Long copying of win 8 files. Files are copied slowly. To do this, it was necessary to move, copy and delete files on different sections 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 the 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 - the speed of reading data. Usually, faster devices have a higher price.
Focusing on the price is not always right, and for us, a reliable way to make the right choice is to test the flash drive.
You can check the transfer speed with CrystalDiskMark:

CristalDiskMark - the result of the program

(In the figure, Read is the read speed in megabytes per second, Write is the write speed.)

- select the language;
- indicate the number of runs;
- file size;
- and the desired disk.
After a while, the program will show the average write and read speed.

2. Characteristics of USB ports. To date, the following types of USB connectors are known:
- USB 1.0 - have a low bandwidth and are found on very old PCs,
- USB 1.1 - the connector is found on computers and laptops released before the middle of the 2000s,
- USB 2.0 is the most common standard that allows, according to manufacturers, data transfer at speeds up to 480 Mbps. In fact, the copying speed is much lower than stated.
- USB 3.0 is a high-speed connector (up to 5 Gb / s), which is still not widespread enough and is found on computers assembled after 2010.

3. Computer resources are of no small importance. Perhaps the slow copy speed is caused by an old hardware, namely insufficient RAM or a low-speed hard drive. In this case, one thing can be advised - the computer needs modernization. In the meantime, you have not bought 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 repeatedly seen that large files are copied using FastCopy much faster.

FastCopy - enable copy acceleration

4. Also, the copy speed can be affected by incorrectly 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. Another possible reason is the size of the 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.

Windows 7 was installed about 2 years ago, the second OS after XP, but I didn't use it much. About half a year I began to use it actively and now I noticed this glitch.

In short, it takes an incredibly long time to copy and delete files. I deleted 2 GB of photos and it took 2 hours. It's just unrealistically long. What is it connected with?

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

I had to google. 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, whose task is to continuously compare the minimum amount of information of a particular file with it, but already transferred.

They assure that this is done to speed up copying. Hmm, good "acceleration", you will not say anything.

Well, shitty optimizers. Take this Gates and muzzle on the asphalt. Instead of going ahead and improving the system, they make things more complicated and Windows 7 performs worse than XP in some cases.

Fortunately, all this garbage is treated. And it is treated quite simply, if you know what and where to set up. 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, do as in the screenshots.

We remove the daw

Click "Programs", then "Programs and Features", then "Turn Windows features on or off". The screenshots show where to click. After that, a window will appear in which you need to scroll down and uncheck the box "Remote differential compression". Press OK. And we are waiting for the changes to take place.

After that, things got a lot smoother. Feels the same as on XP.

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

By the way, in the window where the "Remote differential compression" checkbox was unchecked, you can experiment and try to uncheck some other services, it will suddenly come in handy.

problem with slow file copying we decided, but Windows 7 is full of mysteries. For example, I am still not able to set up the operation of the headphones from the front panel of the system unit, which on XP is done once or twice. On XP, I put the PC to sleep overnight. On 7-ke, no matter what I do, it doesn’t work out. All manipulations with the hibernation mode, etc. do not bring success. Recently I had to solve a problem with .

By creating a hemorrhoids, non-intuitive system of settings in Win 7, Microsoft has planted a pig for themselves, because, besides Windows, there are other solutions and people have a choice. And people, by a strange coincidence, love things that are clear and easy to manage. There is something to think about the guys from Microsoft.

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

Tell me why I'm like this slowly tofiles are being copied from one hard disk partition to another, I'm not talking about copying files to a USB flash drive. It seems to me that the speed is no higher than in the Vista operating system. I have to work a lot with photos and I can’t move one large folder anywhere, copying breaks off in the middle of the process and hangs indefinitely, most importantly, reinstalling the seven didn’t solve the issue, on a clean system without programs, copying files was a little faster. On the forums, someone says something, and most importantly, apart from Total Commander, they cannot offer anything. Here is downloading files over the network, it suits me. Can you tell me how I can improve my situation?

