Movie Maker takes up 100% as soon as I drag a clip to the storyboa

I have been using MM2 since it introduced. Recently, it started to feel very
sluggish. I am using MM2 v2.1, the latest one.

I found out that as soon as I drag any movie clip (in wmv format) to the
story board, CPU usage will jump and stay in 100% all the time, causing the
sluggish. When that occured, if I played the clip from the storyboard for a
brief moment and stopped, sometime the CPU usage would go back to idle.

Any clue what's going on, codec conflict? Yes, my computer is fully
optimized. (no disc fragmentation...whatsoever). And MM2 was running fine
until last few months...

Any insight?

Graham
Tue Oct 17 12:02:19 CDT 2006

Uncheck the codecs in MM and then tiurn them back on one by one and see
which if any is causing it.
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/HowDoIOpenCompatibilityTab.htm

Have you installed anything new since it last worked, or removed anything?

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"Arnold" <Arnold@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:599C154B-7BC2-49B1-ACCC-7005055CF657@microsoft.com...
>I have been using MM2 since it introduced. Recently, it started to feel
>very
> sluggish. I am using MM2 v2.1, the latest one.
>
> I found out that as soon as I drag any movie clip (in wmv format) to the
> story board, CPU usage will jump and stay in 100% all the time, causing
> the
> sluggish. When that occured, if I played the clip from the storyboard for
> a
> brief moment and stopped, sometime the CPU usage would go back to idle.
>
> Any clue what's going on, codec conflict? Yes, my computer is fully
> optimized. (no disc fragmentation...whatsoever). And MM2 was running fine
> until last few months...
>
> Any insight?

Arnold
Wed Oct 18 03:51:01 CDT 2006

Thx for the reply but it's not the codec issue. I tried to uninstall
codec-related applications one by one (Nero, MyDVD) and still no luck.

It turned out that I solved it by disabling CA eTrust EZ AntiVirus real-time
protection. Now, when I drag a short clip to the storyboard, I only got a
short burst of high cpu usage, about 5 seconds instead of like forever
before. I suppose this symptom starts to occur when I switched to CA
internet security suite.

Wonder if this is an expected behavior that anti-virus program will drag
down the performance of MM2 so much. It works for me anyway.

John
Wed Oct 18 11:56:22 CDT 2006

Arnold wrote:
>snip<
> Wonder if this is an expected behavior that anti-virus program will
> drag down the performance of MM2 so much. It works for me anyway.
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To maximize resources when using Movie
Maker it's a good idea to disconnect from
the net and close all programs especially
virus scanners.

Regular maintenance can improve
performance also:

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



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