Very slow install

I have found a lot of my games from pre vista take an extremely long time to
install. BF2 for instance took nearly 25 mins to completely install.

This is on a Dell dimension xps Gen 4. 3.60 Ghz processor, 2 GiG of Ram, and
a 260 gig HDD.

Has anyone had similar experiences with this problem?

"Ian P" <IanP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have found a lot of my games from pre vista take an extremely long time
>to
> install. BF2 for instance took nearly 25 mins to completely install.
>
> This is on a Dell dimension xps Gen 4. 3.60 Ghz processor, 2 GiG of Ram,
> and
> a 260 gig HDD.
>
> Has anyone had similar experiences with this problem?

I came across a machine last week with a Promise controller, of which had
extremely poor disk performance, probably due to the driver.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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