why slow performance

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what might be the reason for an excessive hard drive running when I make
minor changes in a 20 minutes long movie. Because of this hard drive running
the processing of any command takes about 5-20 minutes. Because of this
slowness I can not preview my movie before saving it in the final format.

My system: 2.1 Ghz processor, 120 Gb hd, XP with SP2, 500 kb RAM. virtual
memory set at 1500 kb.

When the hard drive is run the processor is idle (about 2 % load). My movie
has about 20 clips, some additional music, the video is digitial video at
720x480 pixels at 30 fps.

Is this simply too much for the MovieMaker or what might be the problem. Any
and all help is greatly appreciated since currently any change takes about 20
minutes to take effect and nothing can be previewed.

I have spent few days reading the posts on this and papajohn's boards
finding little help for this moviemaker problem.

thanks in advance
 
dangle_two said:
what might be the reason for an excessive hard drive running when I
make minor changes in a 20 minutes long movie. Because of this hard
drive running the processing of any command takes about 5-20 minutes.
Because of this slowness I can not preview my movie before saving it
in the final format.

My system: 2.1 Ghz processor, 120 Gb hd, XP with SP2, 500 kb RAM.
virtual memory set at 1500 kb.

When the hard drive is run the processor is idle (about 2 % load). My
movie has about 20 clips, some additional music, the video is
digitial video at 720x480 pixels at 30 fps.

Is this simply too much for the MovieMaker or what might be the
problem. Any and all help is greatly appreciated since currently any
change takes about 20 minutes to take effect and nothing can be
previewed.

I have spent few days reading the posts on this and papajohn's boards
finding little help for this moviemaker problem.

thanks in advance
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Video editing is resource intensive and
your system is somewhat minimal. More
RAM and a larger hard drive could help.

Also...it could help to disconnect from the
net and close all programs especially virus
scanners before opening Movie Maker.

And it might be worth a try to do some
maintenance...

Empty your Temporary Internet Files Folder.

(260897) How to Delete the Contents of the
Temporary Internet Files Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=260897

Running Disk Cleanup, Error Checking and
Defrag on a regular schedule is a good idea.

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

(315265) How to Perform Disk Error Checking
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265
(check the two boxes..."Automatically fix file
system errors" and "Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors") the utility will run
the next time you restart your computer.
(run error checking repeatedly until it finds
no errors)

(314848) How to Defragment Your Disk
Drive Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848

--

John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
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