Windows 7, Deleting Large files is extremely slow. (Not going to recycle bin, permanent delete)

Hey guys, I know something that generally works.

Use the command-line to do file operations. It sucks, but so far that seems to be the only real way to get around this.

I have more problems with dealing with multitudes of small 2MB files, and it

takes

forever

in

explorer.

So, I use the CLI. Press start, type CMD, and you're on your way. Some handy commands:

DEL - I use this one LOTS

robocopy - much faster than copy/xcopy. doesn't always work with certain devices like cameras.

Anyhow... hope M$ wakes up and figures out that when I want to do something with a file, I don't want to have to go make a sandwich, eat, watch a movie, come back and still be at "calculating"... just freaking DO IT already. Only time I want to see something like a calculating time screen is for massive amounts of data over a network or something, and then I'd reather it DO the operation I want, and calculate as it goes, not this "hey, lets make this busy photographer sit around for a week while we make useless calculations before we even do what he asked!" **** that it does now.

Sorry, little frustrated, as robocopy doesn't work with several of my cameras.

Luckily it does work with my main camera!

Delete large folders and files from the command-line interface.  Pretty well instant.

Takes no time to get there - marginally slower than the GUI, but not much.

/Start - type 'cmd'

Command-line interface comes up.

Navigate to the folder ["cd <folder path>"]

type "del *.*"

All gone.

I don't know what W7 is doing - clearly it looks at every file and thinks about it.  Not much point I'd have thought, since the files are going to be deleted anyway.  Like sorting through the trash before putting it on the street.

This has been going on so long, and is such a nuisance, that you'd have thought Microsoft could have fixed it by now.  Must be awfully complicated.

Anyway, I routinely delete folders with >10G files no problem.

I am running Windows 7 x64 with an AMD Phenom II 3.3Ghz 6 core.

Everything on this machine works wonderful and blisteringly fast, except copying large files.

When trying to copy a large file 1GB (Access MDB file) to a networked drive, it says that I should wait 19 HOURS.

It never finishes and eventually bombs out. Even if I click Cancel, it refuses to cancel. The only way to get the copying to stop is to do a shutdown and reboot. I have tried using xcopy /J from a CMD prompt, but that also does not work. It has been running now for about one hour and not a response.

Strangely, when I copy this file FROM the mapped drive TO my PC it copies in seconds. But it refuses to copy back to the network drive at the same speed. So far I had to keep using my flash drive and manually copy the file back to the networked PC each time.

I have tried:

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled (from eleveated CMD prompt) - No luck.

xcopy /J - No luck

Found this link and now going to try that:

http://www.freenerd.net/index.php?title=Windows\_7\_slow\_file\_copy\_fix

If you have any other suggestions, please let me know, thanks!

I ended up having to force reboot, do a disk repair, boot to safe mode, delete the files via command prompt.

Problem still exists.  I will try the admin command prompt in a bit but the current delete won't even cancel and stops reboot as well.  I assume if I force reboot I will have a corrupt drive when I try to login again.

I'm trying to delete two 18 GB zip files.