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I just installed TurboTax on a new Win7 64 bit machine (Quad Core 860 i7, 8 gigs Ram, etc). What should be a simple install took several hours.
Why is this?
What is it about Win7 that an install takes so long?
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I did install TT 2009 & it seems to work (it immediately asked to & downloaded updates).
I have installed other programs since I got this machine and they work and some of my other "legacy" programs (Photoshop CS is an example) work. On the other hand Corel's PaintShop Pro would not work correctly.
I think that I have observed that program installs under Win7 64 bit take an inordinate amount of time. I didn't put a clock on it but the TT install was started before running the Formula1 race that recorded very early this morning and the install didn't complete under well over an hour later - somewhere in the region of 3 hours +/- !
Okay maybe the AV software (AVG 9.0.800) did it's job and scanned the install (and I should have thought of that) and that scan delayed things a bit but it seems to me that something else is delaying the install.
The MS Office (2007) didn't take long to install and surely it's a more complex install.
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