laggy comp when installing things?

[Eryk]

Hi

Is it normal for my comp to get sorta laggy when im installing something with the cd drive in use??

this seems kinda akward...

system specs? what do you have running in the background?

is this for installing any programs?

[dlh75]

What is your OS? How much ram?
Pc's will get laggy when the CPU usage is high.
Mine did one day and I thought whats the deal I have 512 mb DDr ram and a Xp1900+ running XP. Too good for a laggy PC. If your running Windows Xp click ctrl- alt- delete to see how much your CPU usage is. Not sure with other Windows versions. But might be the same. Also a reboot will help somtimes.

[Eryk]

i have win2k and 1 gig of ram... and i was installing cs... maybe it was a bad cd.

[Siliconjunkie]

I have seen this too. Not sure why installs can slow things down so much, I have a friend that constantly gripes about it.

My theory is that the contents are quite compressed and it takes resources to uncompress them.

[Buzioid]

Well, what is your CPU, and your HD speed can make it slower as well. Also, using UDMA cables and if your CDROM is on the same channel can make a significant differnence in speeds.

[Eryk]

amd athlon 2500
hd wd 120gb 7200 8mb cache

udma??

[thePh@r@oh]

Originally posted by Siliconjunkie
I have seen this too. Not sure why installs can slow things down so much, I have a friend that constantly gripes about it.

My theory is that the contents are quite compressed and it takes resources to uncompress them.

i agree with you i think its the compression too....can't stop it it does it on every computer ive ever used no matter how fast it was.