Major speed decrease ripping/burning dvds

ShBm

ShBm

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I've been having this problem lately. On my laptop, I used to be able to rip dvds in about 20 mins., and burn them in roughly 10. Now, it's taking me over two hours to rip and almost two more to burn. For some reason this is only happening for dvds; cds work just fine (ripping at least, I haven't tried burning one).

Any idea why I would suffer a performance loss only for dvds? Or what to do?

*This is using DVDShrink, Nero and DVD Decrypter if applicable.
 
Besides reducing the amount of items that autoload along with Windows with the msconfig utility your system registry is probably starting see garbage buildup there. The media you use will also have an effect. Unlike cd writing dvd burning taxes desktops as well. For a portable the demand on resource is even more noticible. The eventual lack of hard drive space available for virtual memory can also see things slow down as well as registry keys possible seeing crosslinks if not corrupted somehow.
 
Well, I have noticed that ripping is even more taxing on my system than usual, and so is burning (something that never used much cpu/ram before; it's to the point that I can hardly run other things during burning). I have disabled any sort of autoload, and I use CCLeaner frequently to reduce clutter in my registry and on my drives.

I realize it will use a lot of resources to rip/burn dvds, but I'm wondering why it's starting now. It never had these problems before.
 
Have you ever tried RegCleaner? http://www.dewassoc.com/support/useful/regcleaner.htm This will cleanup a ton of crap leftover in the system registry that may also be still trying to load drivers from some programs you have already removed. Also open up the task manager when going to burn a disk to how many processes other then SYSTEM are running under your user name.

Ending a few of those known to be from programs you don't need running in the background can help. But you still may be forced to reistall the softwares to see working results. Ripping a disk even dvd shouldn't even be taking 20min.! Burning dvds yes that will grab some time and resources there.
 
Sounds like fragmentation may be your problem....

When my hard drive was REALLY highly fragmented, it would take me 15-20 minutes to burn a dd at 16x, because it would have to pause and refill the buffer every 3-5%!!

Some dvd's are just hard to rip, tho. I wouldn't discount that entirely.
 
When moving a number of video files and burning vcds as well as dvds any drive will start seeing a degree of fragmented files lingering around. Two out of three Windows installations here are 100% free of fragmentation due to just seeing fresh partitions when going to install the muliboot here. The host drive will still need some cleanup here.

The best articles seen on improving overall system performance include using the msconfig utility to unload anything unnecassary, defragging the drive regularly, and cleaning up the system registry itself. But eventually drivers for the softwares used become tainted or lost where a fresh installation is then needed for things to work properly again.
 
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