The head of Microsoft Windows division, in a new blog entry tells Windows Explorer to Windows 8 can importantly simple to manage with so-called "Copy Jobs". This refers to contracts that adds copying, moving, renaming or deleting information via the Windows Explorer.


Microsoft is working on the development of Windows 8 including enhancements to the Windows Explorer. In the examination of telemetry data from millions of Windows users have about you noticed that while 50 percent of the so-called "Copy Jobs" lasted less than 10 seconds, one in five of these processes, however, more than two minutes to complete.


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The Windows Explorer is not on such a large copy operations or optimize the simultaneous execution of multiple copy jobs back, so Sinofsky, so they wanted to improve these functions. About 0.45 percent of Windows 7 users would fall back on an alternative program to copy or move, so Sinofsky. These tools, you would not run the place, but to provide the experience for users of Windows Explorer are made more consistent.


Among the improvements implemented in Windows 8 Windows Explorer include improved dialogs, the scaling back of security checks at "Copy Job" operations, and better processing of information about the individual processes. Thus, Sinofsky about the prospect that the Windows Explorer in Windows 8 summarize all copy operations in a window.


In this they can then pause and resume individually, or cancel. In addition, it will also be possible to have information graphically on the speed of the copy operations, so the actual throughput is visualized in real time what is going to feel about the current calculation of throughput faster.


The dialogue in file name collisions that occur when two files will be copied into the same folder with the same name, has been improved. Windows is already established in a conflict, the question which of the files should be kept. The future of Windows Explorer in a new dialog window, but for all identified conflicts, the two files in a thumbnail view, and so allow the comparison easier.


The relevant files can be, if it is about the videos, also boot directly from the dialog box. Other improvements include dialogue yet common security questions, such as when merging folders or move files to the Recycle Bin. These and similar security checks will no longer be made in future to allow a more stable using the Windows Explorer.