Should it really take 134 years to copy a file? @ The Experience Blog

Should it really take 134 years to copy a file?

Posted on October 5th, 2007 Andreas Stenhall 2 comments

During the day I’ve been working on creating an integrated installation CD for Vista x64 with all the drivers and patches. Copying the file install.wim from the Vista DVD to the hard drive would take around 49000 days to complete, which is equal to 134 years (!), according to Vista. Probably this is a bug in the function that calculates the remaining time, and probably this is fixed in Vista Service Pack 1, or perhaps even in the couple of performance and reliability fixes that has been launched recently. Although the below screenshot is in Swedish I can tell you that “dagar” = “days” in English.

Copying files, Windows Vista
2 responses to “Should it really take 134 years to copy a file?”
1. Waxinator October 10th, 2007 at 21:12
  
  This is not a bug, but a new Vista feature !
  
  Microsoft got fed up by all these estimated and inaccurate execution calculations.
  In Vista they introduced the new patented HETC (Human Experience Time Calculation).
  The time described is not the atomic precise estimation time, but “the time it feels like” !
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