Unzipping

[Ray Rogers]

Incredible, unzipping 1.22Gb to a folder on the desktop, started out at
something like 8 hours to finish, now it's down to 1 hour 30 minutes at the
incredible speed of, wait for it. . . . . . . 12.8 KB/sec. And it's running
both my cores at about 50-60%.

You know, I really like Vista and am sticking with it, but this has to be
addressed. Oh, must have hit a sticky patch, now it's down to 8.72 KB/sec,
8.44, bottomed out at 7.42 KB/sec.
Whew, it's done. That was a wild ride.

 

[KristleBawl]

How do I turn off Compressed Folders (built-in support for ZIP files) in
Windows Vista and XP?
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-202

See if that helps.

KB

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[Ray Rogers]

Thanks KB but I'm just using the default Vista Zip program, from what I read
that addresses the issue when another Zip program is installed.

 

[KristleBawl]

Q: Is this a clean install or upgrade?

KB

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[Ray Rogers]

Clean install.

Q: Is this a clean install or upgrade?

KB

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[KristleBawl]

You could try temporarily turning your antivirus off.

Some people have said using those steps and downloading another zip utility
still works, even if they didn't already have one.

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