Vista And File Transfers

The new and flashy OS from MS Stable, has some inherent problems, The most peculiar of them is the file transfer. It was first reported almost nine months ago and yet the problem continues.

Screen shots 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.

The slow copying of Vista has been experienced by many a users. It is just not limited to transfering files, but also disc writing. The built in engine is is snailish, to say the least. One user who was trying to write a DVD using the Vista in built engine, had a myth shattering experience when the system told that it would take 131 years to write 168 MB of data. Does it not make you jump out of your seats? 131 years for 168 MB of data? The similar job finishes in seconds on the seasoned pros like Nero. Now please do not eveb imagine for a second that this was tried on a some slomo machaine. This was experienced ona state of the art laptop. Problem is, the big guys at MS just plainly do not acknowledge this.

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.

It was expected that the problem would be rectified with coming of SP1. But even after the update is installed, many users are confounded to learn that the problem still persists.

To be fair, some participants on 478-post thread on Microsoft's TechNet site have reported success in eradicating the Vista malady. Some report SP1 does speed things up. Others have seen improvements after running through a series of steps that includes disabling Windows search service, tweaking Vista's user account control settings and setting network interface cards at half duplex or auto negotiate. Now, if MS expects all of its users to be nerds or geeks to carry out similar tweaks, then it has definitely lost touch with ground reality. Unimaginable, that a company would spend more than five years and millions of bucks and bring out a product worse than its predecessor. Way to go MS!