Back before I did the split of WinExtra so that much of my Social Media writings ended up over at Shooting at Bubbles (which still has a lot of my Windows related posts) one of my more popular posts was about the big headache that copying files over a network with Vista was. While that has improved to a large degree in Windows 7 it still has some more room to improve.
This hint from Windows 7 Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Solutions
Turn off auto-tuning (Page 93)
One of the things that can slow file copying to a network folder is that Windows requests constant updates from the other side to keep its view up to date. To turn this off, open a Command Prompt window in Administrator mode, and type this command
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
and press Enter. You’ll have to restart Windows for the change to take effect, but thereafter, copying files over the network should be much faster. Of course, you might want to press the F5 key more frequently to refresh the remote folder, but you can do that when the file copying is done.
To undo the change(re-enable auto-tuning), type this command:
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal
and press Enter.
Hopefully that is of help to you.
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