What's wrong with Vista Business 64bits

What's wrong with this picture: Vista 64 Business fresh install with new
machine, disbled all the microsoft crap for the twit users, simply trying to
copy a file of 76,646 KB from an external drive to the C: drive, which works
on XP, is still trying to copy after 504 hours...yes we are letting it do it
stuff to see if the brilliant Microsoft product will come out of its cycle...

Any ideas why this is happening? Is it looking for a lift to Silicon Valley?

Chuck
Mon Apr 21 17:50:50 PDT 2008

If you are using RTM instead of Service Pack 1, this is a known problem. See
"Overview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1" at TechNet:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/20184cb6-7038-4e82-a32c-4bc10ffe56ab1033.mspx?mfr=true

--
-Chuck Walbourn
SDE, XNA Developer Connection

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warrenties, and confers no rights.

WhiteWica
Tue Apr 22 09:12:06 PDT 2008

Hi Chuck,
The other tech and me went through the SP1 and had to reformat the hard
drive and re-install Vista WITHOUT the SP1. I don't know what they've done
but when applying the SP1, Vista gets even worse!!! We can't even connect to
the domain anymore!!! And much, much more...like the marketers say.

The only way we can work with that Vista "FLOP" at the moment is to install
VMWare and install XP Pro on the VMware, that one works like a charm. So my
bosses question to us is: "why spend money putting in VIsta if we need to
install VMWare to all user and XP Pro to all users? Let's stay on XP and
that's it." He doesn't understand the corporate way of thinking: Make money
now and fix later.

So I don't think there is a solution to our problem, we are now up to 525
hours for the same little copy. We are stopping it because we proved to our
boss that it is a crappy OS not worth 5 cents.

Thank you for trying to help, but corporate training makes this
troubleshooting ludicrous and useless, and since we don't have Microsoft
money we cannot spend weeks looking at a monitor or doing little changes to
justify the salary of one of your student. We have salaries to cover too,
and for working people!

"Chuck Walbourn [MSFT]" wrote:

> If you are using RTM instead of Service Pack 1, this is a known problem. See
> "Overview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1" at TechNet:
>
> http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/20184cb6-7038-4e82-a32c-4bc10ffe56ab1033.mspx?mfr=true
>
> --
> -Chuck Walbourn
> SDE, XNA Developer Connection
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warrenties, and confers no rights.
>

R
Fri Apr 25 07:45:30 PDT 2008

Hi, WhiteWica.

If you just want to rant, go ahead. That's allowed here. ;^}

But if you want our help, you'll need to give us some information to work
with. So far, all we know about your computer is that it's running Vista
Business x64 and an external drive. In your next post, please tell us:

Make and model of your computer, or motherboard/chipset/CPU/RAM if you built
it yourself.
Make and model of your internal HD(s).
Make and model of your external drive AND how is it connected to your mobo.
Is it IDE? SATA? In an external enclosure?
Are all your drives formatted NTFS?
HOW are you copying that file? Windows Explorer? The Copy command from a
Command Prompt? From an Administrator:Command Prompt?

Stuff like that. Until we know such basic facts, we're just shooting in the
dark. We can't see your machine, remember?

Since I'm just one guy with one computer and no net (don't even know what a
domain is, really), I hope others will jump in and use the info you supply
to help you.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

"WhiteWica" <WhiteWica@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C6B0EA02-47D4-4844-A169-2741268FEEF7@microsoft.com...
> What's wrong with this picture: Vista 64 Business fresh install with new
> machine, disbled all the microsoft crap for the twit users, simply trying
> to
> copy a file of 76,646 KB from an external drive to the C: drive, which
> works
> on XP, is still trying to copy after 504 hours...yes we are letting it do
> it
> stuff to see if the brilliant Microsoft product will come out of its
> cycle...
>
> Any ideas why this is happening? Is it looking for a lift to Silicon
> Valley?