Unzipping files on a laptop - what on earth?!!!!

[Guest]

My first experience of Vista was through a work laptop today. As the first
user I put it through it's install process - the usual interminable
setup/installation... and after a few hours (yes HOURS) the machine was
finally ready..

I then downloaded a copy of Office 2003 from our network (this is part of
our campus agreement with Microsoft so it's legal) and tried to unzip it...
after a while I had a window telling me it was unzipping the file - and was
anticipating taking 14 hours to do so!!! It also tried running the setup file
straight away without any of the other files unzipped. I ended up taking the
whole zip file off, moving it to a very old XP machine which then unzipped it
in 2 minutes.

Can someone please tell me why it was so painfully slow and how to avoid
this in future?

Bear in mind this was the first ever action this laptop had performed after
the installation and I assume since it shipped with Vista it was capable of
using it.

As things stand I have NO intention of getting Vista for my next home
desktop but will buy a custom made machine and use XP instead...or possibly
Linux...

Not impressed.

 

[Adam Leinss]

Can someone please tell me why it was so painfully slow and how to
avoid this in future?

Were you using the built-in extractor or a 3rd party one? I use WinRAR to
explode large (>1 GB) RAR sets and I have absolutely no problems on Vista.

Adam

 

[Guest]

let me guess, this was a hp pavilion laptop? I guess it's the problem with
the drivers or something, I have this issue and many others on my laptop but
my desktop run on vista without any bugs.