Why are Windows Live Messenger transfers so slow in Vista?

[Alex_Ncfc]

I've got Windows XP x64 and Vista Ultimate (x86) on my machine. I've had both installed for a few months now and was mainly using XP, but I have finally started to love using Vista more and more, and so it is my preferred choice when I start my machine.

I have ONE problem with Vista though which is really, really winding me up, and it does not occur in Windows XP.

Whenever someone sends me a file on Windows Live Messenger (8.1) or if I send them one, it takes forever - the time it takes is stupidly long, especially when you consider it will take about 1 minute for someone to send me a 100K JPG file. On XP, this would literally take seconds. I'm on 512k broadband, running through a router. UPNP is also enabled in both OS', though my router does not officially support this. However, I wouldn't have thought it could possibly be a problem with UPNP, because like I have already said, file transfers on MSN are very quick when using Windows XP on the same machine.

It's really getting on my nerves. It's bad enough with JPEGs, but you can imagine how bad it is if someone wants to send me a 10MB ZIP file - I'll be sitting here for hours!!

The rest of the internet is fine on Vista - webpages load quickly, and I get 50-60K/sec downloads as I do on XP. I run Zone Alarm on Vista too by the way...

Can anyone offer any possible advice? It's a mystery to me.

Cheers

[ajua]

i always had problems with live messenger about sending files speed.

i have tried with many friends and vista, xp is the same. it doesn't matter. however, in the last few weeks my transfers with some friends are going well, i don't know why. bot of us have vista.

maybe it has something to do with messenger itself.

[Galt]

i always had problems with live messenger about sending files speed.

i have tried with many friends and vista, xp is the same. it doesn't matter. however, in the last few weeks my transfers with some friends are going well, i don't know why. bot of us have vista.

maybe it has something to do with messenger itself.

I've always had the same problems with MSN Messenger, however if you want to see if it's the IM or Vista, try Yahoo IM, to compare (one I've never had issues with file transfers with regarding speed) and a lot depends on what both sides are doing, while transfer is going on.

Also, make sure no other HD activity is going on when sending or receiving, especially large files..

The key to resolve any issue, is testing, testing, testing, even if the why?, never gets answered.

Edited July 25, 2007 by Galt