The full install of Pro completed for me in 23 minutes with 1 reboot. Ans that was in a virtual machine, with 7 as the host and Server 2008 as the guest.
Express edition is not what I would call a slim piece of software, but your experience would lead me to believe you are on some seriously old hardware or there is something very wrong with your system.
Just so you know - what you're experiencing is not normal... at all.
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