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Files copying 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 actually in Windows 7 quite files copying slowly from one hard drive partition to another, and even to portable media, a little faster than in Vista. File managers do not quite solve the issue, and this is primarily due to the increase in security in Windows 7.

• Firstly, it's no secret that Windows 7's built-in security tools strongly affect file copying, namely user account control, 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 modify it and work with it. Secondly, the explorer involved directly in copying files has a very difficult task, because the seven has an Aero interface. Personally, I myself tried to turn it off partially and completely in the Performance Options and made sure that when you turn off some effects, the performance generally increases, you can read here.

It has been said over and over on the Internet thatslow minefile editingmay affect the enabled effect in the 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 some folder with photos or movies, think about whether these files are currently being used by another program, such as a torrent client, close it and try copying again.

A friend of mine kept all his junk in one big folder, these were files of various AVI, XML, docx, iso, jpg formats. The folder was very large and everything in it was mixed up, there were not completely downloaded movies and so on. He even himself sometimes changed the extensions of video files for the experiment, when he could not open them, for example, in the program he needed, of course, all this chaos, Windows 7 Explorer could not stand copying this entire folder to a portable hard drive

Most people start to realize that something is wrong with Windows when they try to copy or move files and see a small green progress window. It would be nice if this window hung 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 does it take all eight minutes to delete another file? Tiny "Green Ribbon of Death" could be a precursor to File Explorer crashing

This is one of the two green death ribbons in Windows 7, the other being the progress bar that appears at the top of the Explorer window in the address/path field. And what happens, you ask? It turns out that Explorer takes so long to copy, move or delete files for several reasons, some of which are really justified. (This problem was much more severe in Vista, but persisted in Windows 7.)

First, File Explorer needs time to pre-scan the files and folders you're about to copy, move, etc. and check for potential conflicts, duplicate files, or security issues that require user intervention. So you see this nifty the confirmation window for 34 conflicts only happens once, rather than the 34 separate confirmations you had to get in XP and earlier versions of Windows.

If you are copying media files (e.g. photos, videos, PDF documents), you will see preview thumbnails that can help. You can even right-click directly on a thumbnail in the window if you want to work on the files without pausing the operation. Moreover, you can choose to copy or move the file without replacing the original, but renaming the file.

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

which turns the screen into a black square, asking you for permission to make a change. Naturally, File Explorer must check every 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 must do some security reconnaissance, and depending on the speed of your network connection, this can take quite a while.

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 reasons that can cause File Explorer to freeze or even crash, and if one of them affects the copy of Explorer you're using, the selection box can just hang on the screen for ages . Once you fix the problems, copy, move, or delete operations will run much faster.

Cloud backup and syncing service Microsoft SkyDrive, built into Windows 8.1, is a really good way to access your files and documents on devices with little storage capacity, like tablets and ultrabooks.

The way it works is that the service downloads indexes and thumbnail images of all the files you store in SkyDrive onto your PC's hard drive. These files take up almost no space on your PC, because even if you have saved 100 GB of files on SkyDrive, you can only save pointers on your PC.

Access SkyDrive apps in file explorer or from an app.

Clue. Some applications that give access to PC files also provide access to SkyDrive.

When you open a file in SkyDrive, it is quickly downloaded from the cloud and stored on your PC, as long as you have an active Internet connection, of course. When you save this file on your computer, any changes you make to it are synced to the cloud. This is a great way to avoid filling up your PC's hard drive with files that you won't open on it.

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

Save the file to SkyDrive.

Windows 8.1, when syncing with SkyDrive, by default saves files from your PC's C:\[Users]\[Username]\ folder to C:\[Users]\[Username]\SkyDrive, where it downloads pointers to your files. Change the location to another partition or hard drive, there are no direct options in the PC settings or in the control panel.

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

Using Microsoft SkyDrive to share files.

Sometimes you may want to share files saved on SkyDrive with other people. You can do this 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 Sharing screen. Next, a dialog box will appear asking you who you want to give