Wow! the Windows installation model is just broken! | The Coffeehouse

Minh
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I'm trying to uninstall J# (sorry brian, needing the diskspace)... edit: and C++

and it's been 15 minutes already sitting through the VS "Installing Components" dialog while it's "Generating setup script"...

On the other hand, that is a very attractive woman. I wonder how MS know my taste...

Minh
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OMG... After 35 minutes... the status bar started over

Minh
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#Jul 24th @ 7:34 AM

Minute 50... Oh for the love of god

CKurt
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#Jul 24th @ 7:47 AM

Always funny when they call themselfs "Setup" even though is's an uninstall !

Larry Osterman

This has nothing to do with the windows installation model and everything to do with visual studio.

In this case, I suspect that you installed VS from a network resource (or CD) that is no longer present, so there's a lot of stuff that's timing out.

Duanerrr

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#Jul 24th @ 7:47 AM

"Oh for the love of god" - Was that because it switched to a picture of a guy instead of the woman?

Minh
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#Jul 24th @ 7:53 AM

Oh, I know... I just meant that Windows gives installer free-reign over everything...

Which is good and bad... Good that anyone can install a driver... bad that the installation experience is consistent... and the OS has no check on the installed apps

Minh
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#Jul 24th @ 7:54 AM

LOL! Although.. that's not an un-handsome guy

Minh
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#Jul 24th @ 7:47 AM

Halelujah! 66 minutes to remove J# & C++...

Minh
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#Jul 24th @ 8:06 AM

The saga continues... Trying to install VS2005 SP1... sitting on this screen for 10 minutes...

Preparing what?

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

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#Jul 24th @ 10:16 AM

VS2005 SP1 takes a couple of hours to install. The main issue is with the way Windows Installer verifies patches. I'm not sure how, but they improved it for VS2008, anyway.

Minh
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#Jul 24th @ 10:16 AM

Oh lookee here... the "preparation" is done... after 20 short minutes?

Of course, now, I'm asked to wait... Sad

Minh
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#Jul 24th @ 10:19 AM

That's good to hear... we're a few years behind the times here where I work... so maybe in a few years, we'll move to 2008 Tongue Out

Minh
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#Jul 24th @ 10:33 AM

Woot! It's done... but I'm getting this dialog for a couple of minutes now... SP1's way of saying it's cleaning up?

Dodo
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#Jul 24th @ 12:30 PM

A few short questions:

How large is your hard drive?

How much space is free on it?

When was the last time you ran a defrag?

How much RAM do you have?

I'm pretty sure you (or your cost saving employer) did something wrong with those things.

Minh
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#Jul 24th @ 12:55 PM

A few short questions:

How large is your hard drive? 18 GB on C: (I know I know... not much)

How much space is free on it? 2.2 GB prior to installation

When was the last time you ran a defrag? Never ran one... haha!

How much RAM do you have? 1.5 GB

I'm pretty sure you (or your cost saving employer) did something wrong with those things.

Many employers are penny wise and pound foolish

LeoDavidson

Heh, I often stare, dumfounded, at (un)installers thinking about how many calculations could be run, and how much data could be read & written, on modern hardware in the amount of time the things take to run, wondering WTF they are doing and HTF they manage to make it take so long.

(Not talking about any product in particular. There are so many that this applies to.)