Well, I've determined that the problem is caused by Quickbooks versions 2006 and later. Quickbooks 2006 has no apparent workaround that I can tell (if you know of one, please feel free to correct me). QB 2007 and & 2008 have a client only mode that can be selected at installation and doesn't degrade network performance, the former IT guy installed QB inconsistently on user's laptops, so that's why it was masked so well. Since changing positions from tax department to tax/IT I didn't have as urgent a need for QB, so never got around to re-installing it, then when setting up a couple of new computers, I noticed the performance hit after installing QB 2006.
-Jonathan On Feb 1, 2008 2:50 PM, Jonathan Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My googlefu has failed me. I've searched for and tested several potential > solutions to this problem. Perhaps someone out there can enlighten me. > > I have several Windows XP Pro SP2 computers on my network that have poor > performance when copying small files, and normal performance when copying > large files. When I say poor performance, I'm in a 100 Mb > switched environment and I'm achieving 2 to 4 Mbits/sec copying small > files. On other computers, I can copy the same set of files at about > 20-30Mbits/second. Several is at least 11 out of 50. > > Two computers of the same make can perform differently. A wipe and > reinstall on my computer brought the speed back to what I would expect, so > it would seem to be a registry setting. I'm speculating, because our > previous sysadmin had a penchant for mucking with the registry to fix any > little problem and frequenty created more problems in the process. > > I've found this article from MS KB, but it didn't address the problem. > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321098 > > Thanks, > Jonathan > > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
