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Estimated Transfer Time Is No More In Windows 8

Posted by samzenpus on from the good-riddance dept.

MrSeb writes "Ahh, the Windows Explorer progress dialog. For years it has been struggling to figure out how to calculate how long our copy and delete operations would take, sliding the progress bar back and forth in a seemingly random, haphazard way, the laws of time all but ceasing to exist — five seconds remaining one moment and 13 minutes the next. That's (almost) all going to change, with the arrival of a greatly improved file management experience in Windows 8. Copy, move, delete, rename, and conflict resolution are all being overhauled and it's about time!"

6 of 456 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Will the file copy/move crash.... by SJHillman · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can copy files in Vista? I've never had the system stable long enough to try that.

  2. Windows really does that? by Anon-Admin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, I guess I am out of touch with windows flaws. I quit running windows back at windows 3.1.

    Ill stick with Linux until windows is ready for the desktop. ;P

  3. Re:Terrible summary & headline by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 3, Funny

    You read RTFA?

    You read RRTFA?
    Error Stack Overf%$3z/.$%#@

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  4. Re:Obligatory XKCD by Moryath · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not only that, it kicked my dog and stole my grandmother's false teeth!

  5. Re:Obligatory XKCD by dingen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah great! I like funny jokes a lot better than unfunny ones. Well done, blog administrator for including my favorite type of joke!

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  6. Re:Obligatory XKCD by GameboyRMH · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah Microsoft can't fix a feature that works fine in most other OSes so they remove it entirely. Great work guys. Great work.

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