While the humble 24x DVD drive should be able to deliver speeds of roughly 30MB/s that is usually the best case scenario, with real world read speeds across the whole install much lower.
As long as your USB drive is up to snuff, this massively reduces the install time of Windows thanks to the USB drive's far superior sustained transfer speeds. The first utility, WintoFlash, is a very simple application that accomplishes the not so simple task of making any version of Windows bootable from a flash drive. Luckily though there are tools out there which can massively speed up your re-installs and I've found that using WintoFlash and I can fully reinstall a system in as little as thirty minutes. Unless you're deploying using drive imaging though this can take a while, first waiting for Windows to install and then laboriously installing all the necessary software. I don't mind when open source or freeware creators add such options to their installers so they can make a little money, but Adobe?!! Greedy SOBs.If you're like me you've probably had to install Windows 7 on more than one or two computers recently, either in your household or at work. They get money for including the options for installing other software in their installer. Why? The answer, as semllbs says, is that Adobe is looking to make more money.
After I go the extra mile to upgrade their sh*tty product, I find that Adobe has the nerve to try to foist a copy of McAfee Antivirus on me.
In order to make sure the updates work, I always look for a manual, standalone installer for Flash player (which for some reason is not easily found). If an error message shows at all, it is typically an obscure one. On the thirty or so 64bit Windows 7 machines that we have in our department, the "automatic" Flash updates almost NEVER work.
Adobe doesn't care about making life easier for system administrators or for ordinary folk, otherwise they would not block ninite or hassle them (see .uk/1/adobe_says_no/).
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