Copying files takes a long time in win 8. Files are copied slowly. To do this, it was necessary to move, copy and delete files on different partitions of two hard drives

Are you familiar with the situation when copying files from removable media (flash drive, external hard drive) takes a very long time?
Let's try to figure out what could be the reason why files are copied slowly and whether it is possible to somehow speed up this process.

1. First of all, the copying speed depends directly on the flash drive. What do we usually pay attention to when choosing it? Volume, price, manufacturer, appearance. So, flash drives have another important characteristic - data reading speed. Typically, faster devices have a higher price.
Focusing on price is not always correct, and for us reliable way, allowing you to make the right choice - testing a flash drive.
You can check the transfer speed using CrystalDiskMark:

CristalDiskMark - the result of the program

(In the figure, Read is the reading speed in megabytes per second, Write is the writing speed.)

— select a language;
— indicate the number of runs;
- file size;
- and the required disk.
After some time, the program will show the average writing and reading speed.

2. Characteristics of USB ports. The following types of USB connectors are known today:
— USB 1.0 – have low throughput and are found on very old PCs,
— USB 1.1 — the connector is found on computers and laptops manufactured before the mid-2000s,
— USB 2.0 is the most common standard, which, according to manufacturers, allows data transfer at speeds of up to 480 Mbit/s. In fact, the copying speed is much lower than stated.
— USB 3.0 is a high-speed connector (up to 5 Gbps), which is not yet widespread and is found on computers built after 2010.

3. Computer resources are of no small importance. Perhaps the slow copying speed is caused by old hardware, namely insufficient volume random access memory or a low-speed hard drive. In this case, we can advise one thing - the computer needs modernization. In the meantime, you haven’t purchased new things, you can try to speed up copying using the FastCopy program. This program is free and has many supporters and opponents. But I have been convinced more than once that large files are copied much faster using FastCopy.

FastCopy - enable copying acceleration

4. Also, copying speed may be affected by crooked installed drivers for USB 2.0 or BIOS settings. You can check the settings as follows: in the BIOS, select USB 2.0 Controller - enabled. Then in the USB 2.0 Controller Mode menu that appears, set the value to Full(Hi)Speed.
5. One more possible reason– size of copied files. One large file will copy much faster than a folder of the same size with a bunch of small files. In this case, archiving will help: using any archiver, we pack our files into one archive without compression and then copy them.

To do this, it was necessary to move, copy and delete files on different sections of two hard drives.

I installed Windows 7 about 2 years ago, the second OS after XP, but I didn’t use it much. I started using it actively for about six months and now I noticed this glitch.

In short, files are copied and deleted for an incredibly long time. I deleted 2 GB of photos and it took about 2 hours. It’s simply unrealistically long. What is this connected with?

It turned out that this is a common occurrence on Windows 7. The copying speed is actually 3-5 times less than in XP. It turns out that this is specifically done in the default settings of Win 7. Why was this done? Unclear. As always, only in words the developers are doing well, but in reality...

I had to Google it. It turned out that a lot of time is spent on copying and deleting due to calculations that occur as a result of the built-in function, the task of which is to continuously compare the minimum amount of information of a particular file with the same file, but already transferred.

They claim that this is done to speed up copying. Hmm, good “acceleration”, you can’t say anything.

Look, the optimizers suck. Take this Gates and hit his face on the asphalt. Instead of moving forward and improving the system, they complicate everything and Windows 7 works worse than XP in some cases.

Fortunately, all this crap can be treated. And it’s quite easy to treat if you know what to configure and where. You need to click on the "Start" button at the bottom left, and then click on "Control Panel". There will be no problems here. Next, we do it as in the screenshots.

Uncheck the box

Click "Programs", then "Programs and Features", then "Turn Windows features on or off". The screenshots indicate where to click. Afterwards, a window will appear in which you need to scroll down and uncheck the “Remote differential compression” checkbox. Click OK. And we wait for changes to happen.

After that everything became much faster. It feels the same as on XP.

I didn’t notice such nonsense on Win XP: everything is copied and deleted quickly. I’ve never installed Vista, so I don’t know, but most likely, if there is the same problem there, it will be treated like on 7.

By the way, in the window where you unchecked the “Remote differential compression” item, you can experiment and try to uncheck some other services, it will suddenly help.

The problem with slow file copying we solved it, but Windows 7 is full of mysteries. For example, I am still not able to configure the headphones from the front panel system unit, which on XP can be done in one go. On XP, I put the PC to sleep at night. On 7, no matter what I do, it doesn’t work. All manipulations with hibernation mode, etc. do not bring success. Recently I had to solve a problem with .

By creating a hemorrhoidal, unintuitive settings system in Win 7, Microsoft screwed themselves, because besides Windows there are other solutions and people have a choice. And people, by a strange coincidence, love things that are understandable and easy to manage. There is something to think about for the guys from Microsoft.

Three operating systems on a computer, possible or not? .

Tell me why I feel like this slowly tofiles are copied from one hard drive partition to another, not to mention copying files to a flash drive. It seems to me that the speed is no higher than in operating system Vista. I have to work a lot with photographs and I can’t move one large folder anywhere, the copying stops in the middle of the process and hangs indefinitely, the most important thing is that reinstalling the seven did not solve the issue, on a clean system without programs the files were copied a little faster. On the forums, someone says something, and most importantly, they can’t offer anything other than Total Commander. Downloading files over the network suits me. Tell me, how can I improve the situation in my case?

