The job has hit the point where I'm copying large files, which of course means I'm mostly sitting there waiting for the filecopy to finish. Easy stuff, obviously, but it's frustrating, partly because I prefer to be doing something, and partly because a fucking network hiccup can kill 20GB file transfers on a dozen different computers simultaneously and make me have to start the entire fucking process over. (This happened to a machine that had "35 seconds remaining" on its dialog today. I am not kidding.)
So out of curiosity, has Windows 6.x fixed MS's fucking unbelievably bad, inadequate, 1980's-era filecopy? Like, is Explorer now prepared for the fact that people sometimes make 90-minute network downloads? Because XP sure as hell isn't. (Of course, at least it's just ONE big file on each machine in this case. It's much worse when you're copying a huge directory structure, have trouble copying one file, and Explorer terminates the entire copy halfway through with no easy mechanism for picking up where you left off without overwriting the files that DID copy.)
(I am aware there are third-party tools that will handle interruptions/resumes, and there even seem to be a couple MS ones, though I'm not sure if they support network directory paths. But I'm not sure it's worth the effort to get approval to install additional software on these computers, given that this is only a two-week contract and this is a medical organization and therefore there's even more red tape involved in getting software approved than in a typical job.)