Installing time?

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

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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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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.

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It took me about 2 hours to do a backup, a restore (to XP for a clean install of Vista), then the install.

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