Calculating time remaining...continued - Frank Rizzo

Like many people, my system (vista home premium) takes a century to copy
large files.  First, the File Copy dialog just sits there with title
about 10-20 times what it had taken XP.

I've taken the time to debug the problem a little bit, but haven't found
a solution.  Using process monitor from sysinternals.com, I've looked at
the explorer.exe process and in particular, what files it was accessing.

For whatever reason, it was scanning files on the USB drive (e.g. drive
I am trying to copy files to) like mad (maybe it was indexing, it's hard
to tell.

Then I tried it again and this time, explorer.exe was not touching my
USB drive and the file copy went pretty fast.

However, it all seems random.