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Visual Stuido 6 pro linking taking a long time

I have been writing an application that is windows based with MFC on a AMD processor with win XP. I recently got a job with the company tha I'm writing the software for. I moved my code to a new machine of theirs. Which has an INTEL P4 processor and Win 2000. My project in Visual Studio 6.0 pro on my home machine AMD 1.8 mGhz 512 ram will compile and link pretty fast. Now here at work the LINKING portion is taking about 5 - 10 min.

Is there anything that I can do to help speed up the linking?

Does anybody know what is going on?

thanks,

RJ

jimwasson

Some suggestions on things to check for:
-- Hard drive fragmented.
-- Virus scanner in real-time mode checking files on the fly
-- Some tools or source files on a network rather than on the build machine

Mikal613

are you compiling to a network drive??
b) did you compile locally(faster)

Koderiter

ASKER

-I am compiling locally, no files are on the network.
-I did check the hard drive and it needed no defragmentation, but I still ran it. (no change with linking)
-no Virus scanning software is evan loaded.

Koderiter

ASKER

Has anybody had any problems with linking on an ITEL box vs AMD box?
I really would like any suggestions that you can think of.

Mikal613

i have a 1.3 GHZ intel and a 2.8 intel the difference is HUGE

So its probably the speed and not the make

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