{"id":1026,"date":"2008-01-14T17:25:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T22:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/01\/14\/im-sorry-but-windows-vista-still-seems-too-slow\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T17:42:58","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T22:42:58","slug":"im-sorry-but-windows-vista-still-seems-too-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/01\/14\/im-sorry-but-windows-vista-still-seems-too-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Sorry, but Windows Vista still seems too slow"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was downloading a file in Windows Vista today – I would say it was a “medium-sized” file that took no time at all on my super-fast cable modem connection to download.<\/p>\n

However, once it was done, this popped up:<\/p>\n

\"Calculating<\/p>\n

This new dialog took longer to calculate the time remaining<\/em> to copy the file from whatever insane temp folder Internet Explorer had used to its actual user-selected destination than it did to download the original file (which was not that small).<\/p>\n

I just don’t understand why this takes so long! It literally took less time to download the file from the Internet<\/em> than it did to put it in its final destination. Shouldn’t the reverse be true?<\/p>\n

Yet another reason why I am not upgrading to Vista. With any luck, by the time I’m forced to upgrade, Microsoft will have come out with Vista’s successor – which I hope will be, y’know, better <\/em>than its predecessor (unlike Vista itself).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was downloading a file in Windows Vista today – I would say it was a “medium-sized” file that took no time at all on my super-fast cable modem connection to download. However, once it was done, this popped up: This new dialog took longer to calculate the time remaining to copy the file from… Continue reading I’m Sorry, but Windows Vista still seems too slow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[90,62,97,388],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-commentary","tag-microsoft","tag-software","tag-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-gy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":845,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/02\/12\/why-i-wont-upgrade-to-vista\/","url_meta":{"origin":1026,"position":0},"title":"Why I Won’t Upgrade to Vista","author":"Keith Survell","date":"February 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Why I won't Upgrade to Vista: Three letters: DRM.","rel":"","context":"In "Rants"","block_context":{"text":"Rants","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/rants\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1057,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/03\/03\/perceived-performance\/","url_meta":{"origin":1026,"position":1},"title":"Perceived Performance","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Coding Horror: Actual Performance, Perceived Performance A brilliant post, one that points out something that we (as programmers) often miss. 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