December 17, 2007
Vista SP1 (RC) Copy/Move Fun

So fellow vista users... you know how copying or moving files around, especially to/from network shares is worse than the smell from a sweaty wookie's pits? Well, acording to WinExtra, Vista Service Pack 1 RC may not bring a solution :(

From the article:


Well it would seem that the Service Pack hasn’t made one bit of difference to the problems I was experiencing despite what had been listed in their published changelog that Long Zheng was good enough to publish. I realize that some will say that this is just something I am experiencing and must be related to my setup. The problem with that wishful thinking is that it is just that - wishful thing - especially considering that more than few forums around the web are reporting exactly the same; or very similar, problems.

I installed the hotfix a while back and performance has gotten 100x better than it was from the default install, which saved Vista from being rolled back to XP, however the performance is still pretty crappy compared to my linux box copying the same files to/from the same network drive (a Linux system running Samba). No, I'm not going to turn my fileserver into a vista box to get the (alleged) benefit of Vista-to-Vista copies :)

All I can say is I hope that Steven is exaggerating or that some changes happen between RC and the final release sometime next year.





Posted by Arcterex at December 17, 2007 10:15 PM
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I have been working with Vista since the very first availale beta and upgraded from a full fresh install not an XP to Vista "upgrade" but I didn't notice the problem until I set up the media machine for my wife but when I strated trying to move large video files I started experiencing it.

Now I've been around these machines for a very long time and have worked with enough home networks to know what I am doing (helps have an A+ cert) but this one drove me crazy and really did hope that SP1 RC1 would fix it as the publish changelog from MS said some network fixes had been made.

But for me at least it didn't make any difference I still had the problem when trying to move or copy large video files. For others ... well YMMV


Posted by: Steven Hodson on December 17, 2007 11:26 PM
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