Vista rant - transfering files to USB thumb drive

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Vista causes world hunger.

Vista makes little children cry.

Vista killed my father.

FAAAAAAATHER!!!!!!!

Vista runs over your dog.

 

[legoman666]

Originally posted by: randay

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Vista causes world hunger.

Vista makes little children cry.

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.

if you need 2gb of ram to copy files to a flash drive, that's reason enough to never use Vista.

to the OP: there was a patch released that was supposed to fix this, though I don't think it made it to widnows update. A quick search on Google reveals this: http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=938979

(google found it easily on microsofts site while I couldn't find it immediately using M$'s search on their own damn website)

 

[Captante]

Vista is considerably slower then XP at just about everything, however 2 hours to transfer 120mb's does indicate that somthing more is going on here.

Also doesn't this really belong in the OS forum or maybe genral hardware?

 

[cker]

I've also heard that file copy performance issues will be addressed in or around SP1 (fixes should be available in the normal hotfix channel as well as the SP install)

I had slow copies as well, especially to/from USB drives and network shares.

 

[Leros]

I'm sure it has been addressed before, but how can a file copy be slow?

Read a byte, write a byte, repeat. I can't imagine why any security measure would even need to be taken. I see no reason for the algorithm to get complicated.

 

[nerp]

Running Kapersky? I know everyone has a hardon for that program but it's cruddy memory usage patterns are what cause the out of memory bug when moving large files. It's also known to destroy copy performance. There should be fixes out now for it anyway.

 

[Canterwood]

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Vista causes world hunger.

Vista makes little children cry.

Vista makes grown men cry.

 

[stash]

Originally posted by: nerp
Running Kapersky? I know everyone has a hardon for that program but it's cruddy memory usage patterns are what cause the out of memory bug when moving large files. It's also known to destroy copy performance. There should be fixes out now for it anyway.

The bug is in Windows, not Kaspersky. Kaspersky just happens to be doing a lot of file operations that involve extended attributes, which is what causes the out of memory error. It can happen without any AV installed.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: stash

Originally posted by: nerp
Running Kapersky? I know everyone has a hardon for that program but it's cruddy memory usage patterns are what cause the out of memory bug when moving large files. It's also known to destroy copy performance. There should be fixes out now for it anyway.

The bug is in Windows, not Kaspersky. Kaspersky just happens to be doing a lot of file operations that involve extended attributes, which is what causes the out of memory error. It can happen without any AV installed.

Whaaaaaaaaa...? /rubs eyes :shocked:

j/k stash

 

[stash]

Thought that might wake some people up

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Vista is ferpect! Anyone who disagrees is a troll! :|

Yours Truly,
AT Forums

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: stash

Originally posted by: nerp
Running Kapersky? I know everyone has a hardon for that program but it's cruddy memory usage patterns are what cause the out of memory bug when moving large files. It's also known to destroy copy performance. There should be fixes out now for it anyway.

The bug is in Windows, not Kaspersky. Kaspersky just happens to be doing a lot of file operations that involve extended attributes, which is what causes the out of memory error. It can happen without any AV installed.

I stand corrected.

I just saw mountains of people complaining about this and saw that the common thread was Kapersky. I still believe that it's a common culprit for poor disk i/o since I've seen quite a few people report that disabling/uninstalling it removes the speed issue. Not to mention I don't experience the slow copy times on both my boxes and I'm not running Kapersky.

 

[Crassus]

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

Go to the "Manual Driver Install" dialog and point Vista to "C:\Windows\System32" (or wherever your Vista copy happens to sit). You'll need to do this for every one of the three times a driver install dialog shows up, then you're good to go.