Having finally maxed out the drive bays on my unRaid, it's time to do some housekeeping. I'm using a Gigabit network and an Athlon 2800 PC running WinXP to move files around and copy files from other PCs, but I've always heard that XP is slow for copying files. I'm using Freecommander, but that doesn't seem to be much faster. Is there any other GUI software which runs under XP which would be faster? I'd prefer to avoid command-line alternatives because I'm likely to mess things up that way.

 

Or would things run faster if I booted up the PC with a live Linux and used that to do the housekeeping? The downside of using Linux is that it seems that NTFS writing is not reliable (and therefore often not supported) so I can't move or delete files on my XP machines, which all have NTFS filesystems, but I could live with that.

Back in the avsforum thread was a comparison using xp vs command line and explorerxp seemed to work really well.  http://www.explorerxp.com/

Thanks; I tried explorerxp, but it doesn't seem to support network drives or mapped drives 

Thanks; I tried explorerxp, but it doesn't seem to support network drives or mapped drives 

 

I had to map my drives and it works fine here.

From the AVS thread, it seems that ExplorerXP does not offer a speed advantage.  Someone did report that the DOS command "xcopy" was 5 tmes faster.