Copying files is ridiculously slow

[goha007]

I have Windows Vista Home Premium installed on a Dual-Core 2.13GHz PC.
Copying or extracting files (from the same partition) takes a
ridiculous time to complete. For example, when I try to unzip a 85MB
(not a typo, 85MB!) to a directory on the same partition, the Copy
dialog displays "9 Hours and 17 Minutes remaining"!!!

Could this be happening? Could it be that Microsoft didn't catch this
problem? Did they do any testing?

Is there a fix to this annoying (to say the least) issue?

I found some information on the web indicating that un-checking
"remote differential compression" might solve the problem, however,
that didn't cut it for me.

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Paulo_Reb=EAlo?=]

With me it is indeed slower than XP for basic disk operations, such as
extracting zip files and moving files from one partition to another. But
Microsoft says Vista's disk performance is better, as usual... who knows.

 

[Carl G]

This is what I found on vista speed.
Vista is a bunch slower when I copy and paste from my storage drive on my pc
to a external usb hard drive.
I copied a folder 4.74 gig from my internal storage drive to my external USB
hard drive.here are the times it took.
XP = 4min.50 sec.
Vista = 6 min.
that's a lot of difference for a system that is supposed to be better.
Any thoughts on why,every body else having this problem to or is it just my
pc?
thanks

 

[Guest]

ive found that the thing that slows it down a lot is that it checks first to
see how long its going to take, just so it can tell you an accurate time,
trouble is, it can take longer to work out the time than actually doing it
i havent worked out how to disable the checking bit yet, will be a big
diference when i do

 

[Manuel Nonaca]

Hello,

I had this problem transferring large files where the calculating function
reports x days xx hrs when normally copying with XP takes minutes. I did a
Google search but did not find any solution. I was going to do a post on
this NG but after seeing a number of people getting the run around from the
experts saying it was a driver issues, etc. I decided not to post to seek a
solution of my slow file copy transfer! This may or may not help you but
what solved my problem was adding an additional 1G of ram (total 2G now).
This has improved my slow file transfer and I am happier than a clam in high
tide with Vista now!

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we
created them."
----albert einstein

 

[Bill]

I was on a customer's computer today. Program installation was extremely
slow...It reminded me of 700 mhz machine and it was a dual processor..Go
figure. He asked me about installing XP on his machine.

 

[Carl G]

I already have 2 gig of ram and still have the same problem.

 

[GreenWing]

Vista is a bunch slower when I copy and paste from my storage drive on my
pc
to a external usb hard drive.

DO you by chance have a USB printer attached to your USB ports/Hub...???...

I was having a similar issue where USB hard drive IO seemed to be operating
less than .5 speed...I finally figured out that my HP Photo Smart D7360
printer was causing the problem...I disconnected one USB device at a time to
figure this out...When I disconnected the printer, my USB speed better than
doubled (back to normal)...

Greenwing

 

[goha007]

I have 2GIG of RAM already installed on my PC.

I'm considering going back to XP. I do web development on my PC and I
extract/archive files all the time. This problem makes Visa almost
impossible to work with in my case. Today I was updating a plug-in in
my Eclipse environment and it took over 3 hours to download the
update. The exact same update took less than 10 minutes on another
computer on the same network (a P4 running XP).

 

[SysAdminTH]

I have Windows Vista Home Premium installed on a Dual-Core 2.13GHz PC.
Copying or extracting files (from the same partition) takes a
ridiculous time to complete. For example, when I try to unzip a 85MB
(not a typo, 85MB!) to a directory on the same partition, the Copy
dialog displays "9 Hours and 17 Minutes remaining"!!!

Could this be happening? Could it be that Microsoft didn't catch this
problem? Did they do any testing?

Is there a fix to this annoying (to say the least) issue?

I found some information on the web indicating that un-checking
"remote differential compression" might solve the problem, however,
that didn't cut it for me.