Endless Paradigm

Quote:It's been almost nine months since wee first reported on Windows Vista's inability to copy, delete and move files without stalling indefinitely, and yet the problem continues.

Screenshot of Windows Vista copy window

Screenshots relayed this week by two Reg readers say it better than wee 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 wee'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.

Wee 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 installed vista sp1 and works fine now,.. check "tech news section!!"

Oh, that's not much! Only 36843 Days!
I once did that in 36843 seconds, that's much more!

By the way, i used the EP Calculator for that... if it exists. :P

Quote your original source Squee like El Reg.

But a year on from launch and even the simplest of the big problems have not been solved, hurry up Vienna.

lol never had that issue.

lol. yet another complain about vista.

ah... feels good to be on xp =)

actually i hate how long the transfers take to estimate and my friend just got a new pc

Bah, I'da waited it out.  Maybe it was overestimating?

well you are moving 24gb at once.

Syfe Wrote:well you are moving 24gb at once.

So think it's Ok to take 100 YEARS to copy 24Gb, when most cheap HDD's have sustained write rates of around 60Mb/sec?