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...

Nick

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Christian Dreiner]

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.

 

[Don Lafontaine]

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.

TRK

 

[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?

FG

 

[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.

 

[spanky628]

This same thing happened to me. I called tech support. He said this was a virus that caused this problem because if you reboot in safe-mode and try to move-delete-add a file it doesn't do it. So I would recommend trying to get rid of the virus (name unknown) or as I did completely re-install Vista. Mine works good as new and fast now. Good luck!