Mike I deal with a large VFP9 application that is installed on thousands of sites, and we are seeing occurrences of this also, to the extent where a customer will bring in a new Windows 7 machine and it will be extremely slow, with the other 5-year-old XP machines on the network being fast at the same operations.
This application has EXE and supporting files locally on the clients, accessing data on a server share. My suspicion is that this is due to the different network stack in Windows 7, crappy Windows 7 drivers for network cards, differences in the way it negotiates with network hardware, or a combination of these. I don't have one of these problem sites near me to investigate at the minute unfortunately. If you have a Windows Server 2008 in the mix you definitely need to either set the server to use SMB1 over SMB2, or alternatively apply the SMB2 hotfix that MS released recently. This will stop index corruption issues at the very least. There is also talk that turning off Remote Differential Compression may help, see here: http://serverfault.com/questions/85965/slow-network-file-copy-on-windows-7 -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
