[KoRn]

It does look pretty while trying to delete files though. :p

[SamAdams76]

Windows XP does this too. I've got 2GB of RAM on my system and hundreds of gigs of free space. Yet the simplest tasks (usually involving the deleting or copying of files) causes Windows to hang. You get the hourglass and the computer is totally locked up. Finally after much chugging away, the task is done and you can actually do other stuff.

I can have as many applications running as I want and no trouble at all. But as soon as I start doing something internal to Windows, all bets are off. Multitasking is a joke.

[aft_lizard]

I must be lucky because I don't have any such problem, but I am sure a bunch of neurotic MS haters who have never used Vista will chime in on how Linux or Mac is better.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I have been having this problem with my WinXP for some time now.

I no longer use Windows Explorer as my file manager.
I use a thing called TCUP. It has so many other things built into it, it makes Explorer look like a tricycle compared to a Harley.
And my files move, delete and copy lickety split. No more hourglass.

[supercat]

I do find myself amazed at the extent to which Microsoft can go æons without fixing key annoyances in their operating systems.

The "Boomerang" utility for the Macintosh (circa 1990) made its "file open" dialog box far superior to anything I've seen in any version of Windows in the sixteen years since. Why is Microsoft's dialog box so feeble?

[ShadowAce]

[shadowman99]

There's really no excuse for this. File manipulation is one of the core functions of any operating system.

[rock_lobsta]

Wow... Vista sucks...

What a hugh development!

[sionnsar]

ping