LOL agreed.

CH

"Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
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> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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