I'd find that utterly believable. I'm sure that my registry is full of junk. I've been thinking about doing a system reload and reinstall for months, but I also know that it takes about 40-50 hours of productive time to get the box back to the state I'd wanted--reloading and reconfiguring all the programs--and I haven't found a good window to do it in.
Thanks! :) At 07:28 AM 4/22/2009, quills at airmail.net wrote: >I would say that it's more common to the operating system. The more >you have going on in your background the more time Windows takes to >do installs. And my experience has always been for long install >times on Windows. I believe it to be a function of how the OS is >structured and the registry. > >Scott > >John Hedtke wrote: >>I just re-installed Acrobat 9.0 Pro Extended off the Adobe TCS 2.0 >>and it took very close to two hours. Nope, nothing special, but >>the histogram just s-l-o-w-l-y crawled across the screen and a mere >>two hours later, it seemed to be done. >> >>Is this normal for Acrobat 9.0 or for the Tech Comm Suite 2.0? I >>have no way of knowing and there's no telling what Adobe may >>consider acceptable. Thoughts? >> >> >>Yours truly, >> >>John Hedtke >>Author/Consultant/Contract Writer >>www.hedtke.com <-- website