Installs going VERY slowly...

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marinebro0306

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Hi,
I am having a problem with my hard drive (I think). Whenever I go to install a program, it takes forever. I'm trying to install Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, but it is taking a very long time. To see if it was my computer or the program, I downloaded a Virtual DJ Trial (just to install, 18mb), and it says it will take 22 minutes to finish, with simple txt's and dll's taking about 5-10 seconds. However, when copying and pasting files within windows explorer, it works fine, maybe a little slower than usual, but not drastic. I have no system restore points, HijackThis came up clean, and BitDefender and Norton scans show no viruses. Also, I took out most of the processes running in the task manager. Does anyone know the problem?

Thanks!

Specs:
Dell Dimension 8400
Maxtor 6L160MO
1 gig ram
ATI Radeon x800
 
I'm assuming that you're using windows XP. Go to system, then hardware, and in your device manager, check IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, and check each one of them and make sure that your transfer mode isn't set up to PIO mode.

Also check your antivirus configuration if the above doesn't help. The new sofware is good, but it likes to take over your system, checking every single file that passes through OS's APIs making a bit slooooowww.....
 
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