How hard can it be to do file copying? Vista SP1 still hasn't managed to nail it.

Besides the fact that copying over a network isn't reliable if I use the machine name (it'll just randomly cut out, I have to use the IP address), there's a more fundamental one: They can't estimate time.

So I'm looking at the above dialog. I can tell by the items remaining (and the GB remaining) that it's copying at around 8 megabytes per second. But the speed says 188k/sec.  So it uses that 188k per second to do teh estimate.  Right now, it says it'll take 16 hours and 57 minutes to do this copy when in fact it'll be done in probably 5 or 6 minutes. (and in the screenshot it said 8 hours, so I actually lost time).

Seriously guys, this is pretty basic stuff.  You can't manage to write a shell copy routine in 2008? I don't care if Google stole the guy who wrote it  (remind me to sell my Google stock). Fix this stuff. This is just incredibly sloppy.

And now at the end of this post, which took about 3 minutes to make it says:

So in 3 or so minutes, it copies about 1.5 gigabytes.  So...Microsoft, what is 1.5 gigabytes divided by 180 seconds?