I had the same problem with Windows 7 and Miktex 2.8 at work (at home I use Archlinux) and what fixed it was to go to
Miktex > Maintainance > Settings
and in the General tab change "Install missing packages on the fly" from "Yes" to "No" (instead install them manually...)
Hope it works for you ...
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- by bjarnheidur
- Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:33 pm
- Forum: MiKTeX and proTeXt
- Topic: Miktex 2.9 (pdflatex) very slow with figures
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