I don't know if this is related to what you're doing - but sometimes, XCOPY (a dos command), rather than pasting through explorer, seems to transfer folders much more quickly

>Hi All
>I recently converted one of my applications to VFP8 and to take advantage of
>the userlook I used window xp as the workstation with window 2000 as the server. The promlem is not related to VFP8 but window xp.
>When writing to disk it becomes so slow. pasting a folder of 10mb can take more than 30 minutes. If we change server properties with configue, advance, link speed & duplex and change the link speed from 100 full duplex to 100 half duplex or vice-versa it flies and copy same folder within seconds. After
>a while (approx 1/2 hour) working it becomes slow again.
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>I am not using any anti-virus programs which may slow performance.
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>I would appreciate any suggetion to resolve this problem.