Slow File Extracting with Vista?

Yargyarg · #1 01-30-2008, 07:51 PM

I seem to be having a problem extracting the files from the UI. I will extract the files, but it does it at an intensly and painfully slow rate, we're talkin 1hr to just extract the files for the UI. Now I never had the same problem while I was using Windows XP, but after this reformat to Vista, it's just horribly slow, lol.

Soooo.... I was hoping that someone out there might know more about this situation and be able to give me a pointer or two as to why this is happening/how I can fix this problem.

O'Neill · #2 01-30-2008, 08:55 PM

Go back to XP

Vista is to much eye candy and not enough performance in my opinion
you need latest spec pc, 3-4 gig mem quad proc' etc to get it to move at any
decent speed.
Alhough it shoudnt take that long to unzip, unless you have a older system with 1gig of mem.

defragging may help, but new hd.s are that fast that it prob wont make much difference.

Go back to XP, I did, and havnt regretted it one bit.
There will be a day when Vista is a must as xp was when win98 got the boot.
But till that day, XP stays.

Just my thoughts >>puts flameproof jacket on<<

pooka · #3 01-30-2008, 11:18 PM

possibly your virus scanner?

uninstall norton or mcaffee and try avg.

Yargyarg · #4 01-30-2008, 11:23 PM

Unfortunately I'm not using Vista by choice, only thing I have for the moment, and as for Norton, had too many issues with it in the passed and am actually using AVG right now, lol.

When I was running on XP though I wasn't using AVG or Norton, may try tinkering around see what I can dig up.

If anyone has more influence with Vista that might wanna know, I'm still all ears. =)

(as far as defrag/ram/etc goes, all green there, just really getting the feeling that it's security bs that I'd have to toggle through, just not sure where to start)

**Landiin** · #5 01-31-2008, 12:38 AM

You are not unzinping to a comp on your local network are you? I've never had any issue with vista other then slow performance transferring files over my local network.

Yargyarg · #6 02-05-2008, 05:49 PM

Nah, just extracting the files to the EQ2 folder as noted in the readme.txt, which isn't in a shared folder.