Navagon: They mentioned cleaning some malware off of their system with Avira. So a decent firewall/av combo should be adequate to stop it happening in future.

Wishbone: All three of the games mentioned are 1+ GB in size, and can take a considerable time to unpack, depending on his system configuration, available HDD space, amount of RAM, etc. He needs to give us more details, including how much HDD space is lost, for how long he's let the installer run, and of course his system specs.

Navagon: True, true. But none of the games would exactly tax a five year old system. If he's using Vista then it's a fair bet it's newer than that. But it's worth being sure. After all, Vista was installed on many inadequate systems. Not least of all laptops/netbooks.

Wishbone: Yeah, but it's not the games that are taxing the system, it's the decompression, which wasn't in the game originally. And Vista's file copy routine (which is used during decompression) is the worst and slowest Microsoft has ever produced.
And you're right about Vista and inadequate systems. The problem is that people buy them because they don't know any better. My niece got a laptop for her birthday. It runs Vista, and it has 1GB RAM. It's the slowest piece of shit I've ever seen. Why they even sell laptops with only 1GB RAM and friggin' Vista on them is a complete mystery to me.

Quad0: Hi everyone, new to the forums.
I've been able to successfully install games from gog before, but recently all of the games I've tried to install are returning the following problems:
Currently using: Windows Vista Business 32-bit edition.
-after file integrity check, the process freezes up while my computer's hard drive space slowly dwindles away.
-after changing the properties to run using Windows XP, the same problem as above occurs.
-after setting the installer to be 'run as administrator,' the file integrity check doesn't show up, and the memory leak occurs.
-after turning off the UAC, not only does the integrity check not show up, but the memory leakage stuck around for 2 days.
I've tried installing beyond good and evil, divine divinity, and arcanuum with no luck.
Anyone know what I can do? I'm wondering if it's a virus but I've run through a number of checks using different programs with everything turning up as clean.
I love this place and I'm glad gog is releasing these treasures. Much thanks to anyone that has any advice to this situation.

Quad0: Should've given my HDD space earlier, it was pretty low (4 gigs left after getting the install files). After freeing some space, it really was Vista: installation for Divine Divinity required room for installation files, actual game, and an extra 3-4 gigs for... something. That extra space was cleared after a restart. I'm still having trouble with specific games loading up, but that's for completely separate issues.
Really glad for all the help, you guys rock!