Philo,
Isn't the first thing checked by the police on computers deleted files?
Especially if some notice has been given to the perp. It would not surprise
me if the greedy Hollywood DRM crowd had Microsoft put a feature in Vista to
make it easier to catch their "perps". So maybe this is not such a far
fetched idea after all. At any rate, I would not dismiss it out of hand
especially if Microsoft wanted to curry favor with the Hollywood people to
make lucrative deals for themselves as far as offering movies or music
through Media Player.

Let's hear an explanation from Microsoft about what the cause of this
problem is and then the rumors will go away.
OR they can make the problem go away through a fix...some say the upcoming
sp1 does NOT fix it.

"philo" wrote:
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> "Hope" <Hope@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A490956F-7DFC-4705-BA0D-16B373956AEB@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > 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[/color]
> thousands[color=green]
> > 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[/color]
> so[color=green]
> > 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[/color]
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> > takes to COPY files or DELETE files. What is going on here? This is[/color]
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> > 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[/color]
> the[color=green]
> > 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[/color]
> feature[color=green]
> > (I use a free utility called "Cathy" so that I can just take a few SECONDS[/color]
> to[color=green]
> > 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[/color]
> half[color=green]
> > an hour waiting for a green bar to fill in.) and the irritating UAC which[/color]
> I[color=green]
> > got rid of within a week.
> > Isn't it time Microsoft fixed this?[/color]
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> It would be totally illogical for the OS to have to check DRM for a file
> being *deleted*...
> but of course...what does logic have to do with anything.
>
> I think SP1 has now come out of testing...
> so the problem may now be solved.
>
> OTOH: I've seen a few posts that SP1 breaks some drivers
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