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Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting

• gscott 19y ago
  Vista is probably running some DRM scheme on whatever your are trying to copy or delete and it locks up. Microsoft might not be saying it, but they must feel burned by putting in DRM everywhere. It is bringing them nothing but headaches.
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• Tichy 19y ago
  It's because Vista sends a backup copy of everything to Redmond while copying. Those people just need faster internet connections.
• dcurtis 19y ago
  After decades, why haven't programmers figured out a way to accurately gauge the time it takes to complete tasks? Even the Mac OS X Leopard installer is horrible about it. Starting every installation by saying it will take 2.5 hours is stupid when it really takes thirty minutes. Also, because no one would ever need to start a copy that would take a year, why does the Vista copy timer even go that far? It should switch to "calculating" or something more friendly and less absurd.