nigelbeatson
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windows 7 pc slow installing everything
we have a stand alone windows v7 64 bit workstation that is extremely slow carrying out any installations.
running an exe file or even on close down when installing microsoft updates, it sits ticking away, but with no apparent progress.
the pc seems to work just fine when running applications etc, it's just when we want to install software that we seem to crawl.
when i monitor the performance, i can see it is doing something, but is not taking up all of the bandwidth of the drive or processor.
i removed avg, which i had to do in safe mode, as it crawled in standard mode, but this did not make any difference.
on restarting, it opened in a timely fashion, but the install of avg starts ok, but just sits at the very first part of the progress bar, again without advancing.
i will leave it to run overnight, but there must be something causing this general problem.
can anyone advise how ws go about identifying and resolving this extremely frustrating problem?
many thanks
running an exe file or even on close down when installing microsoft updates, it sits ticking away, but with no apparent progress.
the pc seems to work just fine when running applications etc, it's just when we want to install software that we seem to crawl.
when i monitor the performance, i can see it is doing something, but is not taking up all of the bandwidth of the drive or processor.
i removed avg, which i had to do in safe mode, as it crawled in standard mode, but this did not make any difference.
on restarting, it opened in a timely fashion, but the install of avg starts ok, but just sits at the very first part of the progress bar, again without advancing.
i will leave it to run overnight, but there must be something causing this general problem.
can anyone advise how ws go about identifying and resolving this extremely frustrating problem?
many thanks
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Having tried a lot of things an wasted much time, I ended up doing a complete re install, which resolved the problem.
Many thanks to all.
Many thanks to all.
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i will try your suggestions, but i have a feeling that the things suggested are going to be the kind of things that are taking a great deal of time to complete.
re installation is a real last resort as the software and data on this workstation would be pretty time consuming to backup and restore.
many thanks