>It is taking up to 2 hours to copy a 500mb folder from my Sony Vaio (Vista) to my PC (Xp)
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>Is it possible something wrong or is this normal ?
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>Also I can not see files transfer showing one by one as in Xp Windows
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>Some time is showing files and ask me to retry or abort
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>Seems really a hard time do copy a folder in Vista
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>Moises

Vista does have serious performance issues moving files across a network and especially with working with ZIP files over a network.

There are a number of workarounds - do a google search and you will find them.