Windows Network file copy

[Durbs]

Have you got 'Enable Advanced Performance' selected for the drive? Doesn't Vista disable this by default?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Have you got 'Enable Advanced Performance' selected for the drive? Doesn't Vista disable this by default?

Dunno - thanks I will check it

[ThomasSoerensen]

use fastcopy

[NickFitz]

Obligatory xkcd link: Estimation

[yorkshireman]

Could also be antivirus slowing you down. Might be worth disabling it as a test.

As the poster said above an external USB2 disk should either be fast (or at least prove which machine is running the slowest!)

[ee61re]

Disable AV on both machines, do the copy using a command prompt, not via the GUI.

Connect the PCs using a crossover cable, so you get 1Gbps connection, not just 100Mbps.