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Why does Windows take so long to install?
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10-09-2009, 03:11 PM
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I have a computer with an internal 111gb harddrive, and it takes XP like, literally, two hours to install on it. Whereas Linux Mint (or Ubuntu) only takes 20-30mins. What's the deal?
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10-09-2009, 03:12 PM (This post was last modified: 10-09-2009, 03:13 PM by Viciousness.)
(10-09-2009, 03:11 PM)Elektrisk Wrote: Hi.

I have a computer with an internal 111gb harddrive, and it takes XP like, literally, two hours to install on it. Whereas Linux Mint (or Ubuntu) only takes 20-30mins. What's the deal?

The deal is your computer sucks and you're running XP. By the way, not everyone reinstalls their OS every 3 days.

Windows 7 should take a max of 20 minutes. Use that.
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10-09-2009, 03:14 PM
(10-09-2009, 03:12 PM)MreGSX Wrote: The deal is your computer sucks and you're running XP. By the way, not everyone reinstalls their OS every 3 days.

Windows 7 should take a max of 20 minutes. Use that.

F|uck your couch.

Actually, yes, Windows 7 only takes 30-40 mins to install, but XP is the Winblows OS in question, isn't it?
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10-09-2009, 03:17 PM (This post was last modified: 10-09-2009, 03:20 PM by Viciousness.)
(10-09-2009, 03:14 PM)Elektrisk Wrote: F|uck your couch.

Actually, yes, Windows 7 only takes 30-40 mins to install, but XP is the Winblows OS in question, isn't it?


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Seriously though, Mint is an all-around lighter operating system. It runs great on 256mb of RAM.
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10-09-2009, 03:17 PM
Windows sucks bigtime.
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10-09-2009, 03:19 PM
(10-09-2009, 03:14 PM)Elektrisk Wrote: F|uck your couch.

Actually, yes, Windows 7 only takes 30-40 mins to install, but XP is the Winblows OS in question, isn't it?
"Winblows" Lol, now that is funny. Xp is of course much older then windows 7 so in comparison windows 7 installation is faster
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10-09-2009, 03:36 PM (This post was last modified: 10-09-2009, 03:38 PM by Ovchik.)
(10-09-2009, 03:11 PM)Elektrisk Wrote: Hi.

I have a computer with an internal 111gb harddrive, and it takes XP like, literally, two hours to install on it. Whereas Linux Mint (or Ubuntu) only takes 20-30mins. What's the deal?

Your processor is slow, and you probably have little RAM...

I have a Inter Pentium D 3.4Ghz Dual Core, with 4GB RAM... It takes me about 35 min to install XP, took about 20 min to install Win7... Took 15 min to install Ubuntu 9.04...
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10-09-2009, 03:53 PM
I suppose that's it, because I have a 1.73GHz dualcore with 1gb of ram, lawls.
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10-09-2009, 04:07 PM
Yea, when you talk about a Linux system, you have to understand that they are VERY light on resources and dont take much to install and run them...
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10-09-2009, 04:34 PM
Are you using a legit disk?

Come on guys, Windows doesn't suck, it's the people that use Windows that suck - they get one virus and blame Microsoft. So be it Linux may be better for certain things but you can always fall back on to XP.

Why is it running slow? No idea, are you not over exagerating? It normally takes 1 hour max.

Is it because your hardware is slow? No, not unless your running a Pentium 1, 60MHz. I've install XP SP3 PRO on Pentium 2 and 3's (300MHz - 500MHz) PC's manny a time and it installed just as fast as my dual core, 4gb RAM Machine.
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