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Copy Tooo Long
  1. #1


    Veldmuis Guest

    Copy Tooo Long

    Hi

    I want to copy or move file from a CD to my hard drive , it took 59 Minutes
    for 432MB , how can I do it faster. I use Vista Ultimate !



    Thanks

    Eugene

    Ps. Any new software for it or a fix ?


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  2. #2


    Jon Guest

    RE: Copy Tooo Long

    No you can't do it faster, for some bizarre reason windows vista is
    incredibly slow at copying things, oh and beware I've moved files from one
    drive to another with vista and they've mysteriously disappeared. I'm now
    back on XP.

    "Veldmuis" wrote:

    > Hi
    >
    > I want to copy or move file from a CD to my hard drive , it took 59 Minutes
    > for 432MB , how can I do it faster. I use Vista Ultimate !
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    > Eugene
    >
    > Ps. Any new software for it or a fix ?
    >


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  3. #3


    Keith Hill [MVP] Guest

    Re: Copy Tooo Long

    "Jon" <Jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:BD9B8348-5239-4CDE-8958-1D7B19293F3B@microsoft.com...
    > No you can't do it faster, for some bizarre reason windows vista is
    > incredibly slow at copying things,


    Yeah I've also noticed that copying files on Vista is pathetically slow. Is
    it because of the shadow copy backup feature? Hopefully Microsoft
    addresses this issue in SP1.

    --
    Keith


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  4. #4


    tim Guest

    Re: Copy Tooo Long

    How soon to SP1(I assume that is the 1st major patch?)? Does it make sense
    that a computer over 3 years old could do something that a new computer
    running Vista can not. I really do not understand why this would be an issue
    except that Vista is trying to do to much and ends up doing nothing. It
    appears the only way I can import family pictures from my saved CDS is to use
    the import pics function which will lose the folders they are saved
    under...using explorer causes "not responding" to occur. How does this get
    by quality control or is it user error in my case? I have 2GM memory. Is
    that not enough?

    Thanks,

    Tim

    "Keith Hill [MVP]" wrote:

    > "Jon" <Jon@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    > news:BD9B8348-5239-4CDE-8958-1D7B19293F3B@xxxxxx

    > > No you can't do it faster, for some bizarre reason windows vista is
    > > incredibly slow at copying things,
    >
    > Yeah I've also noticed that copying files on Vista is pathetically slow. Is
    > it because of the shadow copy backup feature? Hopefully Microsoft
    > addresses this issue in SP1.
    >
    > --
    > Keith
    >
    >

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