Windows waiting problem [www.windows7taskforce.com]

http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/18

This is a low level problem. Applies to all of Windows and most software written for Windows. Vista made some progress with this, but still, it doesn't work as it should.
The problem:
Let's say you have a badly scratched CD (or even a good one, you'll still have to wait).
1. Put it in and close the tray.
2. Start "Computer"
3. You have to wait until the disk is finally read and initialized until you'll finally see all the icons and drives.

There are other examples of this. When you copy files from a crappy media, the whole explorer.exe process may hang for a while (so that includes your taskbar and desktop). Every file operation should be sandboxed (in separate process) so that when one operation has problems it doesn't stop other operations. That would also do good for problematic media and slow network connections.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• windows
• taskforce
• sandbox
• local
• and
• network
• disk
• operation

[vikgr8]

I have this problem on windows 7. it was working fine a few days ago, now all of a sudden, whenever i copy something onto one of my partitions, the computer hangs, and the transfer rate drops from 60mb/s to say about 2 mb/s, and then resumes after say 5-6 minutes...

[IAmAFugitiveOnTheRun]

I am having this issue with Windows 7.

Had VISTA Home Pre. for years without issue. Then it all of the sudden appeared a day or 2 before I decided to upgrade to W7 Ultimate. It carried right over it seems...?

Is there a soultion yet?