Vista's long goodbye

Ice Tea · 28 Mar 2007 at 05:12

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/26/vista_copying_bug

Windows Vista suffers from a bug that causes many machines to stall while deleting, copying and moving files, a flaw that has provoked consternation in online forums.

Priapus · 28 Mar 2007 at 07:49

I've noticed this problem too, but I think it was fixed due to an update. Didn't really bother me to be honest.

DAS · 28 Mar 2007 at 19:39

I just thought it was slow! Thanks for posting that. I'll see if the hot fix makes any difference.

Ice Tea · 15 May 2007 at 04:53

"No end in sight for Vista's Long Goodbye"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/15/vistas_long_goodbye_continues/

NathanE · 15 May 2007 at 08:02

I've used 5 Vista machines including my own and have never seen this problem. Always install your chipset drivers.

Ice Tea · 15 May 2007 at 12:31

I never noticed it for the short time i was running Vista.

marc2003 · 15 May 2007 at 12:41

i've copied/moved loads of stuff via usb2 to external devices and never had a problem.

HEADRAT · 15 May 2007 at 12:49

I have noticed this problem, I have 3 drives in my machine, if I copy from drive C: to D: it's fine, if I copy from C: to E: it crawls!

Very odd !

HEADRAT

NathanE · 15 May 2007 at 13:07

HEADRAT said:
I have noticed this problem, I have 3 drives in my machine, if I copy from drive C: to D: it's fine, if I copy from C: to E: it crawls!

Very odd !

HEADRAT

Are the drives all on the same controller and/or channel? If not then that could be the problem... Install the latest drivers for your I/O controllers.

HEADRAT · 15 May 2007 at 13:10

They are all on the SATAII controller, to be honest it really hasn't bothered me that much, the network problem is the one that's driving me la la

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17685282&highlight=headrat

HEADRAT

NathanE · 15 May 2007 at 13:24

What motherboard is it?

HEADRAT · 15 May 2007 at 13:25

a8n-sli-deluxe

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=148&model=375&modelmenu=1

HEADRAT

EternalMovement · 15 May 2007 at 13:28

Not had any luck with the hotfix yet?

Jay123 · 15 May 2007 at 13:32

Why they using 256MB Ram??

512mb is the lowest for can go with vista... My god people are getting more stupid by the day ...

marc2003 · 15 May 2007 at 13:43

^^ you might want to read the article again...

Ronaldo · 15 May 2007 at 15:08

i got this problem yesterday. done fresh install of vista business done updates then copied 12GB over and noticed everything going very slowwwww.

the only thing i hate about Vista is that CPU is not efficient as it is in XP.
*** i mean is, i get good cpu score in XP and get way less in Vista but 3d gfx score is about the same

braveheart · 15 May 2007 at 15:22

I dont have problems in my Vista Ultimate x64 and copies seem so fast either 2 internal hard drive or one of my 120GB external hard drive and 2GB pen drive - it took few seconds to transfer... I moved 2 software games into 2nd drive from 1st drive about 131MB took 57 seconds... I used 2x500GB Seagate hard drive also 85MB transfer to my 2GB pen drive that lots quicker - dont see any problems.

kibblerok · 15 May 2007 at 18:44

I have noticed that a lot of times Vista tends to spend more time 'calculating time' to carry out file activities than it does actually doing them.

v0n · 15 May 2007 at 20:00

I just had the infamous Error 0x800705AA (Insufficient resources to copy file) when moving stuff to network share this morning. It's the first time i see it but for a machine with at least 800Mb free memory at all times and 3gb swap to not be able to move 600Mb file due to paging bug is just silly.

NathanE · 15 May 2007 at 20:04

kibblerok said:
I have noticed that a lot of times Vista tends to spend more time 'calculating time' to carry out file activities than it does actually doing them.

Not really

XP labelled this as "Preparing to copy...". Vista labels it as "Calculating time"...