How To Fix Problems Copying and Moving Large Files In Windows Vista

Posted on April 27th, 2007 by Jason

Although Windows Vista is a major improvement over Windows XP, there is one particular bug that has really upset me which is how slowly it moves or deletes files. In Windows XP there were no problems moving big files. However, with Windows Vista if you move big files even on the same drive there is a long pause while it calculates how long it will take and the actual move takes forever, whereas on XP it is instanteneous.

Luckily, the How To Geek has discovered what the problem is and has come up with the solution for moving and copying large files in Vista. The problem is because of the new auto-tuning network. Once Vista is auto-tuning network is turned off, then the issue of moving files goes away.

To Turn off Auto-Tuning:

1. press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to open the Command Prompt. Choose run as admin
type in: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

2. Reboot

If you have any problems, then to turn auto-tuning back on type the following in Command Prompt:

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

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15 Responses to “How To Fix Problems Copying and Moving Large Files In Windows Vista”

  1. Sleash Software on 06 Jun 2007 at 8:30 am #

    I’ve been having some troubles Moving and Deleting large files using Windows Vista, which is apparently a problem that a lot of people are having. I’ve been searching for a fix to this issue for a looong time now and it looks likeI’ve found it here.It looks like cause of the problem (at least my problem, from what I’ve read there are several) is due to Vista’s new Auto-Tuning Network. To fix the problem, open up a command prompt as administrator and type in:

  2. Lestat-Blog De Seguridad Informatica on 30 Oct 2007 at 10:53 pm #

    desde el menú inicio o presionando Ctrl+Shift+Entrar) Tipear lo siguiente: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled En caso de problemas, para habilitar nuevamente esta característica: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normalVía pctipsbox (en inglés) 

  3. Jimm on 01 May 2007 at 3:16 am #

    I have tried all of the tweaks out there including this one on 2 machines and the crappy slow file copy/move/delete will not go away. MS are idiots for messing up such a basic function and even more arrogant to not provide a fix by now!

  4. Jeremy on 01 May 2007 at 9:13 am #

    Tried the fix on 2 64bit vista ultimate machines and all it did was kill my connection to the domain. Vista SUCKS, I’m going back to XP64

  5. CRAIG on 16 May 2007 at 8:40 am #

    my problem is more basic. Slowness is one thing but unless I’m set up incorrectly, I can’t find a “move’ choice on the left panel or by right clicking.
    All I want to do is take a file and ‘move ‘ it elsewhere, but all I see if a ‘copy’ choice. Where the h—- is ‘move’?

  6. manish on 14 Jun 2007 at 11:52 am #

    guys how do i log in as admin on the command prompt. I am using vista home on amd turion notebook. every so often my cable internet would come to a halt and the ping result wud be “host unreachable” and then afetr a while it would start connecting again.

    what the fuck is this really???

    thanx
    manish

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  15. Jussi Hermansen on 04 Apr 2009 at 3:47 pm #

    This is soooo amateur-like……I have disabled autotuning, but a 28 GB photo-folder still takes over an hour to copy to a external HDD.

    Bill and Co suck…..Vista sucks even more….makes me rethink going for Win7, and instead I am gonna go back to XP….

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