Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

[David Bobroff]

I've noticed a similar difference between Linux and Windows uninstall 
times.  My Windows machine is a few years old; 3GHz Pentium with 2Gb RAM 
and the Linux box is a much older machine; 733MHz with maybe 768Mb RAM. 
 The uninstall on the much slower Linux hardware is a few seconds, 
while on the much faster Windows hardware the uninstall takes much 
longer...but not anything like 32 minutes to reach 80%.  Uninstall on my 
Windows (XP) takes maybe a few minutes.

I remember once starting an uninstall on Windows and while that was 
going on I went to my Linux box, uninstalled LilyPond, downloaded a 
newer LP and installed it before the Windows had completed the uninstall.

-David

Nick Payne wrote:
> When I install a new version I uninstall the previous one. I have 
> noticed, for quite a few versions now, that the uninstall takes a long 
> time. I just downloaded 2.13.7 and am waiting for the uninstall of 
> 2.13.4 to complete. It has been running for about 32 minutes so far and 
> the uninstall progress bar is at about 80%.
>
> This machine is dual boot. If I boot into Ubuntu and run the uninstall 
> of the same version, it takes only a few seconds to complete. I've tried 
> on two different Windows machines, one running Windows 7 and one running 
> XP, and the extremely slow uninstall happens on both. Installation on 
> both runs quite satisfactorily.
>
> Nick
>
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