Zen Touch/Vista and Slow Transfer - Any Advice?

/Zen Touch/Vista and Slow Transfer - Any Advice?s I recently purchased a new PC with the new Intel i7 quadcore chip running vista.
Everything running blazingly fast, except music transfers to my Zen Touch.
Did the firmware upgrade on my old XP PC (after rolling back Windows Media Player to v0 as mentioned).
Loaded MediaSource 5 on the new Vista PC with the proper drivers (the "playforsure" one, plus the CD burning one). Copied all my media files to the new PC using an external hard-dri've.
I have the 40GB Zen Touch, started transferring all of my 0,888 WMA files to it (96kbps), which normally may take the better part of a day, or overnight,?on the old XP machine.
I'm going on about 2 /2 days now (with the new PC, new firmware, new MediaSource software/drivers)?and finally it's almost finished.
It?started out like gangbusters, song ever second or two, but with each transfer seemed to slow, now doing about song per minute!
I've heard the 'playforsure' software slows things down...but this seems ridiculous. Is there anything I can do?

kovach wrote:
I recently purchased a new PC with the new Intel i7 quadcore chip running vista.
Everything running blazingly fast, except music transfers to my Zen Touch.
Did the firmware upgrade on my old XP PC (after rolling back Windows Media Player to v0 as mentioned).
Loaded MediaSource 5 on the new Vista PC with the proper drivers (the "playforsure" one, plus the CD burning one). Copied all my media files to the new PC using an external hard-dri've.
I have the 40GB Zen Touch, started transferring all of my 0,888 WMA files to it (96kbps), which normally may take the better part of a day, or overnight,?on the old XP machine.
I'm going on about 2 /2 days now (with the new PC, new firmware, new MediaSource software/drivers)?and finally it's almost finished.
It?started out like gangbusters, song ever second or two, but with each transfer seemed to slow, now doing about song per minute!
I've heard the 'playforsure' software slows things down...but this seems ridiculous. Is there anything I can do?
From the recovery /rescue mode on the player do a Cleanup>Reboot. the more files you have on it the slower the dri've may become since it's getting full. Also WMP works faster at least for me with syncing files.

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