Vista - Any way to turn off "Calculating time remaining"

When performing a copy or delete. I just find it annoying. I'd much rather
it just does the copy or delete and not waste my time tyring to figure out
how long the job will take. I gave up believing "Microsoft time" a long time
ago...

Nick

I agree, it seems entirely useless and annoying.

The deletion of files has been improved from a relatively quick and simple
process to a horrifically slow and inefficient one.

I agree, deleting files runs much slower than in XP. And I get reproducable
errors when trying to delete folders which contain subfolders. The error
message denotes the folder being in use by another program. Deleting the
subfolders from the deepest level (when there ist no subfolder in it), done
one by one is no problem. That mainly happens when aranging the start menu.

Btw, copying and moving large files (1-3 GB per file, copied to a network
share on a server 2003) is now done with an excellent speed I`ve never seen
in XP.


"Nick Payne" <Someone@nowhere.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> When performing a copy or delete. I just find it annoying. I'd much rather
> it just does the copy or delete and not waste my time tyring to figure out
> how long the job will take. I gave up believing "Microsoft time" a long
> time ago...
>
> Nick

> Btw, copying and moving large files (1-3 GB per file, copied to a network
> share on a server 2003) is now done with an excellent speed I`ve never
> seen in XP.

Now that's good news. XP was slow as heck, when it actually worked. Most
of the time I get disconnected and the copy fails.

I have 10Gig to copy from one HD to another. It is simply impossible from
the GUI due to copy time estimating. Try 16 hours. This is a severe bug in
RTM. I'm still waiting on an answer to turning this off or a hotfix. This is
bad.

TRK

"Nick Payne" <Someone@nowhere.au> wrote in message
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> When performing a copy or delete. I just find it annoying. I'd much rather
> it just does the copy or delete and not waste my time tyring to figure out
> how long the job will take. I gave up believing "Microsoft time" a long
> time ago...
>
> Nick

Hi,
I had the issue with not being able to copy files across a network.
After trying every fix I could find on the net ( and there are heaps of
ideas out there), and trying the patch from Microsoft KB931770, a
colleague sent me a link to the following site -

http://securevista.net/
They have a patch that fixed the issue for me.
It is called "Vista TCP/IP and UAC AutoPatch 6.0 *update* " ( at the
bottom of the home page when I went there.)
After running the patch and a reboot, I am now able to copy files at
full speed.
I don't know why the patch works, but after 2 weeks of trying to get
the issue fixed, I don't care why it works, just that it does

Paul Klerkx


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I keep getting the 'does not have ownership privileges' when trying to
install these files.

Even though it is MY home comp and I am the owner/administrator.

How to get around this problem?

FG

"paulklerkx" <paulklerkx.2zx6jg@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Use XCOPY ot XCOPY32 from a command window - it is much, much faster than
windows explorer, and with the /c switch, it will not stop on errors (in
other words, you can copy entire directory trees without wondering when or
why it is going to blow up).

As in...

XCOPY sourcedir\. targetdir /s /e /c /i

Enjoy! P.S. Under Vista, look into the command ROBOCOPY.

"Flash Gordon" wrote:

Is it possible to stop Vista wasting time on this stupidity every time I use
Explorer to copy anything. For example, I just copied a 4.3Gb DVD ISO
between two drives. It took Vista about 20 seconds to tell me that the copy
was going to take 15 minutes: it actually took about 6 minutes for the copy
to complete. And if I copy a large directory structure, it wastes even more
time giving me a completely inaccurate time estimate.

Nick

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 07:44:06 +1100, "Nick Payne" <someone@xxxxxx>
wrote:

Although it's true that the estimates are often wildly inaccurate, it
really doesn't waste any time preparing them. The reason for the delay
is just that it's waiting until it has what it thinks is enough data.
During that waiting period the computer's resources are available for
other uses.

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