WHY IS WINRAR SO SLOW NOW????

ok... i have a 2005 dell dimension 8400 p4 3.2 with 2gb of ram 533mhz and when i would first start to unrar a movie " a couple of months ago" it would take like 46 seconds mabe a 1 minute and a half at the most and now for some reason it takes like 4min 30 sec no matter what i do {and im not running any other programs or doing anything els on the pc at all, all though with 2 gb of ram i should be able to}.... 5 min or just 4 minutes its not realy a big deal i see people on this forum have a lot more trouble than my little unraring nag but it is just bugging me and i was wondering if any of you know why? also ill mention my hard "c drive"drive is a sata 160gb and i have 145gb free...i defrag my c drive all the time.... i have norton anti virus going and have no know virus that i know of.... and i allso have a spyware remover and no spyware on my pc either...besides unraring my pc runs like a dream..... any ideas???? thanks...

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abusing your pc with all the high resource's

also could be the dell ...dell's are piles of shit

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Originally posted by dwayne
abusing your pc with all the high resource's

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When it slows down, go into Task Manager/Processes and see where all your CPU time is going. Either that or dump Winrar and try WinZip or WinAce - afaik they all support each others archive formats.

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Might just be the fact you're trying to unpack rar sets with higher compression now....

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think everythings been said...could be a high compression ratio, could be Norton or something else hogging your resources, if not, set it going and go and have a nice poo...

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you can`t beat a nice poo

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hey thanks guys for even taking the time to answer my questions.... ill try what Neversoft said but other than that mabe ill just go take a dump then while its going...thanks...

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First and foremost, the thing that is going to make the biggest difference is whether you're reading/writing to the same hard drive...if you are, then it's going to be slow (when I do on mine, it takes about 4-6 minutes)....however, if i extract the files from one drive and write them to a different drive, it will go much quicker (somewhere between 45-90 seconds)....this sounds like your problem.

you might also check and see if your disk needs defragmented although I don't see this being the problem.

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i have norton anti virus going
^^^ I'd start there

Also as Neversoft said, open task manager and look at the WinRar's usage. Typically WinRar only uses about 38% of my processor and ~7500 RAM.

The hdd is the bottleneck in most cases.

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well i tryed what hoozdapimp said and it works alot faster now it takes about 75 sec or so...when extracting from one drive then wrighting to another...damn how wierd.....also valentine i check the % when extracting and wrighting on the same drive and it was like at 69%..wow thats crazy.....but when i tryed what hoozdapimp said it went to 22% and it was faster...... thanks guys....

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Originally posted by hoozdapimp
First and foremost, the thing that is going to make the biggest difference is whether you're reading/writing to the same hard drive...if you are, then it's going to be slow (when I do on mine, it takes about 4-6 minutes)....however, if i extract the files from one drive and write them to a different drive, it will go much quicker (somewhere between 45-90 seconds)....this sounds like your problem.

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You know, that's sooooo fucking obvious yet I never thought about it until you've just posted it - now I'm extracting files faster! Thanks

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Originally posted by Neversoft
You know, that's sooooo fucking obvious yet I never thought about it until you've just posted it - now I'm extracting files faster! Thanks

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Had the same problem a week ago. HDD happen to decided to set itself to PIO mode instead of DMA.Google DMA. should solve ur problem.

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Originally posted by kiddsilk69
Had the same problem a week ago. HDD happen to decided to set itself to PIO mode instead of DMA.Google DMA. should solve ur problem.

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Originally posted by hoozdapimp
First and foremost, the thing that is going to make the biggest difference is whether you're reading/writing to the same hard drive

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Originally posted by zootedlooter
im assuming that partitioning off youre c drive into other smaller drives wouldnt make a difference right?...its still for all matters the same hdd

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yeah def not, that'll just be a way to trick yourself into thinking it will work

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Originally posted by zootedlooter
im assuming that partitioning off youre c drive into other smaller drives wouldnt make a difference right?...its still for all matters the same hdd

looter

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