Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting

[Ezlivin]

48167 Days and 23 hours to create CD

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.

From The Register.

I think the guys at Microsoft have a hell of a sense of humor....

[Taverner]

1. Ahhh DRM...there to help YOU make sure you're getting quality!

:sarcasm:

[DS1]

2. It spends more time figuring how much stuff you are copying than it spends actually copying

and it's maddening

[Ezlivin]

I guess that's why we have to constantly get faster computers

Even though the ones most of us use are more powerful than the ones used to run the Apollo space missions....

[DS1]

12. there was more power than that in your calculator

in the 80s

we're so far beyond Apollo ;-)

[TwilightZone]

3. Not to be nit-picky, but the picture shows that he's trying to move 81GB in files.

That is no small task on a laptop, especially one with only 15GB free.

Note: the underlying assertion is valid, of course. The data used to "prove" it seems a bit inconsistent.

[Ezlivin]

4. That's from another Reg reader

Not the one referenced in the post.

The copying couldn't even begin if there was an attempt to move 80GB to a 15GB space. It would issue an error message indicating insufficient disk space.

[TwilightZone]

6. Ok, got it - the screenshot referenced in your post is not the one included.

I see that in the article itself.

[IDemo]

5. He's only showing 36.8kD* remaining to complete the transfer

* kilo-Days.

[China_cat]

7. I haven't had too much trouble moving/copying files

with Vista. Slow, yes, but not quite THAT slow.

However, I'd been having a lot of trouble with my wireless network under Vista. After doing a lot of digging, I found that Vista had firewalled my network firewall and, as a result, 2 other computers couldn't even connect and the main one was intermittent at best and dialup pace when connection could be made.

I'm not very fond of Vista.

[JCMach1]

8. PnP USB drivers also load more slowly than XP... that's very irritating

I just sit for sometimes as much as a minute for the drive to appear.

[charlie]

9. Well, Windows no longer hangs after 49.7 days

so there's unlimited time to copy those files. That's progress!

MS KB - Computer Hangs After 49.7 Days

[TwilightZone]

10. That was always one of my favorite KB articles.

I wonder how long it took them to figure that one out. Lockup, wait 49.7 days, lockup, wait 49.7 days, lockup, wait 49.7 days.

Five months later: Yep, that's a pattern! ;)

[datasuspect]

11. i installed sp1

and a lot of the laggy shit seems to have been taken care of.

vista, when released, was basically a beta.