The Register has posted an article about the problem that users are still having in their computers that has a Windows Vista operating system.

The problem is, when deleting, transferring, or copying files, it takes a much longer time than it should be. It’s very slow compared to how the processing is done with Windows XP.

Two examples were given in the article. First, a user wanted to delete 23 GB of data and when he did it using Windows Vista, it took twenty-five minutes to complete the process. In a Windows XP Pro Virtual Machine that he has installed on top of Vista, the result is only eight seconds.

The other example is based on copying 3.8 GB of data in Windows 2003. When the same operating was done in XP, it is exponentially faster.

Source: The Register