Vista vs XP on Sz680

Hi!

I have an Sz680N01 and I love it. Sometimes the Vista seems slow, despite I made clean install. So I decided to use Windows XP.

Now I installed an Xp from the recovery DVDs. Uninstalled all the bloatware, defragged, made all the tweak I used to use on XP systems. Now I have a small XP system.

My only problem is the network copying speed.
In Vista I can copy 35-40MByte/s from my desktop PC. In Xp this is only 25Mbyte/s (and this is a virgin XP, not even an antivirus installed)...

Did you run into this problem, or have I something wrong on my Sz680?
What is the network copying speed in Total commander from a desktop PC to your Vaio?

 

Vista has file-copying issues. This is resolved in current release candidates of Vista Service Pack 1. Once SP1 has been officially released from Microsoft you could then apply it to your system to resolve your issues.

Alternatively, I do believe there are Vista Reliability Updates that resolve the file copying issues. These fixes come from Microsoft and are included in SP1. They are probably available on Windows Update but I don't currently run Vista so I can't really check. But you could probably download them from here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938979/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938194/en-us

 

do you have the proper drivers for your ethernet/wireless installed? The standard XP drivers might not be able to do the higher speeds, but the proper drivers should.

 

Vista is faster than XP in the copying... Is this tru to you, or I misconfigured something? Can you measure the file copying speed on Xp?

I never had copying problem in Vista.

 

are you trying to copy from within Windows? Or are you copying from one machine to the other over a network?

 

I restored the Sony XP Recovery....
Do you think something wrong on the recovery dics?

 

I trying to copy in total commander on my vaio (left side is the system drive on the vaio, right side is a network share on my desktop pc)(I copyed the same DVD image).

The driver is 10.14.6.3 (Marwell Yukon gigabit ethernet driver) and this is what I have downloaded from the Sony downgrade ftp too...

It is an ethernet or chipset problem, the hard drive speed is 45MB/s measured by Sisoft Sandra drive benchmark...

In vista the speed is 35-40MB/s, in XP it is only 25MB/s. The hdd led flashes slowly, sot he hdd is not used so hard..

This is my problem...

 

Yes, Vista had a major bug regarding file copying across a network. However it was fixed with a Windows Update patch a long time ago, you don't need SP1 to get it. I have one machine running SP1 RC1 (My VAIO AR670) while my desktop has Vista without SP1. Both perform pretty much identically with network file copies.

Make sure you've updated Vista with all updates from Microsoft.

 

You Dont Understand Me!
I Have Problem In Windows Xp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not In Vista!!!!!!

 

My mistake, I thought the thread had gone off in the direction of the Vista problem. Should have re-read your post.

Vista is *supposed* be faster than XP, that was one of it's claims to fame. The TCP/IP stack in XP is a hold-over and largely unchanged from the early NT days. Vista includes a completely rewritten and optimized TCP stack that was supposed to improve network performance significantly. Now how significantly, I've not measured, but I've read anecdotal evidence that it is indeed noticeably faster (aside from that network copy bug).