Vista and file deletion
I've been running Windows Vista for about a year and a half (my desktop hasn't been reinstalled once), and find it to be great. But every once in a while I still encounter the ridiculously slow performance issue where file operations take forever - even simply browsing into a folder with Explorer. Here is an example of a folder deletion of a small source project with a bunch of Git history in it that Windows has been busy deleting for a good half an hour now:
A whole bunch of fixes were supposed to have been included in SP1 but it seems like some problems still remain 
UPDATE: it's something to do with the folder being shared - and unsharing takes extremely long, while keeping the hard drive very busy. Possibly some kind of dodgy recursive file system metadata update? Deleting from the command line with "rmdir /s" solved the problem in the end.
January 17th, 2010 - 03:31
Where is the “rmdir /s”. This is a chronic problem with my laptop for about 3 months. Have had Vista since Jan 09 on a new laptop. All of a sudden on day this sam deletion window appeared and locks up my computer so I have to shut down and restart to get rid of the window. Also appearing at the same time was an explorer window that appeared wanting to know if I wanted to go to the last web site visited. This has been nerve racking and a problem since it started