VS2005 Sp1
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Mine finished in about 15 minutes. Maybe you guys should try downloading with something other than IE. :)
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Duh.. Installing is different than dowloading, we have 2Gb P4 Dual Cores here and they're quick.
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What did you download with?
Kevin
IE 6 I beleive.
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It has to extract the 500MB patch from the EXE, then Windows Installer checks the signature by loading it into a 500MB block of contiguous virtual addresses (swapping all the way - why on earth this isn't implemented by mapping the file into the address space, or just loading a relatively small buffer at a time, I don't know), then it finally gets to actually installing.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Mike Dimmick wrote:
why on earth this isn't implemented by...
It seems all of the VS installers are done as summer intern projects... :rolleyes:
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startIt's a feature of the Windows Installer runtime, not the setup itself (done at least partly by our old mate Heath Stewart[^]). See for example Disabling the Patch Cache[^].
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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What did you download with?
Kevin
I was just poking all the IE zealots in the ribs. I use FireFox.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
cykophysh39 wrote:
minute can be anywhere between 60 seconds to 60000 seconds
You must have Microsoft Minute™ 2.0. In the latest version, Microsoft Time Unit Advanced Home Professional Business Media Edition™ 3.0, it can be anywhere from 60 to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 seconds.
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This is the longest ever sp I've installed, its been going for over 2 hours now....................:sigh:
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This is the longest ever sp I've installed, its been going for over 2 hours now....................:sigh:
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After 30 minutes of installing (it came to 'analyzing your current configuration' - or something like that) in the background, the window came to the foreground - and not realizing that - and thinking that I am still working in another window I pressed ESC! Installer exited immediately without any confirmation! :sigh: How ingenious!!!! :(( Can't understand how difficult it would have been to put a confirmation dialog on exit. :wtf: Well, here we go again...
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This is the longest ever sp I've installed, its been going for over 2 hours now....................:sigh:
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Frank Kerrigan wrote:
its been going for over 2 hours now
They Service Pack is OpenSource, and needs to go through the VS2005 C++ compiler during installation.
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After 30 minutes of installing (it came to 'analyzing your current configuration' - or something like that) in the background, the window came to the foreground - and not realizing that - and thinking that I am still working in another window I pressed ESC! Installer exited immediately without any confirmation! :sigh: How ingenious!!!! :(( Can't understand how difficult it would have been to put a confirmation dialog on exit. :wtf: Well, here we go again...
It's Install software, usability doesn't apply here. (Doubly so for Windows Installer)
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I was just poking all the IE zealots in the ribs. I use FireFox.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001It's usually the minority rather than the majority users of a software product that are the zealots.
Kevin
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I was just poking all the IE zealots in the ribs. I use FireFox.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Browser types are like loo paper for me;I use the thing for function not to stare at or tell people how fluffy it is. :laugh:
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After 30 minutes of installing (it came to 'analyzing your current configuration' - or something like that) in the background, the window came to the foreground - and not realizing that - and thinking that I am still working in another window I pressed ESC! Installer exited immediately without any confirmation! :sigh: How ingenious!!!! :(( Can't understand how difficult it would have been to put a confirmation dialog on exit. :wtf: Well, here we go again...
Maybe MS us mistook us for development profressions
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This is the longest ever sp I've installed, its been going for over 2 hours now....................:sigh:
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And again they fail to have the list of fixes up and running. Or even a link to the list that was finally compiled for the beta. WTF, anyway? :sigh:
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After 30 minutes of installing (it came to 'analyzing your current configuration' - or something like that) in the background, the window came to the foreground - and not realizing that - and thinking that I am still working in another window I pressed ESC! Installer exited immediately without any confirmation! :sigh: How ingenious!!!! :(( Can't understand how difficult it would have been to put a confirmation dialog on exit. :wtf: Well, here we go again...