J_Blade
12th October 2001 13:18 UTC

Slow Delete under Win9x?
Hy!

In my script, i want to delete more files (165 pcs.) on target system.
Under WinNT 4.0 this is fast, but Win9x is very slow.
Any idea?

Thanks in Advance.
JB

sorry for bad english

J_Blade
18th October 2001 12:27 UTC

Hi

I come back, and i tested my program several workstation. The exactly result is:
-WinNT 4.0 :fast delete
-Win95: fast delete
-Win98: slow delete (step by step all 165 files)

Why?

Thanks to answer.

and yet sorry for bad english
JB

Repzilon
18th October 2001 23:05 UTC

This is because of smooth scrolling enabled by default in Win98. I changed the exehead code so it add the list items in the reverse order, just like very old versions (1.0?) of NSIS were doing and it is quite fast.

A speedup on the user side is to put any window over set it as the active window.

Edgewize
19th October 2001 07:29 UTC

A much better fix for the user is to disable the stupid smooth scrolling feature to begin with. TweakUI (downloadable from Microsoft's site, it might be on your Windows CD, poke around...) has a check box on the General tab: "Smooth Scrolling". I highly suggest unchecking it :P