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1.36 minutes to load seems like a long time, mine starts up much faster then that on a 733Mhz PIII, also if its taking that long to start it would probly take 10-20 seconds to go into each item if loaded dynamically I would rather have 1.36 minute startup time and almost instant time switching from video to audio, slideshow, etc then shorter loading time and longer switching time, afterall Media Portal was designed to be started with the computer and then stay running, atleast thats what most people do with there HTPC, also I hope that 9MB ram is a typo, although that could explain the really long loading times but its an odd number to have, maybe you meant 96MB, in which case I would throw another 128-256MB ram in and it will probly speed up your loading times dramatically, with 96 MB ram with windows XP, MP will probly be almost all in SWAP file (the space on the hard drive where memory is stored when your programs allocate more memory then you have RAM) also if your ram is that low I would look through the windows services and disable the ones you dont need like terminal services, windows messaging services, etc

<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 11671"><p>1.36 minutes to load seems like a long time, mine starts up much faster then that on a 733Mhz PIII, also if its taking that long to start it would probly take 10-20 seconds to go into each item if loaded dynamically I would rather have 1.36 minute startup time and almost instant time switching from video to audio, slideshow, etc then shorter loading time and longer switching time, afterall Media Portal was designed to be started with the computer and then stay running, atleast thats what most people do with there HTPC, also I hope that 9MB ram is a typo, although that could explain the really long loading times but its an odd number to have, maybe you meant 96MB, in which case I would throw another 128-256MB ram in and it will probly speed up your loading times dramatically, with 96 MB ram with windows XP, MP will probly be almost all in SWAP file (the space on the hard drive where memory is stored when your programs allocate more memory then you have RAM) also if your ram is that low I would look through the windows services and disable the ones you dont need like terminal services, windows messaging services, etc</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 11671"] 1.36 minutes to load seems like a long time, mine starts up much faster then that on a 733Mhz PIII, also if its taking that long to start it would probly take 10-20 seconds to go into each item if loaded dynamically I would rather have 1.36 minute startup time and almost instant time switching from video to audio, slideshow, etc then shorter loading time and longer switching time, afterall Media Portal was designed to be started with the computer and then stay running, atleast thats what most people do with there HTPC, also I hope that 9MB ram is a typo, although that could explain the really long loading times but its an odd number to have, maybe you meant 96MB, in which case I would throw another 128-256MB ram in and it will probly speed up your loading times dramatically, with 96 MB ram with windows XP, MP will probly be almost all in SWAP file (the space on the hard drive where memory is stored when your programs allocate more memory then you have RAM) also if your ram is that low I would look through the windows services and disable the ones you dont need like terminal services, windows messaging services, etc [/QUOTE]