Adobe Lightroom 3.4 update process

Apparently, Adobe Lightroom uses Adobe Camera RAW for raw image processing just like Photoshop, however unlike Photoshop, every time that a new camera is added or a bug fixed in Lightroom's raw image processor, Adobe released an entirely new Lightroom application update weighing in at more than 200 megabytes which I have to download and install.
Given that Adobe Photoshop uses Adobe Camera RAW as a dynamic linked library why can't Adobe Lightroom also isolate its version of Camera RAW into a dynamic library that can be updated independently of the main Lightroom application?  Doing this would make it much easier to add additional cameras to Lightroom without having to both download 200MB and install a new application. Each time I install a new Lightroom update, the install process leaves behind the directory for the old version since Adobe prefers to create minor version specific program files directories and it screws up Windows Vista/7 functions such as the Photo import dialog which now shows multiple entries for Adobe Lightroom (once for each time I updated). I can't figure out how to delete the multiple entries or which one to click on.
Now don't get me started on the basic performance of Lightroom 3.3 on anything but a recent highly spec'd laptop. On my now low-end dual core 32bit Windows 7 laptop with 3GB of RAM It takes about 8 to ten seconds *per image* to get the "loading" message to go away when an image is selected in the Develop panel. This occurs even if I continually keep switching between the same two images -- as if Lightroom is not caching anything at all even though I have enlarged my Camera RAW cache to 10GB.

Unfortunately everything is going against you. The main reason why the provide it as a single file is for several reasons:
1) You can update from any version in one click and voila! you're done.
2) Providing one file is less confusing for the masses and less tech support issues in regards to upgrade paths.
3) The installation replaces every file so as to not cause any versioning issues which might arise if you are not upgrading from the previous version (yes I know there is ways around this but they're trying to make it simplistic).
4) Helps maintain the ability to supply a demo version of the latest version plus protect their system because if you have a "dodge" copy and you're upgrading, then it's going to have a tanty at you.
And so on... there are always reasons for doing things and Adobe decided that it's just better this way for everyone involved.
With the versioning issue, this is not true. If you look inside the directory you should only find empty folders. If they are empty, then just simply remove them. If there is still files, then you have a serious problem somewhere and I'd suggest you try to do a full clean install to fix that problem. I just updated to 3.4 last night and went through to clean out the empty 3.4 RC directories. Never had an issue upgrading and I always use the RC before it goes final.
When it comes to your computer then I can only say that with a forever increasing volume of photographs being catalogued you are going to experience slowdown not to mention all the changes which you have applied to your photographs. No matter how big your cache is, you are going to be limited by sheer grunt power and disk performance.
If you want to get a performance boost then I recommend swapping out that horribly slow 5400 (or slower) rpm hard drive in the notebook and put in a SSD instead. This will give your notebook an awesome new lease on life and Lightroom will be much more responsive. If you place your catalogs onto the SSD and have separate high speed storage for your photographs then it should perform much better.
Other than that the only other option is to go to a dedicated PC or Mac for your photography needs and move on. Notebooks are really good but I've never viewed them as a platform to perform like a dedicated PC or Mac no matter how much money you throw at it.
Just be warned that a large Raw cache is a double edge knife. Too small is ineffective and Too large is only going to exacerbate your issue.

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