Vista incredibly slow at decompressing

KNiVES · 28 Jan 2007 at 13:51

Brand new installation and computer (OS installed for about a week now, on a three week old computer).

I'm using Vista Home Premium 64 bit on a 6300 with 2 gigs of DDR800 ram and a SATA2 250GB HDD with 16mb cache. I recently downloaded the Asus ati beta drivers, which weight in at 120mbs zipped, yet extracting is estimated at 12 minutes. It's not even budging actually, stuck at 12 minutes for a good while now. XP normally does bigger sizes in seconds.

Whats the beef?

edit: I moved the zipped file to desktop, and opened it. Copied and pasted the files inside the .zip to desktop and shoved those uncompressed ones into a new folder. Seems to work just fine but I'm annoyed that I have to resort to this kind of thing.

bledd · 28 Jan 2007 at 14:55

are you running an antivirus?, its probably scanning it when its extracting, also windows defender will be scanning it

go into windows defender and turn off real-time file scanning and enable a weekly or daily scan instead

-disable your AV realtime scanning for the time that its extracting (which av is it?)

KNiVES · 28 Jan 2007 at 20:57

How do you change the settings for Windows Defender? I went to options for it, but it only had options for when to do daily checks, or no checks at all.

bledd · 28 Jan 2007 at 21:14

in defender..

tools, options

scroll down a bit, Real-time scanning (untick it)

KNiVES · 28 Jan 2007 at 21:16

Turned off 'real time protection', thanks