Vista SP1 RC1 does not fix slow file transfer issues
By Jonathan Schlaffer
Those of you that have installed the RC1 (Release Candidate 1) of Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1) may have noticed that some areas are fixed, entirely new things are broken and some things just remain the same, like the slow file transfer issues over a network which is still present.
Don’t get me wrong, Vista SP1 RC1 does fix some issues that have plagued Vista since it released, the slow shutdown, resume from hibernate/sleep are all fixed. There are other speed increases as well but perhaps are not so noticeable by the average user with the proof in artificial benchmarks.
Those artificial benchmarks have been called into question and may not represent real world scenarios but until something better comes along that’s what we’re all going to have to deal with.
What has not been fixed in Vista is annoying to anyone who wants to transfer a large file(s) over a LAN connection from one computer to another it is exceedingly slow as in get up from your desk, go out to lunch, eat, take a nap and then maybe just maybe it will have finished.
If you thought it was bad in the vanilla version of Vista, Microsoft actually managed to make the issue worse in Vista SP1 RC1.
Gizmodo writes that transferring a 1.37GB folder containing about 2600 items took just over 3.5 minutes, Vista without the service pack took a almost leisurely 13 minutes to complete the transfer with Vista SP1 RC1 deciding that it didn’t like the 15,000RPM drive installed in the computer took even longer to complete the operation at 20 seconds shy of 16 minutes.
The only thing to say is that if you are completely into transferring files over a network then Vista is not for you.
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