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2004-11-23 10:52:59 AM
delphi244
My D2005 arrived and I was apprehensive when installing because of some
of the posts I have seen. So I decided to record the times involved
and see how I compared to some of the posts.
Install Time: 23 mins +/- because of CD changes etc.
This seemed a bit slow, but it may be due to my DVD that I installed
from. Its a 42x but I have had some issues with it being slow on
certain CDs depending on how they are recorded.
First load: 1 min.
I had to register the product so this affected the time a little.
Second and subsequent loads: 20-25 seconds
This seems completely reasonable to me. I am very happy with this.
The prompt to open the welcome page came up but I just unchecked the
"ask me again" checkbox and it loads just fine.
Havent kicked the tires yet, but it is up and running. The load time on
my machine is very respectable. And my machine is not cutting edge, nor
is it a girly cpu. AMD 2500+, 1gb mem, 7200 WD drive.
 

Bob writes:
of legitimate, real problems that they're having with the product. Just
because your initial experience was positive in no way invalidates the
negative experience others are having.
--
Eric Schreiber
Kobayashi Software
www.kobayashi.com
 

Bob writes:
Come back when you have kicked the tyres.
 

plenty.
Lauchlan M
 

On 22 Nov 2004 19:52:59 -0700, "Bob" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes:
working machine, I only installed this time the win32 variety, and the
load time isnt far off the delphi 5 time.
However, I think if you do a complete install as I did the first time,
the load time is very long, would be nice if you could also have 3
short cuts to go direct to just "delphi for win32" or "delphi .net" ..
so you could cut this down.
 

Liz writes:
blogs.borland.com/corbindunn/archive/2004/09/29.aspx
I installed everything, but have a Win32 only shortcut.
You have to be careful of what you remove, it still requires some .net
things.
Jim
 

On 23 Nov 2004 09:38:45 -0700, "James Jacobson" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes: