March 10th, 2008

I can't be nice about this, since I spent my hard-earned money on something that just isn't doing the job: Windows Vista is unfinished crap. I've already gone on at length about all my troubles with it here and here and here and here. But this last one is by far the worst:

My version of Vista simply Will Not Copy files over the network, no matter how I configure, bribe, plead, or threaten. I've tried everything I've found online about it, and still no file copy. I now use my USB thumb-drive to copy files from a system to another, when one of them is Vista (all others work: Win2K, XP)—yes, "sneaker-net" is back. For brevity, here is a very brief summary of the things I've tried with no success:

... but none has worked.

I am not even slightly alone with this problem: Message boards are full to overflowing with people complaining about the same issues, and with the same results after fiddling: File copying across networks is either so slow as to be pointless, or just doesn't work at all (my own experience). Occasionally, one of the above things works for one person, but the overall mess is still there. I can't help it: It pisses me off to think that I spent money on this crap.

How can something as critical and basic to an OS be so poorly QA-ed? File copying is probably the most important function of an OS! It's functionality that people expected to work flawlessly as far back as the 1960s!

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