Time remaining when copying...

[Dan]

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Hello

How come when Im copying some big folders (>2 GB) the window that show
that shows progress and has the time remaining in minutes acts so
strange. It goes from 60 minutes to 200 minutes to 10 minutes. It
doesnt act constantly.

How come this happen? Can I make it better in any way?

-Dan

 

[Guest]

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nope its the way it is, useally when your doing things at the same time of
copying etc windows is always trying to guess time to go. Useally it settles
down after a while, the best thing to do if its something big like that dont
do anything and it will speed it up. But there nothing you can do to change
this.

"Dan" wrote:

> Hello
>
> How come when Im copying some big folders (>2 GB) the window that show
> that shows progress and has the time remaining in minutes acts so
> strange. It goes from 60 minutes to 200 minutes to 10 minutes. It
> doesnt act constantly.
>
> How come this happen? Can I make it better in any way?
>
> -Dan
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

It is an "estimate" only, not an absolute, and changes upon the condition
of the computers usage at any given instant.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Dan" <gamesstate@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1114094716.411691.283350@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Hello
>
> How come when Im copying some big folders (>2 GB) the window that show
> that shows progress and has the time remaining in minutes acts so
> strange. It goes from 60 minutes to 200 minutes to 10 minutes. It
> doesnt act constantly.
>
> How come this happen? Can I make it better in any way?
>
> -Dan
>