Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting
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It's been almost nine months since we first reported on Windows Vista's inability to copy, delete and move files without stalling indefinitely, and yet the problem continues.
Screenshots relayed this week by two Reg readers say it better than we ever could. "48167 Days and 23 hours remaining," one of them reads. "36843 Days and 0 hours remaining," states the other. Both are Vista's best-faith guesses as to how long it will take to copy data from one location to another.
"I have been experiencing slow copying ever since I 'upgraded' to Vista earlier this year, particularly from USB keys & drives," writes Adrian Procter, the Reg reader who provides Screenshot 1 (right). When Procter tried to create a CD with just 168Mb of pictures, Vista told him it would take more than 131 years to complete the job.
So he canceled the job and used Nero 7. The task was completed successfully in a couple minutes. Both CDs came from the same package and he's never had an error writing to CDs or DVDs before. His laptop, by the way, has 1.25 GB of RAM, 15 GB of free hard disk space and runs on a Centrino Pentium M740.
Vista's Long Goodbye, as we've come to call this bug, is one of the more baffling things to come out of Redmond in recent memory. Copying files to a CD or across a network is not exactly one of the more exotic things a PC user can do, right? And yet, the problem continues. Even stranger, Microsoft has yet to acknowledge the problem, other than to issue this hotfix, which many users say does nothing to remedy the bug.
We kept our fingers crossed that the glitch would be straightened out with Service Pack 1, but even after the update is installed, many users are confounded to learn that the problem still persists.
"I have just installed the pre-release version of SP1 for Windows Vista after their website promised me in glowing terms that the file copying wait would be much reduced," she wrote. "Apparently not, as you can plainly see by the enclosed screenshot" (right).
To be fair, some participants on this monster, 478-post thread on Microsoft's TechNet site have reported success in eradicating the Vista malady. Some report SP1 does speed things up. Others have seen improvements after running through a series of steps that includes disabling Windows search service, tweaking Vista's user account control settings and setting network interface cards at half duplex or auto negotiate.
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Comments(17)
sp1 fixed the slow transfers for me. copying files from drive to drive is now faster than
ever. sometimes it goes at the sata burst speed, so a 200 mb file would finish copying
instantly (no transfer progress window at all).
yeah the stalling svcks, thats why i dont like using vista it always stalls when doing
any file handling task
is this corrected in sp1 ?
waiting 30 seconds to read each folder om a network drive
is not a option, thats why mainly i dont use vista anymore, there where other
annoyances...
so he canceled the job and used nero 7. the task was completed successfully in a couple
minutes. end quote well look at vista now we depend on a third party to fix vista
...microsoft get off your ship and fix this bull...ill take this peice of scrap back to
the manurrr factory
mind-bogglingly incompetent software design. billions of stolen dollars. at lest
a ford escort timing belt would give you 60,000 miles b4 it would wear out as planned. an
overabundance of regulatory agencies looks the other way.
vista was meant to be a wow!!!!!!! lol
is it?
yep, wow its slow..............
this also drives me mad, how darn long it takes vista to copy files. it drives me nuts.
even by microsoft's standards, vista seems so over bloated, too many things take longer
to do in it.
well, that's it! i've given microsoft a year to sort this problem out and have they?
no! so, it is with great sadness that i format my hard drive and re-install xp. that has
to be the "longest goodbye" ever!
old news
yes it is old news but it needs to be known to the whacko leftwing mac and linux user who
hate windows.
i also have problem in explorer, he always hang every time i open a folder or computer or
control. somebody have this problem, help please
i keep seeing these threads all around. i've installed vista on at least 5 newly built
pcs now and never ever experienced this problem. granted there have been one or two other
hickups, never seen out of the ordinary file manipulation times.
does it only
affect older computers, or particular hardware combinations?
and you vista users, are guinea pigs :(
??? how can this sort of thing happen? is microsoft really just five guys working out of
a wooden shed in some back garden somewhere? i have only tried vista for a couple of days,
and thought it was okay-ish. but to be honest ive had my xp looking much better before
using third party interface tweakers.
after 7 months of windows vista ultra usages, i reinstalled windows xp back on all 4 of
my family pcs because my wife and my kids were constantly complaining that "vista does
everything 10 times slower than xp when it works... or my vista pc doesn't do anything...
or my vista pc is stucked again... my vista pc is broken again...".
windows vista
can nolonger drive my wife and my kids crazy anymore but vista is still driving me mad. it
destroys my "daddy knows everything about new technology" creditbility with the family.
thanks to vista, i now hear quite a few reminders "that i should have and could
have bought 3 iphones plus a nintendo wii game console for the family instead of wasting
my money on the micro-s.u_c.k windows vista ultra s.u_c.k edition"
i have no such problems on my vista x64 ultimate, wonder why that is :( a mate who is
running vista x64 aswell has no problems also...
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