Vista Sets New Land Speed Record For Moving Files

From The Register



My great-grandchildren will get all my pictures!

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We wonder why people are so anxious to downgrade their new machines to XP SP2.

Screenshots relayed this week by two Reg readers say it better than we ever could. "48167 Days and 23 hours remaining," one of them reads. "36843 Days and 0 hours remaining," states the other. Both are Vista's best-faith guesses as to how long it will take to copy data from one location to another.

When Adrian Procter, Reg reader, tried to create a CD with just 168Mb of pictures, Vista told him it would take more than 131 years to complete the job. So he canceled the job and used Nero 7. The task was completed successfully in a couple minutes.

Vista's Long Goodbye, as we've come to call this bug, is one of the more baffling things to come out of Redmond in recent memory. Copying files to a CD or across a network is not exactly one of the more exotic things a PC user can do, right? And yet, the problem continues.

With Microsoft's buggy code and non-existent communication, we'll be sitting on the upgrade sidelines for the foreseeable future, thank you very much.

We've got an old 1.6GHz, 1GB, 60MB Celeron Dell laptop for sale cheap that will burn DVDs, and it has XP SP2.  Any buyers?

I guess she can come work on my hard drive anytime. 

KD,
and after she is done with the HD, it will be a LIMP Drive.

ECA, I thought sure you were going to say, "Floppy Drive." 

Thats AFTER, someone its used up...

Ah, Windoze folks! You gotta love 'em.

Windoze works on your hard drive. Linux gently caresses it, optimizes it with a feathery touch and gets the most out of it without ever having  to clumsily thrash away at it for extended periods of time.

 

Optical illusion:  if you look reeeallly close in this picture, you can find an image of a penguin.

Darn, I can't find it.  Is it a tatoo somewhere? 

I see tats, but no tattoos...   

By squinting my eyes really tight, I can see two penguins. If there's any more there, I give up on trying to find them.