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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: craft on December 11, 2006, 02:10:02 pm

Title: Can i make MC
Post by: craft on December 11, 2006, 02:10:02 pm: null
Title: Re: Can i make MC more responsive?
Post by: JimH on December 11, 2006, 02:46:59 pm: Any third party plug-ins? Virus checker? Etc.
Title: Re: Can i make MC more responsive?
Post by: craft on December 12, 2006, 06:19:09 am: null.
Title: Re: Can i make MC more responsive?
Post by: JimH on December 13, 2006, 11:26:15 am: Disabling a virus checker may not be enough. Can you try uninstalling it?

Are the files local? Or on a network drive?
Title: Re: Can i make MC more responsive?
Post by: jgreen on December 13, 2006, 11:47:12 am: Craft--

Are you talking about Doof's Lyrics Editor plugin? It's a great plugin and I use it also, but it was accounting for an extra 30 seconds on startup. So I now default to hiding it under the plugin manager, and only enable it when I'm going to use it.
Title: Re: Can i make MC more responsive?
Post by: craft on December 14, 2006, 06:10:21 am: null
Title: Re: Can i make MC more responsive?
Post by: craft on December 18, 2006, 02:53:31 pm: null
Title: Re: Can i make MC more responsive?
Post by: glynor on December 18, 2006, 03:37:45 pm: I never think of this, because with Windows XP it's so easy to schedule a task to automatically defrag your drives. Check out this Microsoft support page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555098

You can of course set up different schedules for different days for the different drives on your system, and have them run overnight.

I have mine set up to run the defrag once every 2 weeks on my frequently modified drives (such as my drive N where all my "new" media goes, and my T drive which is my TV-recording drive), and once per month on my more stable drives. I never really have fragmenting problems anymore!
Title: Re: Can i make MC more responsive?
Post by: 0239666 on December 19, 2006, 01:20:29 pm: Which Hard disk did you defragment? The one with the operating system or the external drive or both? Because I am having the same problem.