Windows Vista takes 36579 days and 21 hours to copy 24 GB data
Recently I wanted to repartition the hard drive in my desktop. So I was saving all those important files to an external hard drive before I partitioned. But as soon as I performed the cut/paste function for the whole 24 GB of data with just 73 files, I was surprised to see the amount of time Vista showed for copying the 24 GB data. Yes it showed 36579 days and 21 hours, that’s probably more than 100 years time. Vista is notoriously known for the extremely high time it takes for copying data but this much time is not at all acceptable. Though Microsoft claims that this copying time has been improved with SP1, that’s not true coz mine is updated to SP1. Only Microsoft knows what algorithm it has developed to calculate this copying time. Here is the screen shot I took as soon as I saw this funny behavior.
Click on the image for a bigger version of it. If you have captured any such instance of Vista’s behavior, post t n comments.
Note: Infact the complete data was later copied in around 30 minutes time.
Comment by phoenixmentor on 28 December 2008:
Now you know where you will be when you are 100.
Comment by Paul Bauer on 16 January 2009:
FTW! LOL! It must be a bug, or something in Vista. How long did it really take to copy?
Comment by Ajay M on 16 January 2009:
It took approximately 30 mins to copy finally.
Comment by vanman on 9 February 2009:
Vista only lasted a few weeks on my PC, I purchased Vista ultimate after reading all the reviews, but just couldn’t get to grips with it. Windows XP has its faults but its the better of the two. When you are paying that much money for a copy of Vista should there really be any bugs there in the first place.
Comment by Inkoh on 13 March 2009:
I wonder what experiences you have with Vista.
I have XP but when buying a new computer you get Vista with it.
Now I hear that exchaining files from a Vista pc, with people using XP might give difficulty cause of incompatiblity.
Are there people here know more about this?