Recently I wanted to repartition the hard drive in my desktop. So I was saving all those important files to an external hard drive before I partitioned. But as soon as I performed the cut/paste function for the whole 24 GB of data with just 73 files, I was surprised to see the amount of time Vista showed for copying the 24 GB data. Yes it showed 36579 days and 21 hours, that’s probably more than 100 years time. Vista is notoriously known for the extremely high time it takes for copying data but this much time is not at all acceptable. Though Microsoft claims that this copying time has been improved with SP1, that’s not true coz mine is updated to SP1. Only Microsoft knows what algorithm it has developed to calculate this copying time. Here is the screen shot I took as soon as I saw this funny behavior.

Click on the image for a bigger version of it. If you have captured any such instance of Vista’s behavior, post t n comments.

Note: Infact the complete data was later copied in around 30 minutes time.

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