Filtered articles: "Explorer"

Filtered articles: "Explorer"

FastCopy - Free File Copy Tool Runs Circles Around Explorer
Published by Helge Klein on 05/17/2011 | 3 Comments | 2,844 Views

When it comes to copying files, Windows Explorer may probably be called reliable, but fast it is not. After the rewrite of the copy routines in Vista had caused much customer dissatisfaction, Microsoft rewrote the copy dialog again for Windows 7. But still, especially copying many small files takes ages.

And there are other problems: Explorer does not handle long paths at all. Files and directories stored in paths longer than 260 characters (MAX_PATH) are not copied by Explorer.

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Soup Up Your Terminal Server: Optimizing Explorer's Network Performance
Published by Helge Klein on 11/07/2007 | 8 Comments | 18,018 Views

Update: The ADM file can now be downloaded here.


I recently came across a post in the Windows Server Performance Team's blog that lists several registry values which can be used to tune Explorer's SMB performance by modifying the following:



  • Searches for Desktop.ini files used for folder customization

  • Periodic refreshes of folder contents

  • Searches for supporting library (.dll) files

  • Individual file details and attributes pulled for each file

  • Thumbnail extraction

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