[problems]

There's some truth to it though - the Windows Explorer file operations are flaky as hell.

I was just trying to copy files between an old system drive and a new one but I kept getting infinite recursion issues with the "Documents and Settings" (which is linked to Users) directory, permission issues, etc. Even as the SYSTEM user. I wound up having to learn a little robocopy for it.

[E6300]

Yeah, since Windows Vista/7, when Documents and Settings was moved to Users, the system creates new user directories with a bunch of symbolic links/junctions that don't seem to be properly created and always cause issues when copying the directory to another place or deleting the directory. I always get this problem when moving my profile directory out of the system partition.

Incidentally, it's amazing that Windows still doesn't let you specify a custom location to create the profile directory of a new user.