Slow file transfer windows 7

No joy. I'd also tried booting into safe mode ie, no sense in blaming Adobe, Norton, etc! I'm pretty sure that a lot of other people aren't experiencing this problem and aren't narrowing in on the 'network' part of this issue soon enough.

Some of the commonly proposed fixes disabling thumbnails, etc probably do improve the results for some people under some scenarios, but only because they reduce the amount of network traffic I tried many of the proposed solutions here including exiting home group and disabling the Large send loadoff but nothing worked. I happened to open my firefox on the receiving computer the vista computer that I am copying the files to and when it was downloading some firefox update from the internet, the local file transfer rate went skyrocketing simultaneously.

I thought, "that's strange. I thought the competing bandwidth would slow down the transfer even more", but the opposite was true. So I did a little test, I opened firefox, started watching some youtube vidoes on the receiving computer and at the same time transferred large files over. Lo and behold, the problem solved. That's 20x faster. How can this be? Perhaps someone with more tech experience can look into this and find some explanation for it. Because it's the last thing I expected.

I just wanted more speed to pass all my files from my old system XP to my new one windows 7 , my speed was 2. I've had this issue of "slow erratic file copy" over the network for a couple of months, still trying to resolve.

Symptons: Stuck on "calculating" screen The only workaround that seems to work is by temporarily disabling the internet connection on the PC where files are being pulled from.

Tried this on all 4 PC's running windows 8 on my network. Weird but it works for me. Still would like to know why this happens or what is causing it. Just to double-check, I re-enabled the above commands except 'autotuninglevel' and rebooted, tested again and found myself back on the slow transfer speeds I've since disabled them again and slow transfer are fixed. What the problem was, is I have Gigabit exclusively internally and two of my computers did NOT have that enabled.

Taking your advice first, I disabled on the one PC that is was and my whole intranet ground to a halt almost. Robert Seward- Sr. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in.

United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Networking. Sign in to vote. Hi Just bought and installed Win7 Ultimate 64bit on my desktop pc. All quite wonderfull so far :.

However I have major performance issues with network file transfer for backup. My home server runs WinXP Pro 32bit. Facts : Network : All uses ethernet cables, only. NO Wifi, at all. Linksys router. Use SyncToy to copy files - no improvement 8. Googled for hours on end and attempted x number of other suggested fixes - no improvement Questions: 1.

Does anyone know if this is a known problem for: Nvidia nForce drivers Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Other 2. Are there a fix underways? Does anyone have any suggestions for fixes I might try or an actual solution? Last fact: Im desperate and frustrated :S.

Kind Regards Christian Mikkelsen. Saturday, October 24, PM. Try RichCopy. It's not a fix for the problem but you might get better throughput. Sunday, October 25, PM. Wow thx Thomas. I've been using Robocopy for a long time now, but this here is definitly a big improvement and better alternative by the looks of it.

Im digging into it as speak, thx a mil :. Hi Just a followup. I reinstalled Windows from scratch with drivers, keeping an ekstra eye on the installation order and boom everything is working top notch. Guess I must have made some kind of error during the initial installation or a fix in either a driver or windows have been released.

Anyhow I'm a happy guy with a good transfer rate again. Using both Robocopy and RichCopy for backup now :. Kind regards Christian Mikkelsen.

Wednesday, October 28, PM. Tried uninstalling AVG Free - no improvement Disabled firewall - no improvement Tried downgrading to nForce drivers from version Tried copying files using the free version of Total Commander - no improvement Thoughts: Should I try installing Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit instead? Anyone who can help me out :? I have tried disabling actually completely uninstalling my anti virus AVG Free with no result.

Have just attempted: Im running a DualCore Intel E 3. Thx for the suggestion, I will try using the Windows 7 disc now and write back afterwards. I tried by booting but it made no difference :. Thx though for the suggestion. Since you seemed to have covered a good bit a troubleshooting, the only other thing I can suggest off the top of my head is trying a different NIC if you have one available.

