Windows 10: Slow Network File Transfers On New Dell Boxes

I have installed three new Dell systems on a small network. The systems are well equipped with fast CPUs and 16GB RAM and 1TB local drives.


I have tried the various autotuninglevel settings and Remote Differential Compression to no effect.


The older Windows 7 system they replaced never experienced this type of sluggish behavior, so I am feeling like the OS is my culprit, but I am not ruling anything out.


Here are my observations: Copying from a network folder share to a local machine maybe 1600 files/folders of various sizes totaling to around 700MB using file explorer, select copy paste - it takes around 20 minutes sometimes more, never less.


Using XCOPY same files and locations it takes less than 3 minutes.


I also noted that even though I had mapped the drive in file explorer that I could not see the drive letter in the DOS box until I also mapped it using NET USE. Either something weird is going on or I am totally lost!


Why does the file copy using the GUI take so long?

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Schedules task has slow network transfers?

I have a bat file that I use to backup all my data from one computer to another. They are on a gigabit network.

When I run the bat file normally(by double clicking it), it will transfer fast. Network untilization is usually in the 40-50% range.


Now, if I schedule a task to run the bat file, it transfers extremely slow. Network utilization is usually in the 2-3% range.

It takes multiple hours to finish the backup if it runs as a task and there is any new data.

Are scheduled tasks limitted in some why that might be causing this?

This is Vista x64.

 

Vista Network Transfer Verrrry Slow!

Anyone know if there's a hotfix or a work around to improve transfer speeds. I'm trying to move about 260Mb of music file to my public music folder so I can transfer them to my HTPC via the network. During this process the OS locks up really badly and the transfer speeds are just ridiculously slow, something is wrong!

 

transfer files between computers on a home network


I don't know why this is so hard to do but I would like to transfer files between a desktop PC running windows 10 pro and a laptop running windows 10 home. I would like to transfer files in both directions. Both computers are on the same home network and are connected wirelessly.

Could some one provide either specific step by step instructions on how to do this (I googled and found a countless list of instructions that don't work)

or a link to a reference.

Thanks,

I don't know if this is possible but it would be nice to see the computer sending the desired file in the explorer file manager of the computer receiving the desired file and then under the computer see a list
of shared files and folders.

Again, this seems like such a reasonable way of sharing files and folders. Shouldn't there be a simple way to do this?