Bruno, I'm just saying that I haven't seen this problem on every single computer running Vista, and I'd be willing to bet that I see more of them in individual installations than you do.

That said, I haven't been happy with file transfer on any version of Windows, even though I've never personally had an installation perform as slowly as you're seeing. That's why I use Teracopy, which I highly recommend to everyone running Windows, just for the advanced things you can do with it. I'm very much considering paying for the full version, which will even let you add and remove files from a transfer queue.

Two more points:

- Windows 7 has slightly improved file transfer performance, both in speed and information. It will tell you the current speed and which file is transferring. But I still installed Teracopy.

- I make no defense for HP laptops. I've disliked all the models I've come across, and I refuse to believe that your friend doesn't have crapware on there. HP puts on twice the amount of crapware and company branded software that Dell does.