Clear back to DOS, W95, and Windows NT, you could complete a delete of tens
of thousands of files in a few seconds. Now it takes many seconds to
calculate the time it will take and even longer to do the delete. The
problem of showing too much information has long been a problem in Windows
Explorer.

It kind of reminds me of the review recently discussed here comparing Vista
to MacOS where it talked about all the notifications from Windows Vista.
Sometimes it is just better to shut up and do the job rather than spend
several seconds and clicks telling us what it is going to do, then what it
is doing, and then, when it's all done, tell us what it did.

Dale

"Chad Harris" <getsomevistainfoout.net> wrote in message
news:On6CQh$NHHA.3552@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Yes--this is a good disappointing point. Even when you do everything
> possible to minimize CPU draw. And I continue to see the "glitch" some
> times when you move a file from one folder to another that there is a hang
> delay with that progress bar up if the file is a certain size or if the
> folder you move has a certain number of files within it..
>
> CH
>
> "John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
> news:O1wOYa2NHHA.5012@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>I have found lots of things slower in Vista, especially explorer.exe
>>items, such as copying or moving files and deleting them.
>>
>>
>> "Brett" <public_at_cygen_dot_com> wrote in message
>> news:Ox8VrJ2NHHA.4992@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>> "Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
>>> news:%232tqi7zNHHA.1248@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>> Do you have any mapped network drives or external media? Sometimes
>>>> retrieving the state of network drives or even CDROM drives can take a
>>>> few seconds when opening Computer or My Computer.
>>>
>>> I have mapped drives but if that was the problem, wouldn't it be slow in
>>> XP (same network)? By comparison, XP takes about 2 - 3 seconds before
>>> everything is displayed. Vista takes 8 - 10 seconds.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brett
>>>
>>
>
>