vista and calculating time

by Jalokim August 1st 2008, 12:18 pm

I am sorry to say, but i'll be gone for about 100 years ... or until my files get copied ... well thats what vista says anyway:

vista and calculating time E10

WTF?? lol

by Doctor Inferno August 1st 2008, 12:24 pm

lol! that would take about 94 years!

what did you try to copy man? What the fuck ?!?

by Guest August 1st 2008, 12:39 pm

Doctor Inferno wrote:lol! that would take about 94 years!

what did you try to copy man?

Aren't you a smarty pants? Razz

by Dr. Jan Itor August 1st 2008, 1:05 pm

Doctor Inferno wrote:lol! that would take about 94 years!

what did you try to copy man?

porn?? duh

by Guest August 1st 2008, 1:35 pm

dude... that is not funny.

so i am guessing that vista takes a long time to copy files.

by Jalokim August 1st 2008, 2:17 pm

yeah, funny haha.
i was copying backup data from my old PC. The DVD got a little stuck and teh stats went wayhire

by Guest August 1st 2008, 2:46 pm

stuck... how?

by zakir321 August 1st 2008, 5:24 pm

I know that Vista used to have a copy-time problem, but that exceeds everything I was expecting. vista and calculating time Rofl10

by Doctor Inferno August 1st 2008, 5:32 pm

Hmm... you upgraded to Vista SP1 yet?

by Jalokim August 1st 2008, 6:21 pm

it is SP1 ... its the first time its happened...
I think its because of the DVD... it had a couple scratches ... and the DVD reader started choking as thus a 97 year wait ...

i didn't manage to make a screenshot later on... when it was 46k days and 0 hours

by Guest August 1st 2008, 7:41 pm

That's normal.. What? You haven't got 94 years to spare?

What on earth were you copying anyway?

by Guest August 1st 2008, 9:00 pm

If the system get jammed because your using to many resources then it calculates only the length of time it would take in that one moment it jams, giving you 94 years so on and so on

To stop this happening

1. Press "CTRL" + "Shift" + "ESC"

2. Locate "Explorer.exe"
There will be two at this point.

3. Select the one using the most memory and press "End Process"

This may stop the copying however try to copy it straight away and it "should" copy faster

remember to end process's that slow the system down before copying large amounts of data

You can also stop services to speed up copying

Superfetch

This is a utility that maintains and improves system performance over time. However it will index all resources slowing down the system.

To disable Superfetch

1. Click Start, type Services in the Start Search box, and then click Services in the search results at the top of the Start menu.

2. Locate the service Superfetch, Right click and select Properties

3. Under Startup Type select Disable and Stop the service

4. Click Apply and Ok and you should notice a change in your system speed

regards

Craig