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Files are copied slowly

Yes, there is such a problem, a long time ago, when we were just testing the released beta version, many people talked about it, but then they stopped. And in fact, Windows 7 is quite files are copied slowly from one hard drive partition to another, and to portable media a little faster than in Vista. File managers The issue is not completely resolved and this is primarily due to increased security in Windows 7.

• Firstly, it’s no secret that the built-in security features of Windows 7 greatly influence file copying, namely control accounts, because it checks almost everything that happens in the operating system.
• Suddenly the file you are copying does not belong to you at all or you do not have the rights to change it or work with it. Secondly, the explorer directly involved in copying files has a very difficult task, because the seven has an Aero interface. Personally, I myself tried to disable it partially and completely in the Performance Options and was convinced that when you disable some effects, the performance generally increases, you can read here.

The opinion has been expressed more than once on the Internet thatslow minetransferring filesmay be affected by the effect enabled in Performance Options -Show thumbnails instead of icons, since your operating system needs to display its thumbnail instead of a simple file icon, I agree with this opinion, but in general I consider this effect convenient and I have it enabled.

As for your inability to copy a folder with photos or movies, think about whether these files are currently being used by another program, for example a torrent client, close it and try copying again.

One of my friends kept all his junk in one large folder, these were files of various formats: AVI, XML, docx, iso, jpg. The folder was very large and everything in it was mixed up, there were films that were not fully downloaded, and so on. He even himself sometimes changed the extensions of video files as an experiment when he could not open them, for example, in the program he needed, naturally all this chaos, Windows Explorer 7 couldn’t stand copying this entire folder onto a portable hard drive

Most people begin to realize that something is wrong with Windows when they try to copy or move files and see a small green window showing the progress of the process. It would be nice to have this window on the screen for a minute or two while you copy a large amount of data, but does it really take three minutes to move one small file, or all eight minutes to delete another file? A tiny “green ribbon of death” may be a harbinger of an Explorer window crashing

This is one of two "green ribbons of death" in Windows 7, the other being a progress bar that appears at the top of the Explorer window in the address/path field. So what's going on, you ask? It turns out that Explorer takes so long to copy, move, or delete files for several reasons, some of which are actually justified. (This problem was much worse in Vista, but remained in Windows 7.)

First, File Explorer takes time to pre-scan the files and folders you're going to copy, move, etc., and check for possible conflicts, duplicate files, or security issues that require user intervention. That's why you see this nifty confirmation window for 34 conflicts only once, and not 34 separate confirmations that you had to receive in XP or more earlier versions Windows.

If you copy media files (such as photos, videos, PDF documents), you'll see preview thumbnails that may help. You can even right-click directly on the thumbnail in the window if you want to work with the files without pausing the operation. Moreover, you can choose to copy or move the file without replacing the original, but with renaming the file.

The disadvantage is that when preparing the confirmation window, Explorer must delay the operation with the file. Depending on what he finds, this could take forever. One of the main reasons for the delay is a side effect of the user account control system, the very security “feature”.

which turns the screen into a black square, asking your permission to make a change. Naturally, File Explorer must check each file you copy to make sure you have permission to copy it, and then check the destination to make sure you have permission to put the file there. Some ways to remove these restrictions are described in the "Managing UAC" section.

In the same way, if you copy a file over a network, Windows is required to do some reconnaissance to ensure security, and depending on the speed network connection, this may take quite a long time.

But it's not just the security check that's to blame for this feature's poor performance; There is also the problem of sketches. As described in the "Green Ribbon of Death" section, there are several things that can cause Explorer to freeze or even crash, and if one of them affects the copy of Explorer you're using, the selection window could just hang on the screen for ages . Once you fix the problems, copy, move, or delete operations will be much faster.

Cloud backup and Microsoft's SkyDrive sync service is built into Windows 8.1 and is a really good way to access your files and documents on devices with limited storage capacity, such as tablets and Ultrabooks.

The way it works is that the service downloads indexes and thumbnail images for all the files you store on SkyDrive to HDD Your PC. These files take up almost no space on your PC, since even if you have saved 100 GB of files in SkyDrive, you can only save pointers on your PC.

Access SkyDrive apps in file explorer or from the application.

Clue. Some apps that provide access to PC files also provide access to SkyDrive.

When you open a file in SkyDrive, it is quickly downloaded from the cloud and saved on your PC, as long as you have an active Internet connection, of course. When you save this file to your computer, any changes you make to it are synced to the cloud. This is a great way to avoid padding hard drive PC files that you will not open on it.

You can enable file saving (and syncing) to SkyDrive in PC Settings by opening SkyDrive and then Files. Here you can toggle the "Save documents to SkyDrive by default" option. This option will enable full synchronization with SkyDrive, and from now on, any file you create or save will automatically sync to the cloud, creating a secure file backup.

Saving a file to SkyDrive.

Windows 8.1, when synchronizing with SkyDrive, by default saves files from the folder on your PC C:\[Users]\[Username]\ to the folder C:\[Users]\[Username]\SkyDrive, where it loads pointers to your files. There are no direct options to change the location to another partition or hard drive, not in the PC settings or in the control panel.

If you want to sync your photos, SkyDrive has an option ➤ Files section in PC settings that allows you to enable them automatic download. This option works regardless of full file synchronization and includes three different quality options for uploaded photos.

Use Microsoft SkyDrive to share files.

Sometimes you may want to share files saved on SkyDrive with other people. This can be done on the SkyDrive.com website. Right-click on the desired file(s) or folder(s) and then left-click on the link at the top of the screen " General access". Next, a dialog box will appear in which you will be asked who you want to give