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Windows 7 Network Copy

Received my Thinkpad from Lenovo repairs earlier this week (vga output issue). A couple of minutes later the Windows 7 installer was running.

After all this time I assumed MS would have fixed my biggest gripe with Vista. Network copy performance. Rest assured... it's even slower in Windows 7.

update: Copying large (200 MB) files fails with the error "Make sure you are connected to the network and try again". It looks my Windows 7 adventure will be a short one.

update2: Updated the wireless network driver (this version) as suggested in the comments. Still not working, not even with Robocopy.

update3: Turned of autotuning with "netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled", don't forget to reboot. Fixed! Copying files over the networks is still sloooooooow.

Posted: Mar 24 2009, 05:45 PM by p.gielens | with 7 comment(s)
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Darren Kopp said:

don't have any problem here. have transfered many iso files w/ out problem. running on a gigabit network though.

# March 25, 2009 2:19 AM

Thijs said:

Did you try updating the network device drivers?

# March 25, 2009 3:41 AM

Chris said:

That isn't all that is slow. Unziping files is also slow. Copying from one drive to another drive is also slower than XP, even those my Windows 7 installation is on 10k rpm drives and my XP is on 5400 rpm drives.

# March 25, 2009 9:39 AM

Peter said:

I had issues with the default network driver; after updating it to the one from the manufacturer all the problems went away.

# March 25, 2009 12:27 PM

Mike said:

Severe issues with network copy.  Anything over 8 gigs eventually comes to a grinding halt forcing a manual reset of the machine, which on a machine with a RAID leads to even more problems.   I absolutely love the OS so far, just some core functionality needs to get cleaned up.     As a note though, copying from a Vista / Server 2008 machine or higher to Win 7 works perfect, but communicating with XP / 2003 / 2000 is where it bogs down.

# April 21, 2009 9:31 AM

happy_user said:

here's the solution:

www.howtogeek.com/.../fix-problems-with-copying-large-files-in-windows-vista

# May 25, 2009 9:17 AM

Nicola said:

This solution "www.howtogeek.com/.../fix-problems-with-copying-large-files-in-windows-vista" not working.

I've the same problem on when i copy fined from/to external USB drive on Windows 7..... The final solution are this: www.techsupportforum.com/.../381047-solved-problem-transfering-large-files-usb.html (see the last post of Radiux).

Ciao

Nicola

# September 9, 2009 11:48 AM
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