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ajtip · 05-12-2003, 06:31 PM

Hi all. I'm hoping someone can help me with a solution to this not quite lifethreatening, but very annoying problem. Maybe a little background first.

Old puter-PII 350 MHz, 256 MB SDRAM, WinXP Pro,WinRAR 3.0

New puter- PIV 2.4 GHz, 512 MB DDR 2700, WinXP Pro, WinRAR 3.0

Now to the problem. When I used WinRAR on my old machine, the extract screen came up right away, (although it took forever to unrar!), but now when I double click on a file to uncompress it, Winrar sometimes takes a full 45 sec. to a min. to open the dialog. I should note that I typically am uncompressing rather large spanned files, 500-800 MB, but I was doing that before on my old machine. At first I thought maybe I had a setting on to error check each spanned volume before uncompressing the files, but I found nothing of this sort. Any advice?

Thanks,
AJ:huh

05-12-2003, 06:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
ajtip Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Indiana Posts: 30	Problem w/WinRAR Hi all. I'm hoping someone can help me with a solution to this not quite lifethreatening, but very annoying problem. Maybe a little background first. Old puter-PII 350 MHz, 256 MB SDRAM, WinXP Pro,WinRAR 3.0 New puter- PIV 2.4 GHz, 512 MB DDR 2700, WinXP Pro, WinRAR 3.0 Now to the problem. When I used WinRAR on my old machine, the extract screen came up right away, (although it took forever to unrar!), but now when I double click on a file to uncompress it, Winrar sometimes takes a full 45 sec. to a min. to open the dialog. I should note that I typically am uncompressing rather large spanned files, 500-800 MB, but I was doing that before on my old machine. At first I thought maybe I had a setting on to error check each spanned volume before uncompressing the files, but I found nothing of this sort. Any advice? Thanks, AJ:huh