Michael Banzon

At the moment I have some spare time to write something. For the silliest of reasons! I’m waiting for Windows Vista to extract the content of a ZIP-file.

Usually it has been the content of World of Warcraft addons – which generally doesn’t contain that many files. This time it is the win32 source code of the Apache HTTPD server.

The ZIP-file downloaded had a size of 9.4MB and the total download time was about 30 seconds to a minute. Windows Vistas current estimate is 1 hour and 46 minutes to complete. I really can’t see why this should be the case. Yes it is a lot of small files. Yes it is a whole lot – but come on – give me a break! Windows XP performed better than this!

If someone can shed some light over this please do so – I’m dying to find out why it is so freakin’ slow!