Vista RTM - Unzipping files is INCREDIBLY slow

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My overall Vista experience has been fantastic... but one huge issue is
performance of unzipping files... I can unzip a 15 MB file on XP in seconds,
but it takes MINUTES (like, 20+ minutes) on Vista. Any advice on how I can
speed this up? Or is it a known issue?

Thanks,
Josh
 
I'm using WinRAR as well...so far, I've been very disappointed with the
speed of trivial file operations within Vista. Sometimes, deleting a
desktop shortcut takes 10 seconds or more on a very fast machine w/ RAID0
configuration. Maybe SP1 will fix.

--Jason
 
I have no problem unzipping although I use winrar just 'cause it's safer and
no worries about odd corruptions. OTOH, copy/moving very large files is
painful, very painful I must agree.
 
Stuart said:
I'm disappointed with Vista file operations too. They are slower than
those from XP Pro. The "Calculating..." logic is useless on large
file operations. If I try to cancel a non-responsive file transfer,
Explorer will abort and take the gadgets and open programs with it. :(
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I'm delighted to hear I'm not the only person seeing this.

Explorer is horribly unstable in my tests. Complex file operations are both
much slower than they were on XP and also likely to bring explorer itself
grinding to a halt. Especially bad for me are network operations, whether
moving files to/from a server or another client, speed is very erratic and
stability plumbs new depths from the already god-awful plateau it had
obtained already.
 
Robert Moir said:
I'm delighted to hear I'm not the only person seeing this.

Explorer is horribly unstable in my tests. Complex file operations are both much slower than
they were on XP and also likely to bring explorer itself grinding to a halt. Especially bad
for me are network operations, whether moving files to/from a server or another client, speed
is very erratic and stability plumbs new depths from the already god-awful plateau it had
obtained already.
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I agree. For me, almost everything about Vista's Explorer is inferior in
performance to XP. Moving/copying files to different folders and
moving/copying files to/from a networked computer are intolerably
slow. Amazingly/ironically, using a virtual WinXP in Vista has provided
me with a semi-solution. I use the virtual XP to move files back and forth
from stuff I dump in Vista's Public folder which I have set to Share.
It is much faster/easier for me to use a *virtual* XP to move files back
and forth from other networked computers to Vista. That's almost funny.


-Michael
 
Are you using RTM? I'm still with RC2 and was hoping that it had been fixed
by now.
I find that program installs are getting slower by the day, I could have
sworn that when I first started with Vista that an install would start up
straight away, now it sits there thinking about it for ages.

Ray
 
Ray said:
Are you using RTM? I'm still with RC2 and was hoping that it had been
fixed by now.
I find that program installs are getting slower by the day, I could
have sworn that when I first started with Vista that an install would
start up straight away, now it sits there thinking about it for ages.
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Yes, I'm still RTM. I've not noticed a big problem with installs, just file
operations in explorer.
 
Im having trouble getting my vista home premium to unzip full stop.
The right click options to unpack dont seem to work, leaving me to have to
go through the whole process from the winrar main program itself.
With moving files, I tried to copy some music files across from dvd back
onto the pc - vista told me it would take 4 days to move 20 albums !!!
Needless to say , Im now listening from the dvd without copying them over. :S
 
I'm trying to use the released version of Vista, but it is so slow that I am
seriously considering going back to XP!
I switched the PC on an hour ago and it stopped responding whilst loading a
program. About 45 minutes ago I gave it the 3 fingered saluet (Ctrl Alt
Delete), but I still have not had a response.
This is typical of my experience with Vista.
After a few hours, if I have the patience it will come back to life, but
cutting the power may be quicker.
It doesn't do this every day, sometimes it works like my old ME PC, which
isn't good as the new PC has dual 3.0ghz P4 processors a gig of ram and 200gb
SATA disk, vs 800mhz P3, 512mb and 20gb IDE disk.
 
Steve said:
I'm trying to use the released version of Vista, but it is so slow that I am
seriously considering going back to XP!
I switched the PC on an hour ago and it stopped responding whilst loading a
program. About 45 minutes ago I gave it the 3 fingered saluet (Ctrl Alt
Delete), but I still have not had a response.
This is typical of my experience with Vista.
After a few hours, if I have the patience it will come back to life, but
cutting the power may be quicker.
It doesn't do this every day, sometimes it works like my old ME PC, which
isn't good as the new PC has dual 3.0ghz P4 processors a gig of ram and 200gb
SATA disk, vs 800mhz P3, 512mb and 20gb IDE disk.
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Are you using the latest drivers? Is the program that's crashing
advertised as Vista compatible?
 
No programs are crashing, Vista itself is hanging.
The mouse moves and the sidebar performance gadget changes, but nothing else
happens.
How do I tell whether I'm using the latest drivers? I only upgraded to Vista
on 18th Jan, can they have gone out of date since?

BTW Vista reports my Samsung SP2004C SATA drive as a SCSI disk, could that
be part of the problem?
Thanks for your reply,
 
I'm trying to use the released version of Vista, but it is so slow that I
am
seriously considering going back to XP!
I switched the PC on an hour ago and it stopped responding whilst loading
a
program. About 45 minutes ago I gave it the 3 fingered saluet (Ctrl Alt
Delete), but I still have not had a response.
This is typical of my experience with Vista.
After a few hours, if I have the patience it will come back to life, but
cutting the power may be quicker.
It doesn't do this every day, sometimes it works like my old ME PC, which
isn't good as the new PC has dual 3.0ghz P4 processors a gig of ram and
200gb
SATA disk, vs 800mhz P3, 512mb and 20gb IDE disk.
Click to expand...

Make sure you have the latest BIOS update for your computer because my
friend had problems and they went away after upgrading the BIOS to the
latest.
 
Steve Franks said:
No programs are crashing, Vista itself is hanging.
The mouse moves and the sidebar performance gadget changes, but nothing
else
happens.
How do I tell whether I'm using the latest drivers? I only upgraded to
Vista
on 18th Jan, can they have gone out of date since?

BTW Vista reports my Samsung SP2004C SATA drive as a SCSI disk, could that
be part of the problem?
Thanks for your reply,
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That sounds like either an Indexing issue, or a Video driver issue.

Turn off Indexing, see if that helps.

I also experienced a slow-down on computers which should have been more than
capable for Vista after the initial installation. Once the Index was built,
however, it speeded up quite nicely.

Your computer should be more than snappy enough for Vista to run quite
snappy.
 
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