Annoyed With Vista’s Zip Program, Part 2
After making my last post, my estimated time to finish extracting eclipse jumped from 2 hours to 5 days. 5 days to extract 300mb of data from a zip file. Maybe I’d been duped? Maybe my new laptop is really as low rate as my last one?
I decided to make a beeline to 7Zip’s site in a vain effort of hope that maybe a different program can do the trick. Downloaded, installed, and extracted the zip file in 5 minutes.
It’s still a little frustrating getting a new laptop with software broken out of the box… I just hope this is the only notable bad experience I have.
Good grief.
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June 10th, 2007 at 12:54 am
Maybe you should have gotten a new PC with XP on it? I did when CompUSA closed.
June 10th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Actually, it hasn’t been too bad. 24 hours in, the only bad experience I’ve had so far was the problem with the built in zip program… everything else has been smooth.
June 20th, 2007 at 5:00 am
I’m having the same problem with zip files on Vista, 7 zip didn’t want to work for me either so I’m still searching for a solution. Let me know if you find anything out.
Cheers
Ted
June 20th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
I hate to tell you, but the existence of a 5 minute wait for eclipse still shows a problem. I’ve got a three year old Toshiba 1.6 and Ubuntu can extract that sucker in about 30 seconds or so (assuming you got the full Eclipse SDK) so I don’t know if you were simply running many other programs or if Vista is really that ridiculous, either way, the best of luck with your extraction future…
June 20th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Eh… the 5 minutes also included the download and install of 7zip, but it’s not a reliable benchmark either way… I simply did it while doing other things, and typed in that it took 5 minutes when making the post as it felt small enough.
But now I just need to get Debian installed so I can dual boot between the two.
July 26th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
I’ve always had this problem with XP - the build in unzip takes an extremely long time for big files. Even with virus protection turned off. I’ve always used 7zip because it is always fast. I’d be interested to know why XP has problems - is it indexing the files as it goes?
BTW, when dual booting between windows and linux, I find ‘EXT2 IFS for Windows’ really useful. See http://www.javathinking.com/?p=23
December 6th, 2007 at 11:28 am
I faced the same problem. Extracting a PHP script took 30min whereas in my previous machine it was a fraction of second.This happended on a brand new Dell machine with Core2 Duo, 2GB Ram and Vista Business. Downloaded 7zip and the same took less than a min. In fact I cannot even see the extraction process. Think some unresolved serious problem is with vista. Regretted that I bought a machine with Vista [ XP machines or no longer available in our country
].