Any way to turn off "Calculating time remaining"

[Nick Payne]

When performing a copy or delete. I just find it annoying. I'd much rather
it just does the copy or delete and not waste my time tyring to figure out
how long the job will take. I gave up believing "Microsoft time" a long time
ago...

[dvanhorn]

I agree, it seems entirely useless and annoying.

The deletion of files has been improved from a relatively quick and simple
process to a horrifically slow and inefficient one.

I agree, deleting files runs much slower than in XP. And I get reproducable
errors when trying to delete folders which contain subfolders. The error
message denotes the folder being in use by another program. Deleting the
subfolders from the deepest level (when there ist no subfolder in it), done
one by one is no problem. That mainly happens when aranging the start menu.

Btw, copying and moving large files (1-3 GB per file, copied to a network
share on a server 2003) is now done with an excellent speed I`ve never seen
in XP.

Now that's good news. XP was slow as heck, when it actually worked. Most
of the time I get disconnected and the copy fails.

[TRK]

I have 10Gig to copy from one HD to another. It is simply impossible from
the GUI due to copy time estimating. Try 16 hours. This is a severe bug in
RTM. I'm still waiting on an answer to turning this off or a hotfix. This is
bad.

[paulklerkx]

Hi,
I had the issue with not being able to copy files across a network.
After trying every fix I could find on the net ( and there are heaps of ideas out there), and trying the patch from Microsoft KB931770, a colleague sent me a link to the following site -

They have a patch that fixed the issue for me.
It is called "Vista TCP/IP and UAC AutoPatch 6.0 *update* " ( at the bottom of the home page when I went there.)
After running the patch and a reboot, I am now able to copy files at full speed.
I don't know why the patch works, but after 2 weeks of trying to get the issue fixed, I don't care why it works, just that it does :)

Paul Klerkx

[Flash Gordon]

I keep getting the 'does not have ownership privileges' when trying to
install these files.

Even though it is MY home comp and I am the owner/administrator.

How to get around this problem?

[rpbarbati]

Use XCOPY ot XCOPY32 from a command window - it is much, much faster than
windows explorer, and with the /c switch, it will not stop on errors (in
other words, you can copy entire directory trees without wondering when or
why it is going to blow up).

As in...

XCOPY sourcedir\. targetdir /s /e /c /i

Enjoy! P.S. Under Vista, look into the command ROBOCOPY.

[paulklerkx]

I originally found a fix for this to be a patch ( mentioned in an earlier post) however after a reboot the issue returned.
After extensive testing, I have found the issue to be my Billion 5102 router.
connected my XP PC to my vista laptop via crossover instead of using router and copying starting working correctly. thought that, in case anyone is still looking for a fix, this may be useful.

[kbou]

I had this problem while deleting or moving files. It also took ages to rename a file. The problem was solved by disabling "windows search" service. For unknown reasons although I had indexing disabled in windows options, the service was still in automatic and created a lot of errors in windows logs. After disabling the service (administrative tools->services) everything works OK. Hope it helps!

[musicnyc]

That was the answer, at least for me--turning of windows search service. You can do it in Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services. Set Windows Search Service to Disabled.

Now files delete without any hang.