winrar only using 10% of my cpu

awhir · 13-03-2007 8:39pm #1

win rar is only using 10% of my cpu.it uses 100% of my hdd but i find this strange since it used to work way faster and used to use more of my cpu any ideas?

DemonOfTheFall · 13-03-2007 8:43pm

Hard drive fragmentation? Try extracting from one physical drive to another physical drive.

awhir · 13-03-2007 10:56pm

ok will try a defrag tonight when i try it on a free hdd it only runs at 30%:(

astrofool · 14-03-2007 11:37am

do other zipping programs behave similarly? (i.e. is it a system or software problem). www.izarc.org is freeware and supports rar and other zipping formats.

awhir · 14-03-2007 5:17pm

ok defraged and no joy then tryed reinstalling winrar but still no joy then tryed using izarc and it would still run with cpu at 10% and hdd at 100%

any ideas.

aidan_walsh · 14-03-2007 5:18pm

What size and type of file are you trying to compress?

awhir · 14-03-2007 5:46pm

there common rar files like with 3 100mb parts or around

like this

awhir · 14-03-2007 9:23pm

no ideas ?

Alun · 15-03-2007 10:28am

Try clearing out

c:\windows\temp and
c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp

Hobbes · 15-03-2007 2:47pm

What else you got running in memory?

awhir · 15-03-2007 5:48pm

here

awhir · 17-03-2007 9:41pm

no ideas

papu · 18-03-2007 12:58am

try

7zip

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z442.exe?download

see if that makes things faster?

winrar only using 10% of my cpu

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