Dont Hurt Yourself
February 2nd, 2008
As I was zipping up a project I wanted to test it, by unzipping it and running it in a different folder. While zip archive compress text files great it shouldn’t take two minutes for such little amount of files!
Well apparently the vista file copy algorithm was completely re-written, that’s why you are seeing excessive times in the copy dialog box. But be rest assured that with SP1 it will return to the XP style.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001058.html
By the way, your password email thing for new accounts takes forever!