Windows 7, Deleting Large files is extremely slow. (Not going to recycle bin, permanent delete)

I found that the following enables you to copy / delete files with far less bother - thing get going instantaneously

• Control panel
• Programs
• Turn Windows features On or Off
• Remove the tick form Remote Differential compression

HTH

Hey photographer LiathWW: Buy an USB external card reader. MUCH faster than relying on the little processor in the camera, and no drivers to install. Betcha XCOPY will work on it too. Most CDs that come with cameras should be treated like the ones given to you by your ISP: They should be carefully folded in half before use. :-)

And so, here we are in 2012, and yet, after installing Win7Pro(64-bit), all updates applied), I download an install, and run it. Typically, it creates an unwanted desktop shortcut. So I have 2 things to delete: The shortcut and the .exe installer.

The shortcut takes about 15-20 sec to get ready to delete, and 5 or more to actually delete.

Deleting the installer was worse. I thought at first it was going to tell me it was in use (I ckecked processes; no, nothing running). FINALLY it gets around for aking my permission, and then the delete takes a ridiculous amount of time too.

The added joy: It's not reliably repeatable. I can create folders and delete them in seconds. Likewise downloaded things, empty files, and anything else I can think of.  

Had a long look at the hotfix  kb/980382 but it does not seem to apply (the folders in my case had one (1!) file in each folder, so I am reluctant to apply it.

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 /PJF

Hey guys, I know something that generally works.

Use the command-line to do file operations. It sucks, but so far that seems to be the only real way to get around this.

I have more problems with dealing with multitudes of small 2MB files, and it

takes

forever

in

explorer.

So, I use the CLI. Press start, type CMD, and you're on your way. Some handy commands:

DEL - I use this one LOTS

robocopy - much faster than copy/xcopy. doesn't always work with certain devices like cameras.

Anyhow... hope M$ wakes up and figures out that when I want to do something with a file, I don't want to have to go make a sandwich, eat, watch a movie, come back and still be at "calculating"... just freaking DO IT already. Only time I want to see something like a calculating time screen is for massive amounts of data over a network or something, and then I'd reather it DO the operation I want, and calculate as it goes, not this "hey, lets make this busy photographer sit around for a week while we make useless calculations before we even do what he asked!" **** that it does now.

Sorry, little frustrated, as robocopy doesn't work with several of my cameras.

Luckily it does work with my main camera!

Delete large folders and files from the command-line interface.  Pretty well instant.

Takes no time to get there - marginally slower than the GUI, but not much.

/Start - type 'cmd'

Command-line interface comes up.

Navigate to the folder ["cd <folder path>"]

type "del *.*"

All gone.

I don't know what W7 is doing - clearly it looks at every file and thinks about it.  Not much point I'd have thought, since the files are going to be deleted anyway.  Like sorting through the trash before putting it on the street.

This has been going on so long, and is such a nuisance, that you'd have thought Microsoft could have fixed it by now.  Must be awfully complicated.

Anyway, I routinely delete folders with >10G files no problem.