
> Cheers.

On the other hand, we get numb nuts like NoStop! Don't like Vista, move to
Ubuntu and STFU!

Just FYI

>
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