"Hope" <Hope@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A490956F-7DFC-4705-BA0D-16B373956AEB@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Will there EVER be a fix for this in Vista??? There have been complaints
> since the betas about this.
> I spent 2 afternoons trying to delete Opera cache files which had been
> backed up to a USB drive. They totaled over 1 GB and thousands and
> thousands
> of individual files. I had to take 18 files at a time and delete them
> otherwise the computer seized up (I let it run for 45 minutes one time and
> so
> had to resort to this method to get the job done). Next time I'll use a
> suggestion I found on the 'Net....use Dos to delete or copy large files.
> Since the first time I booted up Vista, I have been annoyed at how long
> it
> takes to COPY files or DELETE files. What is going on here? This is
> slower
> than Windows 3.1 - how is this possible??
> The scuttlebutt on the internet is that each individual file is being
> checked for DRM; is this true?? If so, why is Microsoft POLICEMAN of
> the
> world?? The people interested in DRMing their wares should police this
> themselves, no? Am I wrong here?
> I like Vista EXCEPT for this problem, the "not responding" message which
> appears when the software really IS responding, the horrible search
> feature
> (I use a free utility called "Cathy" so that I can just take a few SECONDS
> to
> scan my hard drives, CD's, external drives when I want to and retrieve
> ANYTHING far faster than the Vista search which makes you sit there for
> half
> an hour waiting for a green bar to fill in.) and the irritating UAC which
> I
> got rid of within a week.
> Isn't it time Microsoft fixed this?[/color]


SP1 which is due out around Mid-March addresses this issue.