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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 557610" data-attributes="member: 18896"><p><strong>Re: Reduce storage size of MovingPictures 'thumbs' folder.</strong></p><p></p><p>Yes, the videocard is more than adequate for HTPC usage. The CPU you have is a dual-core 1.8Ghz, which should be more then enough.</p><p></p><p>Do you perhaps have a lot of processes running in the background? Like a virus scanner perhaps? If you scroll the list, the cover image is loaded, the backdrop is loaded, the movie information is loaded and tons of other little small things. So if you have a virus scanner (or something alike) running in the background that at the same time tries to scan all those files for a virus, you can imagine the slowdown this causes.</p><p></p><p>So perhaps all you need to do is 'tweak' your system and optimize it to run faster.</p><p></p><p>I've worked with computers that had 118 processes running (for all users), that after I was done with it were down to 45 and made things run fast again, because the owner like you thought he needed to buy a faster one. I'm logged in via RDP to my HTPC which my wife is using right now to watch movies with and it's running 46 processes and using between 7% and 59% CPU usage (this is including her playing a movie that I hear in the background).</p><p></p><p>Another impacting factor could be severe fragmentation on your harddisk. So download <a href="http://www.mydefrag.com/" target="_blank">MyDefrag v4.2.7</a> which I've found out to be a much better alternative then the stuff that Microsoft bundles with their OS, and run the 'Slow Optimize' script. If you have all your large data files on the same drive then you could exclude those by creating a custom defrag script, so it won't take forever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 557610, member: 18896"] [b]Re: Reduce storage size of MovingPictures 'thumbs' folder.[/b] Yes, the videocard is more than adequate for HTPC usage. The CPU you have is a dual-core 1.8Ghz, which should be more then enough. Do you perhaps have a lot of processes running in the background? Like a virus scanner perhaps? If you scroll the list, the cover image is loaded, the backdrop is loaded, the movie information is loaded and tons of other little small things. So if you have a virus scanner (or something alike) running in the background that at the same time tries to scan all those files for a virus, you can imagine the slowdown this causes. So perhaps all you need to do is 'tweak' your system and optimize it to run faster. I've worked with computers that had 118 processes running (for all users), that after I was done with it were down to 45 and made things run fast again, because the owner like you thought he needed to buy a faster one. I'm logged in via RDP to my HTPC which my wife is using right now to watch movies with and it's running 46 processes and using between 7% and 59% CPU usage (this is including her playing a movie that I hear in the background). Another impacting factor could be severe fragmentation on your harddisk. So download [url=http://www.mydefrag.com/]MyDefrag v4.2.7[/url] which I've found out to be a much better alternative then the stuff that Microsoft bundles with their OS, and run the 'Slow Optimize' script. If you have all your large data files on the same drive then you could exclude those by creating a custom defrag script, so it won't take forever. [/QUOTE]
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