smart computer use?

I think I like this one the most, out of all the Wordpress plugins I have installed and used. This really just does take the pain out of keeping Wordpress blogs updated. The Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin. Sweet words to my ears.

Really handy if managing many blogs

I think that the importance of using this plugin is magnfied if trying to manage many installations of Wordpress. Many sites will mean many upgrade procedures each time Wordpress releases a new version, which seems to be quite often and annoying to Wordpress users these days, really.

Just being able to make a few clicks to update a blog to the new version takes the pain out of the updating process.

Downloading new files, uploading to web server, running any scripts if necessary, disabling/reabling all plugins… stuff like that gets old fast. This plugin does it all for you. I like it.

Why my favorite?

Because of the fact that it seems that it is the plugin I interact with or come to appreciate the most on a regular basis. Sure, I like Google XML sitemaps for creating maps of my site easily, or even the Wordpress database backup plugin which magically emails me database backups, this one upgrade related plugin is just my prominent fav.

Once again, trying to install some plugins on a web site.

Here’s a great screenshot of Vista’s file copying glory. I’m simply trying to copy a folder of files to the desktop. The folder, as you can see, is not exactly a feat of file size.

I’m just getting done writing this post, taking and editing the screenshot, and proofing it for posting, and there’s still 40 seconds remaining on the file copy operation. I also went and got the power charger and plugged in my laptop.

I do see that there is a large amount of files. Could this be what is hanging up Vista?

I’ve been using Windows Vista for a couple months on a laptop. This has been my first experience with Vista. I have been pretty happy with the operating system overall, but there is one nagging thing I repeatedly get annoyed with.

Windows Vista, at least on my laptop machine, can’t copy or move files at a fast rate in many instances. I frequently have to wait 5-10 minutes to extract the files from an approximately 100k zip file or similar. That is pretty rediculous. I’m actually typing this as I wait for a some files to copy for a web site installation, and it’s taking way to long for that copy to execute.

I’ve been able to find information about turning off certain indexing services on Vista to speed up this kinda stuff. I had a problem with not being able to copy files from an XP machine over a network to this Vista machine when I first got this laptop. I did some research on Google and found that some people were eliminating this issue by disabling some indexing services on their macine. I tried it and it worked, but only for the network transfers. It didn’t fix my local file moving and copying issues. The local file system operations are still way to slow for my liking.

Here’s a quote from a related forum thread, kinda funny.

It’s quicker to copy stuff to a USB pen drive and walk between the machines! As with the guy above, I can get 500kb/s+ downloading from the Internet, so what’s with Vista copying?

Good stuff. There’s tons of stuff out there on the Internet similar to this.

After this 12.5 minute unzipping process of a 100k file ends I’ll probably not try this again tonight. I’m going to probably just call it quits and go to the office tomorrow to use my XP machine to install my plugins and finish the web site installation. It’s so much faster.