Maybe Windows 7 is being tempermental with the Nvidia. Don't think I have that option, but I'll have to look through my old stuff first :. Just keeps bugging me that everything else seems to run smoothly, browsing via network, remote desktop, etc, but just not file transfers :S. Tried the FTP without any luck.

Also tried copying via apps like GBridge, since the RDP seems to run smoothly, but it gave the same result, nada! Im going to do a fresh install of Win7 Ultimate 64 Bit, to give it one last shot, keeping an extra eye on the driver installation sequence and hope for the best. I believe it to be either: a. The nForce drivers from nvidia using newest Some secret limitation "feature" in Windows 7 Ultimate which is not functioning prober Will write back if I find a solution.

Good to know. We will probably never know what caused the orogonal problem. I am glad it is OK now. Rey Bel1, the symptoms are the same with many small files or one large one. I finally got it fixed! The instructions in this post fixed it. Wow the admin hid my post which was a video especially made to help you to troubleshoot the problem.

Or go here and use the fix it function. When you select a property the current choice appears in the dropdown at right, and the dropdown has your other choices. I have wasted a whole day trying to sort this out. Please advise how I can fix this Microsoft, it is a very widespread problem Thanks. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit.

Rey Bel1 Microsoft Agent. Hi, The speed when transferring data through network may vary depending on the size of each files. Choose the radio button " Better Performance ". USB 3. It is the latest and most enhanced port. The older version had only 4 pin connectors but this latest version has 9 pin connectors. It supports transfer rate up to 5GB per second. Step 3: Click on the small arrow next to the Universal Serial Bus controller section and expand it.

Step 4: There is an entry named USB root hub. For some reason, if you have formatted your hard drive with the FAT32 file system, most probably you will find that you will not be able to copy large files to that drive.

Do not scratch your head, I will show you the best way to do this. If you do not have very much important data then this method is the best. Just reformat the drive. Sometimes, the computer fails to recognize the device that you insert into the port, and if it recognizes it may fail to work.

To solve this kind of issue, you need to update you USB drivers. Glad to see you have not been duped into using a Registry Cleaner as they so often do more harm than good. Then click on the link again.

Close your browser and double click on this icon on your desktop: You will then see the screen below, click on the Scan button as indicated , accept any prompts that appear and allow it to run, it may take several minutes to complete, when it is done click on the Clean button, accept any prompts that appear and allow the system to reboot. Double click on the icon to run it it appears as a dark grey dustbin. For Windows 7 and Vista right click the icon and select Run as Administrator.

When the window opens click on Start. It will close all running programs and clear the desktop icons. When complete you may be asked to reboot, if so accept the request and your PC will reboot automatically. SCAN 3 Please download RKill There are three buttons to choose from with different names on, select the first one and save it to your desktop. Double-click on the Rkill desktop icon to run the tool. A black DOS box will briefly flash and then disappear.

This is normal and indicates the tool ran successfully. A log pops up at the end of the run. Please post this in your next reply. If you do not see the black box flash on the screen delete the icon from the desktop and go back to the link for the download, select the next button and try to run the tool again, continue to repeat this process using the remaining buttons until the tool runs.

You will find further links if you scroll down the page with other names, try them one at a time. If the tool does not run from any of the links provided, please let me know. Install the program, run it and let it update.

If you already have Malwarebytes launch the program. Select Perform full scan and click on the Scan button. When the scan completes click on Show Results. If items are detected it will stay on the Scanner window and you will see Objects detected: 1 the number may be higher.

Click on OK and close the window. Trusted Advisor. Joined May 12, Messages 84, Hi Mark, Help!!! Please advise of what to do, thanks. Please post the log as requested and then I will be able to see what ADWCleaner has done, there was no need to uninstall it and it certainly won't cause any corruption.

I also need to see the other logs requested irrespective of any regular scans that you run. I get presented with the screen shot and can Scan, check report save report as you requested and use the Clean command. Any hints on how to save it to desktop?