Over the New Year's holiday I had to reset my Windows 8 laptop, so I'm starting over, reinstalling Visual Studio, etc. And of course reinstalling various Telerik controls/suites. I'm installing 16 different ones. I started this yesterday. After 24+ hours, it is still stuck at where it was last night, installing the 9th out of 16. What's wrong? Why is it taking so long? Should I stop it?
I have downloaded the trial to determine if this is a product I want to purchase for my team. I can tell you right now, I do NOT have a slow machine and I have 1 gig (abit) download connection. It took 20+ minutes to download and install. I am not sure what the heck takes that long, but its not my hardware ware and connections. If in fact it does NEED to take that long, then you need to so a better job of describing what you are doing (ie downloading, installing A, B, C of product). Else, besides being annoying, it is extremely suspicious.
Strike 1 of the trial.
Hi Wade,
Thank you for sharing your feedback about our installer.
Installing all our products and integrations can take 20 minutes as there is a lot of data and settings that need to be downloaded and applied.
Our installer offers some options which could help you make the process faster.
If you have used our Ultimate Trial installer it has all products selected for installation by default.
You could deselect some of the products if you don't need them which will reduce the time for installation.
On the next step you are presented with several customization options which greatly reflect installation time.
The first one is the Install Demos section where you could turn off some products Demos if you don't need them or turn on others.
The second one which has great impact on installation time is the Visual Studio Integration section where you could select which products should integrate with Visual Studio.
We offer integration for many Visual Studio versions and instances so here you could turn off the integrations for products and versions of Visual Studio you might not be using as installing this integration usually takes noticeable time and this time is longer with each additional product and Visual Studio instance combination that needs to be installed.
After you log in and the installation starts you are presented with installation progress page which displays the progress of each product download and installation.
Please let us know if there was some difference in your experience or if you have additional feedback which could help us improve the installation experience.