"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
news:3a2vu21jgvbnklgqvf9e8m6unjaml88v48@4ax.com...[color=blue]
>
> Now the surprise benefit:
>
> As I commented on elsewhere this afternoon one annoying thing that's
> "broke" in Vista is when you copy or move files the progress bar
> doesn't always show progress till the very end after the file is
> already copied or moved. I only saw this behavior when moving large
> files, your milage may vary. Interested if others now get the correct
> reaction if they change their UAC setting like did.
>
> I have no idea why, but simply changing the UAC setting I just
> mentioned restores the progress bar to normal function...at least it
> did for me. Now it behaves much like in XP, showing a gradual progress
> bar and a real time remaing countdown as files get moved or copied.
> Its still off as far as showing how much time is remaining, way off as
> far as being accurate, but that was also broke in earlier versions of
> Windows.[/color]


I've been using that setting to automatically elevate UAC prompts for the
last four months, and I am sure that the progress bar is still broken. I'm
not so bothered about that as much as copying to the same drive taking ages.
Can't wait for SP1.

ss.