RE: MCE and "choppy" TV playback...

["John Andrews" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil

Have two disks i.e. separate out the windows / apps disk from the video
cache disk - this is always recommended for performance, even to the
extent of having a third disk for the windows swap file (this is from
fine tuning windows servers so should apply here)

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Phil Harris
Sent: 23 August 2005 22:30
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] MCE and "choppy" TV playback...



Hmmm ... Will give that a shot.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of patrick doocey
> Sent: 23 August 2005 11:52
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] MCE and "choppy" TV playback...
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> Hi Phil
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> contig.exe from www.sysinternals.com is a small free command
> line defragmentation tool, that can be run as a scheduled task.
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> I schedule it to run every night and it keeps my disks nice
> and fast and frag free. I have created a batch file called=20
> runcontig.bat containing...
> contig c:\*.* -s
> contig d:\*.* -s=20
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> The scheduled task just runs the batch file. Well I actually
> call runcontig.bat > contig.log so I can keep an eye on it=20
> periodically.
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> I haven't used this specifically on MCE, but I use it on all
> my windows machines...
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> sysinternals.com also have a utility called PageDefrag, which
> defragments your pagefile and other system files. Configure=20
> this to run at every boot - it usually only takes a few seconds.
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> Patrick
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