Re: Windows Explorer (rant)

Charlie Tame

Daniel wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have Ultimate 32, I just read an article in a PC Magazine decrying
> Windows Explorer, saying
> how useless it was and how another program was much better.
>
> Now I'm not sure what the author wanted explorer to do but unless he
> wanted it to get up and
> cook his breakfast as far as I can tell Windows Explorer does what it is
> supposed to do,
> IE. List the contents of your hard drives, folders and sub folders.


Copy some large folders to another machine or the same machine and watch
it crash. Do the same in Ubuntu and watch it fly to completion with no
problems. Debian seems even quicker.

Windows Explorer DOES have problems and has apparently always had
problems. Why, after all these years?

Richard in AZ

"[signious]" <> wrote in message news:49456d4a$...
> vista has made file copying slower and less stable that it was with xp...
> they claim that its better, but the results are there to show how bad it
> really is.
>
> plus the WE interface is very badly designed.
>
>
>
> "Charlie Tame" <> wrote in message
> news:.gbl...
>> Daniel wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have Ultimate 32, I just read an article in a PC Magazine decrying
>>> Windows Explorer, saying
>>> how useless it was and how another program was much better.
>>>
>>> Now I'm not sure what the author wanted explorer to do but unless he
>>> wanted it to get up and
>>> cook his breakfast as far as I can tell Windows Explorer does what it is
>>> supposed to do,
>>> IE. List the contents of your hard drives, folders and sub folders.
>>
>>
>> Copy some large folders to another machine or the same machine and watch
>> it crash. Do the same in Ubuntu and watch it fly to completion with no
>> problems. Debian seems even quicker.
>>
>> Windows Explorer DOES have problems and has apparently always had
>> problems. Why, after all these years?
>

I just copied a 6 GB file from an external drive without problems in less than 5 minutes, where it took over 45 minutes to copy to the drive from a Windows XP machine. A lot depends on what the computers have on them and what hardware is used, not the OS.

Daniel

"Richard in AZ" <> wrote in message
news:#.gbl...
> "[signious]" <> wrote in message
> news:49456d4a$...
>> vista has made file copying slower and less stable that it was with xp...
>> they claim that its better, but the results are there to show how bad it
>> really is.
>>
>> plus the WE interface is very badly designed.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Charlie Tame" <> wrote in message
>> news:.gbl...
>>> Daniel wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I have Ultimate 32, I just read an article in a PC Magazine decrying
>>>> Windows Explorer, saying
>>>> how useless it was and how another program was much better.
>>>>
>>>> Now I'm not sure what the author wanted explorer to do but unless he
>>>> wanted it to get up and
>>>> cook his breakfast as far as I can tell Windows Explorer does what it
>>>> is
>>>> supposed to do,
>>>> IE. List the contents of your hard drives, folders and sub folders.
>>>
>>>
>>> Copy some large folders to another machine or the same machine and watch
>>> it crash. Do the same in Ubuntu and watch it fly to completion with no
>>> problems. Debian seems even quicker.
>>>
>>> Windows Explorer DOES have problems and has apparently always had
>>> problems. Why, after all these years?
>>
>
> I just copied a 6 GB file from an external drive without problems in less
> than 5 minutes, where it took over 45 minutes to copy to the drive from a
> Windows XP machine. A lot depends on what the computers have on them and
> what hardware is used, not the OS.

Exactly right, I have no problems at all with Windows Explorer, copying
folders that are over 20 Gig daily to a different hard drive. (backup copy)

cheers

Daniel