How To Fix Problems Copying and Moving Large Files In Windows Vista

April 23rd, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

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Tags: Copying, PC, Windows, Windows Vista

Although Windows Vista is a major improvement over Windows XP, there is one particular bug that has really upset me which is how slowly it moves or deletes files. In Windows XP there were no problems moving big files. However, with Windows Vista if you move big files even on the same drive there is a long pause while it calculates how long it will take and the actual move takes forever, whereas on XP it is ‘instanteneous’.

Luckily, the How To Geek has discovered what the problem is and has come up with the solution for moving and copying large files in Vista. The problem is because of the new auto-tuning network. Once Vista’s auto-tuning network is turned off, then the issue of moving files goes away.

To Turn off Auto-Tuning:

1. press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to open the Command Prompt. Choose run as admin

type in: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

2. Reboot

If you have any problems, then to turn auto-tuning back on type the following in Command Prompt:

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

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   Comment by deeesseee on 24 April 2007:

   Is it possible to do this with a registry tweak?
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   Comment by Ido Perelmutter on 24 April 2007:

   This is pretty funny. Didn’t Bill Gates say that the command prompt is obsolete about a million years ago?
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   Comment by Edward Griffin on 24 April 2007:

   Wow! It really does make a difference. I can now move my large AVI files around my hard disk instantly. I have no idea why it spent so long calculating the time remaining before.
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