Vista: a 2mb zipfile takes 3 hours to extract then fails

Using Vista's inbuilt zip extraction it also seems to have no idea how long
the operation is going to take and makes wild stabs at the time - 2hours 44
minutes then 36 minutes, then 4 hours etc.

Using any 3rd party zip utility the same zip file extracts in less than 1
second with no problem.

File copying also takes ages using Vista. With XP it's fine.

This is all on my local machine's hard disk and not across a network.

On Dec 6, 10:53 am, gocat2005 <gocat2...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> Using Vista's inbuilt zip extraction it also seems to have no idea how long
> the operation is going to take and makes wild stabs at the time - 2hours 44
> minutes then 36 minutes, then 4 hours etc.
>
> Using any 3rd party zip utility the same zip file extracts in less than 1
> second with no problem.
>
> File copying also takes ages using Vista. With XP it's fine.
>
> This is all on my local machine's hard disk and not across a network.

Not sure if it is related to the Vista compression or the Vista CD
burner, but I used Vista folder compression to package 2gb of wav
files. Compression was great (about 170kb) and I took it to my friends
place. He has an imac. It could only see 4 of the wav files. We never
had this problem with XP and WinZip. I will have to try again with
WinZip and see what's what.

I had also put 17 MP3's on the disc. Oddly enough, when we put it into
his DVD player to listen to the MP3's, the player only recognized the
first 4 mp3's

I don't think the two are related, but it was curious that the common
demoninator is 4 in both cases.

"theclyde" <> wrote in message
news:e58a103f-f50b-4062-bff7-...
> On Dec 6, 10:53 am, gocat2005 <gocat2...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>> Using Vista's inbuilt zip extraction it also seems to have no idea how
>> long
>> the operation is going to take and makes wild stabs at the time - 2hours
>> 44
>> minutes then 36 minutes, then 4 hours etc.
>>
>> Using any 3rd party zip utility the same zip file extracts in less than 1
>> second with no problem.
>>
>> File copying also takes ages using Vista. With XP it's fine.
>>
>> This is all on my local machine's hard disk and not across a network.
>
> Not sure if it is related to the Vista compression or the Vista CD
> burner, but I used Vista folder compression to package 2gb of wav
> files. Compression was great (about 170kb) and I took it to my friends
> place. He has an imac. It could only see 4 of the wav files. We never
> had this problem with XP and WinZip. I will have to try again with
> WinZip and see what's what.
>
> I had also put 17 MP3's on the disc. Oddly enough, when we put it into
> his DVD player to listen to the MP3's, the player only recognized the
> first 4 mp3's
>
> I don't think the two are related, but it was curious that the common
> demoninator is 4 in both cases.

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