I have a Gateway laptop that came with Vista Home Premium installed. I have
run Windows update to get any new updates. When I put a CD in my CD/DVD
drive, it spins for a long time (3 - 4 minutes). I noticed that it was
creating a large file in the Windows/Temp directory. While it is doing this
I can not run the Setup application on the CD. It appears to have copied the
entire CD to a single file in the Windows temp directory. Then I can run
Setup to install the application, but it appears to be accessing the CD and
not the hard drive.

Why is it doing this CD copy, and how can I make it stop?

The contents of the CD are compressed and the installer decompresses them to
a temp folder. The program then installs from the temp folder. After the
install has completed, and you reboot if necessary, a good installer will
clean out it's temporary files that it created.

This is why you may need 1 gig of free space to install a 400 meg program.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"bgille" wrote in message
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I have a Gateway laptop that came with Vista Home Premium installed. I
have
run Windows update to get any new updates. When I put a CD in my CD/DVD
drive, it spins for a long time (3 - 4 minutes). I noticed that it was
creating a large file in the Windows/Temp directory. While it is doing
this
I can not run the Setup application on the CD. It appears to have copied
the
entire CD to a single file in the Windows temp directory. Then I can run
Setup to install the application, but it appears to be accessing the CD
and
not the hard drive.

Why is it doing this CD copy, and how can I make it stop?

That makes sense, except the install reads from the CD and not the hard
drive. I would think if it was reading from the temp directory it would not
access the CD again. After it finished copying I did double-click on the
Setup file on the CD (via Explorer). It did not automatically start the
setup. Also, there seems to be no way to stop Vista from copying the entire
CD. I will have to check, but I believe with XP you could pop in this CD and
explore the contents of it without it copying the entire CD to disk.

With Vista there was literally a 4 minute delay.


"Richard Urban" wrote:

The contents of the CD are compressed and the installer decompresses them to
a temp folder. The program then installs from the temp folder. After the
install has completed, and you reboot if necessary, a good installer will
clean out it's temporary files that it created.

This is why you may need 1 gig of free space to install a 400 meg program.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"bgille" wrote in message
...
I have a Gateway laptop that came with Vista Home Premium installed. I
have
run Windows update to get any new updates. When I put a CD in my CD/DVD
drive, it spins for a long time (3 - 4 minutes). I noticed that it was
creating a large file in the Windows/Temp directory. While it is doing
this
I can not run the Setup application on the CD. It appears to have copied
the
entire CD to a single file in the Windows temp directory. Then I can run
Setup to install the application, but it appears to be accessing the CD
and
not the hard drive.

Why is it doing this CD copy, and how can I make it stop?