Extracting Files from Zip

[J Smith]

I am having issues extracting files from a zip file. I had a 28MB file which
extracted to 50MB on my Vista PC after 10 minutes it still was not finished
(1 day still to run down from the 2 days 15 hours it originally said). The
say zip file took less than a minute to extract on my older pc running
windows 2003 server.

Any one else having this problem?

Cheers
John0

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

This issue is possibly related to UAC, try disabling it and extract the file
again to see if you still experience the same performance issues. Click
Start > All Programs > Run > type in MSCONFIG > Tools (tab) > scroll down
select Disable UAC > click Launch, restart your system for the changes to
take effect.
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[Guest]

I had a similar problem trying to extract the nForce4 beta drivers for Vista
32-bit. I opened the ZIP file in Explorer and dragged the files to a folder
I'd created on my desktop. The decompression then proceeded at an abnormally
slow rate. The 5MB file took over 20 seconds to decompress. UAC was disabled,
since it kept interfering with some of the programs I used earlier.

 

[J Smith]

Thanks

I just tried that and it did not fix it.

Cheers
John0

 

[jonah]

I am having issues extracting files from a zip file. I had a 28MB file which
extracted to 50MB on my Vista PC after 10 minutes it still was not finished
(1 day still to run down from the 2 days 15 hours it originally said). The
say zip file took less than a minute to extract on my older pc running
windows 2003 server.

Any one else having this problem?

Cheers
John0

I have done a fair amount of file extraction with (UAC off) and so far
no problems. I always "unzip here" then move the resulting file after
extraction to eliminate any possible file permission issues. Maybe
that will help?

I think UAC needs a lot of work, it seems to be in no mans land and
very erratic. It needs to be implemented properly ie either you are
logged in to an admin account with full root access or you are not,
this half arsed, vaguely between root access and user access is just
annoying IMHO.

Jonah

 

[Ron Miller]

This issue is possibly related to UAC, try disabling it and extract the file
again to see if you still experience the same performance issues. Click
Start > All Programs > Run > type in MSCONFIG > Tools (tab) > scroll down
select Disable UAC > click Launch, restart your system for the changes to
take effect.

My problem wasn't speed. Rather, when I tried to "open" a zipped file,
Vista had a psychotic break. It began bringing up a nearly-full-screen
window that I think was IE, but it would disappear too fast to tell.
This went on in an endless loop with a periodicity of about 2-3/second.
Controlling the comuter was impossible because every menu brought up
was closed almost instantly by the wildly flashing IE windows. The only
thing I could do was hit the power button for 4 seconds. I haven't
tried this since disabling UAC. I'm off to do that.