Vista users complaining of slow file movements
By Donald Melanson 
posted March 28th 2007 12:25PM
posted March 28th 2007 12:25PM
Microsoft may be happy with the number of copies of Vista it's pushing out the door these days, but it seems that at least some recipients of the OS are finding that it puts as big a strain on their patience as it does their hardware, with numerous complaints cropping up of delays and stalls while moving, copying, or deleting files. According to The Register, Microsoft seems to be aware of the problem, and has already issued a "hotfix" for a related issue that may or may not also apply to this particular problem, although that's neither as easily accessible or as easy to apply than a proper patch. On that latter point, a Microsoft spokesman would only go so far as to tell The Reg that they'd check to see if a proper patch was in the works, though there doesn't appear to be any further word on that possibility as of yet.[Via Slashdot]
Running Vista on a 2003 1Gz tablet that is the bare minimum to even install Vista. If anyone should see slow file copying, I should.
Nothing worth complaining about here. Some things are vastly faster and others less overall with Vista. USB2 external drive and firewire external drive large file copying seems exactly same speed as XP for me. Who cares if small file copying takes 1.3 seconds instead of 1.1.
Compared to the DOG OSX10.0 - 10.2 was Vista is doing pretty well at month three and small file copying needing tweak is newsworthy hand wringing.
Completely new OS updates = service packs. The grass is indeed greener on the other side, that is, if you enjoy your 1000 program compatibility and 2 USB ports. I think father Jobs is calling you, he needs a foot massage.
"stop using your own misfortunes as ammunition against macs when they aren't relevant."
aww, there there.
;-)
sorry don't mean to add oil to the flame, and by no means am i a 'pcwh0r3', and i come in peace
anyways, but... once i've installed xp since like years ago, i have never once needed to pay anything for any upgrades
and i don't get it when u're saying how there're so many different verions of M$ while only 1 for osx, then u insulted M$ users by saying they're 'uniform'? or perhaps u meant 'uninformed'...
"Completely new OS updates = service packs. The grass is indeed greener on the other side, that is, if you enjoy your 1000 program compatibility and 2 USB ports. I think father Jobs is calling you, he needs a foot massage.
"stop using your own misfortunes as ammunition against macs when they aren't relevant."
aww, there there.
;-)"
Lyon got pwned.
Wow, I guess you're so busy with that virus protection and updating drivers in order to check emails that you actually have no idea about macs. 2 USB ports? Ah, sure, 4 USB ports + 1 Firewire port on my mac monitor, 1 USB2 and Firewire 800 on the front of my G5, 3 more USBs ports and 2 more FireWire ports on the rear of my G5. I have no problem with any applications, you know the dozen or so apps that I actually use. I don;t need the 10,000 apps that WIndow users have access to as 9,989 are crap.
And since you are further uninformed, my MacBook Pro which is Intel based, runs your Windows OS as well. So I have both, while you have naivety :)
and my Vaio ar21m runs vista and OSX, both have their bonuses, both their flaws, please stop flaming...
Well, my conversation got out of hand with one of the posters here and I bring out the sheep attitude which hits pc users because a majority run windows because that's all they know. To me, that's uninformed (yes, I was incorrect in using uniform, I type fast and don't always re-read like I should)
i too have a 2003 1.4ghz tablet and installed vista my screen side buttons wont work but everything in vista does. (minus movie maker, and Dvd Maker - Why didnt they have xp compat??) anyway, im a person that moves files across the network and multiple usb/Sd drives and have noticed erratic speeds. sometimes a transfer through Wifi is faster than through USB. its very sporratic.
oh and WHY doesnt vista have a signature sign in option or something. i hate using the pen to put in my password to login.
"I'm glad I'm not the only one!"
lol
misery loves company
keep trying to smile
waddo
trying windows vista has made me truly appreciate windows XP.
I even tried Ubuntu and some oder Linuxes but none of these would work with my hardware out of the box so - no.
Now it's XP. Amazing how it manages to just work, not slow down, not gobble up GBs of RAM (I have 2GB, seemed not a lot for Vista), not display a bazillion annoy-dialogs at ever corner. I liked some of the smooth graphics effects in Vista but given how badly everything else sucks, I can do without them.
The one graphics effect that got stuck in my mind most was the "TATAAAAA - everything goes DAAAARK now, and in the center, out pops a 'security' dialog full of gibberish and wants me to click 'Allow'." I mean WFT???? Vista has got it right in so many little aspects - smooth transitions everywhere, a whole soothing feeling to the UI, and then that, the visual equivalent of a nuclear bomb going off in teletubby-land. And it happens ALL the time.
Yep, the bug is still there (partially because of it I've recently upgraded to XP/Ubuntu dualboot from that Vista thing).
Vista has a looong way to go to be suitable for everyday use.
Hasta la Vista!
I guess you don't read as I already replied, debunked and educated his ignorance. (not sure where it was posted) My G5 and Apple monitor has total, 7 USB ports, 2 firewire 800 ports and 2 firewire 400 ports.
Your service packs are our security updates. We get upgrades every 4 months or so and are free. So, Lyon FTW.
If you actually experienced the problems with moving (ie: Deleting, copying...) large files and had your brand new laptop hung up for days trying to dump garbage only to experience errrors, out of memory issues, etc. you'd not question the validity of this topic.
A beta tester for vista mentioned his troubles with this on another site and actually told MS about this problem several times and obviously it's still not fixed. The hotfix is out there but it's on a need to use basis and you have to ask MS for it.
Why should this basic process be such a problem when previous OS had nothing of the sort? Who knows?
Now, somebody tell me why Vista is better than XP? (I said better, not prettier.)
and what the hell does "Preparing to delete mean anyway?"
"For those who are getting the network cramps, turn off QoS and IPv6 provided you aren't on or are your own domain. I killed both of those this afternoon and across the network xfrs definitely sped up."
Um yeah... Vista BSoDed when I did that.
Only change I noticed on reboot is that it took a lot longer to connect to the network. If it continues I'll probably turn QoS back on.
laurenbove: I've also experienced the slowdown. I've taken to avoiding explorer and using the robocopy command line utility instead. One of the few GOOD new things in Vista.
And it seems the QoS and IPv6 thing IS working. I think connections are establishing faster than they did before.
I bought a new Vista Ultimate notebook for my wife and each and every time she tries to open a file, from any application, it takes a minute or more for the "file open" dialog box to populate. She has 600 mb of Word files on a flash drive and it is sync-copied into a briefcase on her hard drive. Her old (P-III) machine and her office computer, both running XP Pro, have no trouble with opening files. But her new VISTA Ultimate machine, with 2 gb RAM, an Intel core-duo processor and 120 gb hard drive chokes EVERY time she tries to open a file. The computer is unusable, as far as she is concerned.
This is genuinely rediculous, I started a operation 20 mins ago to extract a 2MiB zip.
After about 1 min of "Calculating time remainin" it claimed 1hr20min..
Left it for 15mins and it was sticking to this (got down to about 55mins, at 15Bps).
Cancelled then restarted the whole operation, 35secs of calculating time, 40secs of transfer.. exact same zip.. identical in every way..
Geuinely wish this was an exaggeration.. but it really isnt
OK
Remote differential compression unchecked
Indexing unchecked
Windows defender inactivated
DFS unchecked
According to all cures to apply
Unfortunatey still 50 seconds to rename or delete a directory...
Nothing found on microsoft. Better install ubuntu.
I saved and erased all events in events observer and now copy/rename etc... works fine.