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Vista Slow To Copy, Delete Files
Bruce Schneier has said that trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. With Vista, Microsoft seems to have done a pretty good job of making premium content files not copyable. Now a few readers have tipped us to a new wrinkle: Vista also makes it very, very slow to copy, rename, or delete ordinary files. Here is a Microsoft TechNet thread on the problem. The Reg reports that Microsoft has a hotfix for what sounds like a subset of the more general problem complained about on TechNet; but they will only give it to customers who ask nicely. And a hotfix is fussier to install than a proper patch.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Vista fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Vista PC (a Core 2 Duo E6600 w/2 Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my 8600/300 running Mac OS 8, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Vista PC, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Firefox will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Notepad is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Vista PCs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Vista PC that has run faster than its Mac counterpart, despite the PCs' faster chip architecture. My 68040/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 2.4 ghz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Vista PC is a superior machine.
Vista addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Vista over other faster, cheaper, more stable operating systems.
1. Do not use windows explorer file manager, use a 3rd party, its always 5-200x faster, MS programmers are newbie lamers, why do you think they got the job.
2. even dos based norton commander is faster.... whats ms doing.... Show us the code idiots!, we can fix it because your too lame.
3. Often it the product managers fault, "oh it workse, not the fastest, but it works, case CLOSED" your task is to now to X feature. Slave programmers
at MS dont have the freedom to say, "this code sucks, let me spend 5 days making it 9000 TIMES FASTER, COZ IT BLOWS ASS", Manager being a R-Tard accountant
golf playing monkey doesnt care, he wants his $900,000 bonus, so he can give you a $2000 bonus for good work.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
Cue the "Bill, is that you?" jokes!
WHO NEEDS SHIFT WHEN YOU HAVE CAPSLOCK/ DAMN1
A friend of mine in the UK spend 3000 Great British Pounds Sterling Quid on a new PC (that's roughly $6,000 USD to you Yanks). It's got vista on it, naturally. He asked me to look at it because absolutely nothing works on it, except the screen, keyboard and mouse. Not 1 of the 10 or so games he bought will even install, let alone run. Can't get on the internet to look for Vista drivers because it won't recognize the wireless NIC. If it was XP, I might be able to help him out. But I've never even seen Vista and refuse to touch it even if I had someone else hands to touch it with.
So he's effectively paid 3 grand for a silent hi-def DVD player.
Yeah, I'd be pissed too.They suck because Vista is probably spending 99% of its CPU cycles asking "Is this a DRM'ed file?" "Am I *SURE* this is not a DRM'ed file?", "Have I checked the internet to make SURE this file isn't pirated?", "Have I informed the NSA about this file transfer?", "Is this a genuine copy of Windows?", "Well, it appears to be genuine, but have I checked Microsoft's website just to be sure?", "Is this the genuine Microsoft website?", "Is file microsoft.com/index.asp a DRM'ed file?", etc.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.