Forever to delete files

sometimes when I need to delete a bunch of files the system just kinda hangs
there. For example, when I had to delete windows.old directory, after
finally figuring out how, the system just sat there for about 5 minutes
before it even began deleting the files. Why does it seems to take longer to
delete files than it did in XP?

I had this problem today also, though I am using build 5536. I needed to
delete an old game folder that had a few thousand files in it and I thought
it was going to take until the end of time for it to finish.

"Chris" <> wrote in message
news:F2CDDB50-9705-4F15-A5B8-...
> sometimes when I need to delete a bunch of files the system just kinda
> hangs
> there. For example, when I had to delete windows.old directory, after
> finally figuring out how, the system just sat there for about 5 minutes
> before it even began deleting the files. Why does it seems to take longer
> to
> delete files than it did in XP?

I had the same problem in both beta2 and in RC1, I runned on 512MB RAM with
aero, but the rest of the OS worked fine, except when deleting or moving
large amounts of data. now i have installed 2GB RAM and the problem doesn't
exist anymore...

--
Ole - André Johansen

"Chris" <> wrote in message
news:F2CDDB50-9705-4F15-A5B8-...
> sometimes when I need to delete a bunch of files the system just kinda
> hangs
> there. For example, when I had to delete windows.old directory, after
> finally figuring out how, the system just sat there for about 5 minutes
> before it even began deleting the files. Why does it seems to take longer
> to
> delete files than it did in XP?

I have the same problem, but plugging in an additional Gig of RAM ........

I prefer a real solution.

The workaround I used is deleting the files by using file sharing and
deleting it from the remote computer. Works fast, but of course not exactly
what you want.



"Ole Andre Johansen" wrote:

> I had the same problem in both beta2 and in RC1, I runned on 512MB RAM with
> aero, but the rest of the OS worked fine, except when deleting or moving
> large amounts of data. now i have installed 2GB RAM and the problem doesn't
> exist anymore...
>
> --
> Ole - André Johansen
>
> "Chris" <> wrote in message
> news:F2CDDB50-9705-4F15-A5B8-...
> > sometimes when I need to delete a bunch of files the system just kinda
> > hangs
> > there. For example, when I had to delete windows.old directory, after
> > finally figuring out how, the system just sat there for about 5 minutes
> > before it even began deleting the files. Why does it seems to take longer
> > to
> > delete files than it did in XP?
>
>