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I let loose with a few rants on the process of transferring files to my new laptop last week, and I figured I should wrap that up. It turns out that at least half of the problem was the network card in my old laptop (or the drivers for it, or something related to that card). The WiFi connectivity with the new Thinkpad (built in Centrino) is much faster. It's clearly not the LAN itself - I haven't changed cable modems or routers. That still doesn't explain why Explorer has to be so much slower than XCOPY, but things would have been a lot smoother with a better network card. So, it's not all Microsoft's fault, and I was a little premature with the level of anger directed their way. I've already shipped the old laptop back to corporate, so suggestions aren't going to help any at this point...
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