Installation goes akwardly slow

Since some time I have noticed that the installation of the files received
with Windows Update takes a terrible long time. That is it will take for
example 60 minutes to complete installation of a file of size 5 MB.
It has not always been like that. I first noticed this after I added a new
hard disc to my PC. I don´t know if there is a logical connection.
Anybody has suggestions ?

--
Joop

Joop,

If the newly added Hard Drive has more free space than the older one the
updates are being installed from there.
Try freeing up space on the original drive. You can delete the contents
of two folders located in WINDOWS\Software Distribution folder to kill 2
birds with one stone.

Go into the Services Console and stop the Automatic Updates service and
then delete the contents of WINDOWS\Software Distribution\DataStore and
WINDOWS\Software Distribution\Download, NOT the folders, just the
folders' contents. Restart Automatic Updates afterwards.
To access the Services Console go to Start, Run, type in

services.msc

Click OK.

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2006]
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Joop wrote:
> Since some time I have noticed that the installation of the files received
> with Windows Update takes a terrible long time. That is it will take for
> example 60 minutes to complete installation of a file of size 5 MB.
> It has not always been like that. I first noticed this after I added a new
> hard disc to my PC. I don´t know if there is a logical connection.
> Anybody has suggestions ?
>

Mow,

Thanks a lot for your reply. This seems to make sense. However, since the
new extra drive is 80 Gb and the old one 10 Gb cleaning up the old one does
not seem to be an option. Is there another way to solve this issue ?
I looked for the directories you suggest. Can´t find them. But I forget to
mention that I am working with Windows ME. It probably works different there.

--
Joop


"MowGreen" wrote:

> Joop,
>
> If the newly added Hard Drive has more free space than the older one the
> updates are being installed from there.
> Try freeing up space on the original drive. You can delete the contents
> of two folders located in WINDOWS\Software Distribution folder to kill 2
> birds with one stone.
>
> Go into the Services Console and stop the Automatic Updates service and
> then delete the contents of WINDOWS\Software Distribution\DataStore and
> WINDOWS\Software Distribution\Download, NOT the folders, just the
> folders' contents. Restart Automatic Updates afterwards.
> To access the Services Console go to Start, Run, type in
>
> services.msc
>
> Click OK.
>
> MowGreen [MVP 2003-2006]
> ===============
> *-343-* FDNY
> Never Forgotten
> ===============
>
> Joop wrote:
> > Since some time I have noticed that the installation of the files received
> > with Windows Update takes a terrible long time. That is it will take for
> > example 60 minutes to complete installation of a file of size 5 MB.
> > It has not always been like that. I first noticed this after I added a new
> > hard disc to my PC. I don´t know if there is a logical connection.
> > Anybody has suggestions ?
> >
>

Yup, Win ME is different than XP. Not sure, but you can check in the
Program Files\WindowsUpdate folder. If you delete the software controls
for Windows Update they'll be reinstalled the next time the system
visits the site.
I'll check on a ME system to find out the exact location. Hang in there.

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2006]
===============
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
===============

Joop wrote:
> Mow,
>
> Thanks a lot for your reply. This seems to make sense. However, since the
> new extra drive is 80 Gb and the old one 10 Gb cleaning up the old one does
> not seem to be an option. Is there another way to solve this issue ?
> I looked for the directories you suggest. Can´t find them. But I forget to
> mention that I am working with Windows ME. It probably works different there.
>