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Thread ID: 80219	2007-06-15 06:23:00	Running setup programs off network drive	Sherman (9181)	Press F1

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559507	2007-06-15 06:23:00	Hi folks. I have an external hard drive connected to my server, and I access my files from it over the network. I have mapped the share as a network drive. Accessing most things from it/playing media works fine. I have a folder with all the setup files that I have downloaded off the net/magazine discs. This folder contains 2.11GB worth of files, with 99 files. The problem is when I try to install a program (or copy the setup file) from that folder, it takes forever to bring up the installer - far longer than if it were just copying the file to RAM. This happens over both wireless and wired network, although not so bad with wired. I suspect that windows/my computer is trying to read info on all 99/2.11GB of files before it executes the installer in question. Would that be correct? Does anyone know how I can stop this from happening? Also, My Computer/windows explorer stops responding while this is happening, and I have to kill my network connection before I can do anything, or wait ages while it does its stuff. OS is XP Pro SP2. Clean install (today). Fully updated with AVG and comodo firewall. I reformatted the external hard drive to NTFS when I got it, so that is what is using now. Thanks in advance. PS: this doesn't happen when playing music from my equally as large (or larger) music folder	Sherman (9181)
559508	2007-06-15 06:40:00	Getting file info to make an Explorer window shouldn't take long for 99 files. And it has done that before you try to access one of the files. It could just be that it takes a while to transfer a 200 MB file (the average size)( over the network. ;) I'd expect wired to be faster than wireless. If you are running the file in place, it will be a lot bigger after it has decompressed the code data for the installation.	Graham L (2)
559509	2007-06-15 06:52:00	Actually, most of the files are under 30 MB. I have an iso thats over 700MB in there. But I'm not actually using that. All of the exe files are under 40MB, with a lot of them being under 20 or even 10MB. And 40 MB doesnt take all THAT long to open/decompress EDIT: besides, the whole network traffic going crazy happens every time I open that particular folder. And opening the music folder (which is 2.80GB in size with 718 files and 27 folders) hardly involves any network traffic whatsoever. The lights on the router flash briefly and all is still again.	Sherman (9181)
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