Why in the name of all that's unholy do programs on Windows generally
unpack or download files to a temporary location and then *copy*
them to the final location, instead of at least *moving* them or
(god forbid) downloading them to the right location in the first
place?

Even if they're worring about overwriting an existing file, there's
no reason they couldn't download/unpack it to filename.$tmp$65234657
and then rename it when they're done. They don't need to copy the
scurvy beggar.

This is particularly annoying when you're downloading compressed
ISO images onto a thumb drive, so you have to wait for it to write
several hundred megabytes of stuff to disk no less than four times...

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