Accounting application struggles in Windows 10 (Mapped Network Drive)

Perhaps your legacy accounting system was built for use with a 32 bit OS and is incompatible with a 64 bit OS.

JackHughs

But it works perfectly fine on Win 8.1 x64 on a older computer :)

Back to basics. Your problem is slow communication between your new Windows 10 machines and the accounting software "server." And, I assume that all of your clients are connected via Ethernet and not wireless.

Try resetting the NIC's on the new machines to auto-negotiate and see if that speeds things up.

JackHughs

I agree - back to basics :)

Tested:

New PC Windows 10 - working slow
New PC Windows 8 - ALSO working slow - tested yesterday

Until yesterday I was sure that this is OS related problem (Windows 10 on the client). But now when I experience the same problem on Windows 8 (new PC) I think that it could be somehow hardware related.

I will try NIC reset on both server and 1 client for test... on Monday.

Since everything works except for your new clients, I would only reset the new clients.

JackHughs

Just a thought, I'm by no means an expert, could it be the server PC is either hibernating or going to sleep? Maybe the HDD is set to spin down after X number of minutes and the delay in access is due to waking it up?

Thanks for your involvement.

This is not the issue because the "server" computer is being used during access from the clients.

Instead of using a mapped drive, try changing the settings in your accounting software to point to the database file via UNC: \\servername\sharename\databasefile

I have seen that change make a world of difference. Anyway, something to try.

Sorry but how can I map the database name directly?
I am not opening database, I am opening a program. Program manages database. Please explain. Thank you