Vista rant - transfering files to USB thumb drive

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imported_KuJaX

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I am transferring 120mb of data onto a USB Thumb Drive using Vista. It says estimated time 2 hours and it has already been going for 30 minutes. I know there are many factors such as how fast the USB thumb drive is, but I just did the exact same thing on a Windows XP machine and it took 15 minutes.

WTF, why would it take more than 2hours in Vista when it took 15 minutes in Windows XP?
 
FoBoT

FoBoT

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that isn't Vista's fault, i have moved more than that much faster

don't blame Vista for world hunger either
 
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rise

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i've used vista 32 and now run vista 64 and i sometimes transfer 200+ mb. it has never taken anymore than ~10 minutes.
 
Bateluer

Bateluer

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Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Is your USB port working in 1.1 mode, rather than 2.0? Might need an updated USB driver.
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That was my first thought as well.

Vista does seem to copy files considerably slower than XP though. Its something that MS is supposed to fix in SP1, I believe.
 
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Ricochet

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My Super Talent 4gig thumb drive is not even recognized in Vista and no available driver download off of the OEM website.
 
Fritzo

Fritzo

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You have to keep hitting "Conirm or Deny" messages with each file. That slows it down :)
 
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ric1287

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i run into this problem as well, makes me want to punch the computer in the face.
 
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pulse8

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Originally posted by: KuJaX
Okay, so half of you guys say "don't blame Vista" and the other half say "I have the same problem."
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Only one other person has said they've had the same problem.

I also have Vista and have never had a problem.
 
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JasonCoder

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Just for giggles, temporarily turn off Defender and UAC. If that makes a difference there could be something at issue with the "ownership" of the files you are transferring. If that were the case I'd run a "its mine" command to recursively process the ACLs and such. I had to do this with a harddrive from a previous build.
 
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ppdes

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I've noticed Vista is much slower at copying large file trees around as well. Even worse, sometimes it blows up with "out of memory" errors even though I have 2GB and plenty free.

One thing I have found regarding transfers to USB or network drives, zipping the files up helps a lot more than you'd think just from measuring the total size. Transferring a thousand files takes much longer than transferring one even if the total sizes are the same.
 
Kadarin

Kadarin

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Originally posted by: ppdes
I've noticed Vista is much slower at copying large file trees around as well. Even worse, sometimes it blows up with "out of memory" errors even though I have 2GB and plenty free.

One thing I have found regarding transfers to USB or network drives, zipping the files up helps a lot more than you'd think just from measuring the total size. Transferring a thousand files takes much longer than transferring one even if the total sizes are the same.
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Slashdot link to Vista out of memory problem.
 
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randay

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Originally posted by: Spartan Niner
Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Vista causes world hunger.

:(
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Vista makes little children cry.
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Tears of blood.


OP and anyone else having similiar slowdown problems: How much RAM do you have? try upgrading to at least 2gb, 1 just doesnt cut it.
 
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Chadder007

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Try turning off your Antivirus program temporarily. That made mine go much faster, we use Mcafee.
 
Rumpltzer

Rumpltzer

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I've got Vista Home Premium 32 running on a 3GHz dual core with 2GB and SATA drives.
My USB drive is a 4GB Cruiser.

I can transfer one big file (~400MB) to the drive in about a minute. I tried it once where I had about 500MB separated into about 750 files. That took about 40 minutes.

Transferring from the drive to the computer, though, took about a minute.

I never tried the same thing with XP.
 
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