Why is a move operation so slow?

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euroeddie

I just got Vista Home Premium and am fairly happy with it apart from the
issues listed at the end.
My question is: When I move a folder to another folder, why does the move
operation take so long? I switched from Mac OS X where the move, of course
on the same disk and partition, didn't require any wait time. With Vista, I
just moved a 6GB folder from the desktop to my home directory. It took five
minutes. Why the wait?

These other issues annoy me significantly - but I guess there's nothing I
can do:
- Mobile Device Center doesn't allow syncronization with Microsoft's built
in contacts and calendar system
- Microsoft Office 2007 Home/Student edition "send as email attachment" does
not appear if I don't have Outlook installed
- The dashboard can't be moved to the left side of the screen without having
icons automatically be deposited underneath the dashboard
- The startbar at the bottom is just as stupid as it's alway been - with
annoying balloon pop-ups, flickering multi-colored system tray icons.
- Lack of keyboard stroke method for minimizing or maximizing windows. I
like the ALT-F4 method, though.
 
6 Gigs in 5 minutes, and you are complaining, lol
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Because it was a 'Move' operation on the same HD which should have been
virtually instantaneous, since it doesn't have to read or write the 6Gigs,
just change the pointer to the file location.
 
If you want a quick key stroke to minimize all windows hold the win key down
(that's the one with the little microsoft flag on it - between the alt and
ctrl keys) and hit the letter m. If you want to see all your drives quickly
you can win + e

There are lots more keystrokes if you feel like searching for them.
 
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