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I read through every post in this. I am in desperation mode after being plagued by this issue since MayJune of last year. Listed below are the specs of the machines and network. In addition to the machines discussed, I have several other computersdevices connected. Free. NAS server hardlined, old Acer laptop running MCE wireless, HDHome. Run hardlined, Media Extender hardlined, i. Pad wireless and Wii wireless. Machines Win. 7 box  Win. Php 5 3 8 For Readynas X86 Servers Wikipedia' title='Php 5 3 8 For Readynas X86 Servers Wikipedia' />Home 6. SP1, Asus P7. P5. D EVO MB, Core i. G. Skill DDR 1. 60. WD 6. 40g Blacks Raid 0. XFX 2. 75. GTX Nvidia VCs, built in Realtek 8. L 8. 11. 0SC gigabit LANXP box  Win. XP Pro 3. 2 bit SP3, Intel 8. MB, 3. 0ghz P4, 1gb Kingston memory, WD 3. Raptor 1. 0k RPM OS HDD. Seagate 5. 00gb IDE multimedia HDD, Seagate 1tb SATA TV recording HDD, ATI 9. Pro VC, built in Intel gigabit LANNetwork Fully wired Cat 5e network running DHCP server through an Actiontec MI4. WR Verizon FIOS router and uplinked to a Netgear GS1. Issue From the Win. I am unable to copy large files across the network to the XP box. Ive tried moving. Unfortunately the size of the file causing the issue is not consistent each time and therefore I havent been able to pinpoint a size threshold when the copy fails. For. I have been using is a folder that consists of 1. When I try to copy the entire 6. Win. 7 to XP the copy window shows calculating and after a minute or so returns the following error There is a problem accessing. Servere.   Make sure you are connected to the network and try again. The error window gives me the options to Try Again, Skip or CancelBefore this error message appears and during the time the copy window shows calculating I cannot access any network. BSOD crash analysis support, BSOD debugging and error reports and help for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems, driver research,crash dump analysis. Copying files in Vista was horrible and I thought this was to be fixed in Windows 7. However, their is very little improvement if any at all. If I click the try again button on the error message, the error window continues to pop up over and over. If I click skip, it tries to skip the file and continue copying, but returns the same error within a few seconds. After I click cancel, I navigate to the XP box and can see that SOME of the 1. The files that successfully copied are all lt 2. Only those files up to the first large file 1gb are copied. The error message is produced once copying of the first large file is attempted. If I try to move only the 1gb file by itself, it appears to start copying albeit at a painful 1. Interestingly enough, I tried copying another folder of many large music files 2. If I pull files from the XP box to the Win 7 box regardless of file size or number of files in the folder, I have no problems. Troubleshooting Ive tried all of the suggestions in this thread as well as others Ive found on the net and have not found a solutionfix. I have been using the same test file for which is a folder consisting of 1. Below is a list of the troubleshooting items Ive completed so far. Replace Cat. 5e cables on Win. XP boxes no improvement. Disconnect all cables from switch except for Win. XP no improvement. Copy file to another HDD on XP box no improvement. Remove all cables from switch including Win. XP and reconnect just Win. XP, forcing router to reassign IP addresses no improvement. Changed ports on switch for both Win. XP no improvement. Turn off antivirus on both machines no improvement. Plug only Win. 7 and XP box into Actiontec router, taking switch out of equation no improvement. Update Win. 7 and XP NIC drivers to latest available no improvement. Force full duplex, 1. Install Cable. Nut software on XP box to optimize Stack settings no improvement. Remove router uplink from switch remove all Cat. Win. 7 and XP set static IPs in both machines no improvement. Disable auto tuning and receive side scaling on Win. Turn off Remote Differential Compression on Win. Install 8gb new memory, certified compatible ran Mem. Test on each stick and again with all 8gbs installed and no errors reported no improvement. Updated to latest MB Bios no improvement. Ran copy command in DOS prompt no improvement. Human Psychology Books Pdf In Bengali Style here. Disabled Large Send Offload in NIC properties no improvement. Unchecked IPv. 6 in network properties no improvement. Confirmed not on homegroup and disabled feature altogether no improvement. Turned off all power save options related to NIC on both machines no improvement. Formatted both Win. XP and did clean reinstall of operating systems and bare essential drivers no improvement. Uninstalled all Win. Tested while machines running in Safe Mode wnetworking. THIS IS WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING  XP to Win. Whats interesting is the Win. XP transfer rates as illustrated below. Both machines in safe mode. AND ALL FILES COPIED INCLUDING LARGE 1. GB FILES. b.          XP safe mode and Win. AND ALL FILES COPIED INCLUDING LARGE 1. GB FILES. Slightly better performance but still nowhere near speed copying in the opposite direction. Win. 7 safe mode and XP normal operating mode. AND ALL FILES COPIED INCLUDING LARGE 1. GB FILES. d.          Both machines in normal operating mode. Same issue as stated above and only small files are copied. Im hoping someone here might be able to make headstails of the safe mode tests and what a logical next step might be. Ive searched the internet and found plenty of posts from other Win. XP across a network, but havent found a real solution or explanation of what is causing the problem. Ive also. Anyone have thoughtscomments on that theory  Im looking forward to Microsoft finally admitting there is an issue and offering a solution UPDATE TO PREVIOUS POST  Continued troubleshooting as follows. Hardlined MCE laptop to network and test file transfer pushing from Win. MCE laptop no improvement. Copy file across network from XP box to hardlined MCE laptop, initiating copy from Win. Connect MCE laptop to network via wireless G and test file transfer pushing from Win. ALL 1. 39 FILES ARE COPIED INCLUDING LARGE 1. GB FILES. Since the copy was performed across the wireless network, transfer speeds were a dismal 2. BUT the entire folder and all of its contents transferred successfully. Copy file from MCE laptop wireless G connection to XP box, initiating copy from Win. ALL 1. 39 FILES ARE COPIED INCLUDING LARGE 1. GB FILES. Since the copy was performed across the wireless network, transfer speeds were a dismal 2. BUT the entire folder and all of its contents transferred successfully. Adjusted the following settings on Win. Speed. Guide. net Windows 7, Vista, 2. Tweaks  a  Disable windows scaling hueristics, b disable auto tuning previously done in step 1. RSS, f enable TCP Chimney Offload, g enable direct cache access, h enable netdma. I left all other settings unchanged. FILES SUCCESSFULLY COPIED FROM WIN7 TO XP BOX AT 4. I needed to confirm which parameter adjustment fixed the problem, so one by one I changed each of the above parameters in step. Strangely enough, there was no impact on the file copying from Win. XP box  It still worked  I continued to try copying the large files and it seemed. Initially was 4. 0 4. I then changed all of the TCP Global Parameter settings back to the original settings basically the starting point of step 2. This time only the first file in the folder of files 8kb copied and nothing else I then changed all of the TCP Global Parameter settings back to the Speed. Guide. net recommended settings and as performed in step 2. Win. 7 to XP still did not work  This time it copied the small files in the folder up to the first large file 1gb. Apparently Windows 7 can learn, adapt and outsmart traditional troubleshooting techniques and can adjust on the fly to continue to screw. How can making these changes after step 2.