Slow Network Drive (Win7 x64, TC7.5)

[fuxi]

hi all,

since i updated from winXP to win7, my network drives are incredibly slow.
i've searched the forum and tried several things but nothing worked.

seems like my problem is a bit different: copying/moving files is at normal speed, only loading the directory list is really slow (about 10 seconds for a list with 700 files).

here's what i've tried so far (no success)
- i'm also having kaspersky antivirus and tried turning off proactive protection + also the whole engine
- turn off powersafe mode for network device
- trying out several settings under options-operation-copy/delete:
turning off standard copy method, using compatibility mode for my network drives.

any ideas what still could be wrong?
thx

[ghisler(Author)]

What machines are the network drives (Windows, which version, or Special NAS)?

[fuxi]

What machines are the network drives (Windows, which version, or Special NAS)?

it's mainly just one network drive on my asus eee netbook, running on win xp professional.

as i said, previously i had xp on my desktop pc and the network drive speed was normal, just since i'm using win7 (on my desktop machine) it's slow.

btw. i had an idea and tested the network drive with an older version of total commander (7.04) - it's also slow. even that slow that totalcommander tells "no response".

[ghisler(Author)]

How about the Explorer, is it slow too?

[fuxi]

How about the Explorer, is it slow too?

explorer speed is fast/normal.

[ghisler(Author)]

Try turning off icons in Configuration - Options - Icons, and let me know whether it helps or not.

[fuxi]

Try turning off icons in Configuration - Options - Icons, and let me know whether it helps or not.

i'm sorry to say it doesn't help.
i just compared performance to windows explorer and found out: win7 directly displays eg. folders but has a progressbar which indicates that it's still loading.
totalcommander shows anything AFTER anything was loaded.
plus, totalcommander takes very long.

stats:
i'm having a folder with 1100 subfolders and 600 files
with totalcommander it takes 11 seconds to load it (each time) (with all settings suggested, icons off ..)

windows explorer takes ~5 seconds but kinda caches it so next time i'm accessing it it's there immidiately.

some other things i've tested:
using totalcommander 7.5 under xp mode (win7's virtual xp machine)
same problem, takes 11 seconds

using totalcommander 6.55 under win7: also slow

using totalcommander 7.5 under win7 + actual network drive path (instead of mapped drive name): takes 18 secs (instead of 11) :/

no idea what i could try else.

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately I cannot reproduce this Windows 7 slowness here.

Did you install any other programs which may conflict with TC, e.g. a background virus scanner or firewall?

[ToCo]

I do experience the same issue with Vista.

Total Commander accessing network shares is incredible slow. For large lists it actually takes up to minutes to read, and then there is a reread everytime when you get in and out of the TC window. I already tried to disable the reread as mentioned in the FAQ, but this does not work as it seems.

Any idea in the meantime?

[ToCo]

Update:

Found this tip in another topic
Wincmd.ini

[Configuration]
IconsOnNet=0

Seems to help a lot!

[GammelBert]

I also upgraded from WinXP to Win7. Disabling "Show overlay Icons" helped. For me I think it is the small administrator shield displayed in the .exe file icons that causes the slowdown. It was introduced with Vista or Win7. But unchecking this option disables it everywhere, not only on network shares.

[ghisler(Author)]

You can turn off EXE/LNK icons on network drives, then TC will not get the shield overlay for EXE files on network drives either.

But icons and overlays are loaded in a separate thread, so they should not affect the loading of the directory itself at all...

[GammelBert]

It seems like the file cursor flickers each time such a shield overlay is loaded. So when there are 30 exe files in a directory it flickers quite often. I find that annoying because when something blinks on the screen it draws your attention.

[michelvallee]

This degradation may occur when you activate the folder redirection GPO for the AppData (Roaming) directorie.

[powerfulman]

Update:

Found this tip in another topic
Wincmd.ini

[Configuration]
IconsOnNet=0

Seems to help a lot!

I also have display delay issue when open net drive on win7_x64 (explorer shows fast), while winXP doesn't experience such an issue.

[Configuration]
IconsOnNet=0

solves the delay problem! Thanks.