Should i wait 128 years? need help

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winngames

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lol think i need a new laptop :P
 
I mean the actual On-screen Estimate Time/Speed Guide not the actual transfering files.

It can give BS readings of time and speed, and if you hit More Info it can act up although PC still continues to transfer files.

I know MS fixed the actual issue in SP beta's I am a tester. ;)
 
I upgraded my laptop 2 weeks ago by getting rid of Vista! Yeehaaw!

I am now running NOT THE VISTA on my laptop because transferring a source code repository from a client's cd to my virtual machine on my Vista shod laptop took 2 hours, and they were clearly not amused - ok, I was getting paid by the hour :) BUT that was a bit of an errrr, must be a vista thing .. sort of embarrassing moment! I tested it later on the XP dual boot into the same VM and it took 10 minutes FFS!!!

I'll try Linux next methinks :D
 
to be fair you're copying from a dvd/cd which must have trouble reading it. XP would behave in the same way. You'd think XP/vista would detect something was wrong and give you the option to cancel (not wait 2 hours cancel).
 
Actually, I've seen similar with Vista too. Reading a certain CD (not DVD) of photos would take forever and then just stop altogether. Try the same disk in XP on the same PC (dual-boot) and it would work fine at normal speeds.

I never tried to find out what was wrong (didn't care to be honest, as Vista was the primary OS on that machine), but it was only on a certain brand of blank disk, burnt on another PC. Twas strange indeed though. Never seen it since, on any PC.

Would be pre-SP1 then, but still can't imagine how a service pack could decide which CDs it chose not to read. :P
 
My computers weren't as bad, but copying a few GB would have taken days, unlike in XP/Linux 10's of minutes. Sorted after SP1 install.
 
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