18th December 2007

TrustedInsaller is Crazy Slow on Vista

posted in Technology, Vista, Software |

For some reason when I install Windows components on my new workstation there is an app called TrustedInstaller.exe that runs incredibly slow. It takes 30+ minutes of (one core) CPU time per component to install- language packs, the .NET Framework 3.5, etc.

This seems like its an obvious bug and I haven’t seen it on any of my other Vista machines. I wonder if its some interaction with some Penryn feature where Windows is trying to do some wacko-fancy “trusted” thing that doesn’t actually gain anything real.

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  1. 1 On December 18th, 2007, brett said:

    Matthew has been seeing this on his 64bit build of vista. It go so bad, he’s moving back to XP.

  2. 2 On December 18th, 2007, Alex said:

    It is pretty amazing how bad it is. My only hope is to tell myself “how often do you install stuff anyway” (very often for better or worse…)

    Of course the only other thing that has caused such install slowness for me is the Network Magic Platform which at the moment is grinding away on one of my other machines (Win2k3 Server)… Ehem…

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