In Windows Vista’s Windows Explorer moving the folder MyFolder (containing 40,000 files, and roughly 3.5 GB) at C:\Users\MyUser to C:\Users\MyUser\Desktop takes roughly 2 to 4 seconds.
Moving the folder back via Windows Explorer takes about 23 to 25 seconds (!).
Moving the folder back and forth via “move” command in cmd.exe takes roughly 1 second.
Given that moving a directory on the same partition is a very cheap operation on NTFS, the last figure seems acceptable, the second one leaves me unsatisfied and the first figure – plus the fact that it is 4+ times as slow to move in the other direction – leaves me with the feeling that some Microsoft developers suck just as much as everybody else at programming.
Throw in the complaints about perceived performance issues in Windows Vista and I am at wits end as to what the heck the product managers and developers at Microsoft are thinking when they decide not to fix these issues.
The system specs:
Windows Vista Ultimate, SP1
AMD Dual Core 4450e
4 GB RAM
