Moving and Deleting Files Can't Be This Difficult

It's the first day and I already have a second topic to bitch about.

Okay, so if you're moving a file from one directory to another on the same drive, the benefit is that it's supposed to be fast because it's just moving pointers rather than copying data, right?  Well, for some reason Explorer seems to take its sweet time with this.  Not only that, but AGAIN the status menu shows some obscure progress that makes no sense...

It just kept showing "calculating" for both time remaining and items.  Then after about 5 minutes it showed 2(0 bytes) under items.  WTF does that mean??  And why is it taking 10 minutes to move files / directories??

I tried a batch delete operation on a very large directory and it was calculating for about 5 minutes before I aborted and did a DOS delete which worked beautifully.

del /f /s /Q *.*
rmdir /s /q <directory>
   ... thanks to this StackOverflow post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/186737/whats-the-fastest-way-to-delete-a-large-folder-in-windows

Please, Microsoft, just make these basic functions in explorer work.  please?!?!