If I copy the same file to my Vista Ultimate x86 laptop it takes 40 minutes, that's more like it, after all we do have a gigabit LAN.
After reading several forums I found 5 main (possible) resolutions to this:
- Disable TCP auto tuning by running this command with administrator privileges: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled (you can set is back again with =normal).
- Turn off the Remote Differential Compression feature. Go to Control Panel, Programs and Features, Turn Windows features on or off, switch off RDC.
- In the same place, also switch off Windows Meeting Space.
- In networking, switch off IPv6 support.
- Stop and disable the Superfetch service and reboot.
I took steps 1, 2 and 5 but I think that 5 made the most impact. Now the same 20GB file copies over the LAN to the Windows 7 machine in 18 minutes! Looks like I may need to apply these settings to Vista.

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