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Installing time?

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Installing time?

May 29th, 2007

How long did it take you to install vista? I'm reinstalling it right now and its been at the "Expanding files (27%)" stage for about and hour.

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Re: Installing time?

May 30th, 2007

I don't know for sure how long mine took, but probably around an hour...

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May 30th, 2007

Vista is one bloated goat...it takes forever for just about anything. Throw RAM at it and the latest greatest hardware...you will be rewarded. Seems to really want a full GB of memory to really get the high performance experience...XP w/SP2 wanted 512MB RAM over 256MB (more like 384MB 256+128 at least) RAM that SP1 worked (not very well) with. Seems like every major revision means doubling the RAM.

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May 31st, 2007

From using the 'Dell Express Upgrade' from XP to Vista, it took me about an hour once I had all my files backed up. To log on and get all users set up, it took another half hour.