Installs going VERY slowly...

[marinebro36]

Hi,
I am having a problem with my hard drive (I think). Whenever I go to install a program, it takes forever. I'm trying to install Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, but it is taking a very long time. To see if it was my computer or the program, I downloaded a Virtual DJ Trial (just to install, 18mb), and it says it will take 22 minutes to finish, with simple txt's and dll's taking about 5-10 seconds. However, when copying and pasting files within windows explorer, it works fine, maybe a little slower than usual, but not drastic. I have no system restore points, HijackThis came up clean, and BitDefender and Norton scans show no viruses. Also, I took out most of the processes running in the task manager. Does anyone know the problem?

Thanks!

Specs:
Dell Dimension 8400
Maxtor 6L160MO
1 gig ram
ATI Radeon x800

 

[wahnula]

Also, I took out most of the processes running in the task manager.

Was the PC slow before you started taking those processes down? "Most" of the processes is a scary phrase.

What were you doing or what had you just done when you noticed the performance hit?

 

[marinebro36]

I fixed it, all my partitions had the "allow indexing" thing checked. This was probably caused by a folder locking program that I had to make extra use of my fingerprint reader.

Thanks anyway!

(and when I said "most", I meant most of the ones under my user name, ie not SYSTEM or NETWORK. The stuff that is OK to disable.)