I have a thought, probably not the answer, but it can't hurt. Depends on type of sound you have.
Right click on the speaker icon in your system tray, click playback devices, click the speakers option and then properties....it should show an enhancement tab, click that and check disable sound enhancements. See if this stops the stuttering.
If you believe it's the transfer rate, than I doubt this will fix the problem, but it's not invasive and easy to try so it's worth a shot. And if it doesn't work,then just do the same thing to enable enhancements.
This works for playback of music through Media Player and since Movie Maker is similar, maybe it might help.
I ''ll try tonight to implement the first 2 advices, since the third one is just a little bit expensive and disputed and the 4th already done!
I have to say though that enabling Hard Drive Cache makes me a little bit anxious, since many times happened to run out of battery without realizing it!?!?
Anyway, I 'll do the changes and let you know by tomorrow evening!
Thanks allot!
PS: As you said ...In meanwhile, I'm still waiting the SSD' prices to drop like everybody else!
your notebook should be setup that if the battary dies (or is close, 5%) that it saves the current state (and all programs running) and goes to sleep... this buys you some time (like an hour) to find a plug in... thats what i do, and i havnt lost any unsaved data... mind you, i have all of MS Office to auto save every minute... and anything else i dont really care if i loose... all it would be is game data...
shaglund1
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May 29th, 2008 01:00
you could...
disable drive indexing (in the properties and in windows services)
enable hard drive casheing (again in hard drive properties),
try using readyboost (with a HD SD card or flash drive),
look on the toshiba website for a boot disk for your hard drive and disable sound dampening and configure for max performance...
thats all i got to improve hard drive performance... wait for prices to drop on SSD's and get one of those (120MB/s transfer rates :smileyhappy:)
eskymi
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May 29th, 2008 11:00
I have a thought, probably not the answer, but it can't hurt. Depends on type of sound you have.
Right click on the speaker icon in your system tray, click playback devices, click the speakers option and then properties....it should show an enhancement tab, click that and check disable sound enhancements. See if this stops the stuttering.
If you believe it's the transfer rate, than I doubt this will fix the problem, but it's not invasive and easy to try so it's worth a shot. And if it doesn't work,then just do the same thing to enable enhancements.
This works for playback of music through Media Player and since Movie Maker is similar, maybe it might help.
geoapos
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May 29th, 2008 12:00
Thank you 'eskymi' for your post! This is something I haven't thought at all! I'll give it a try later tonight and come back with the results.
Thanks again!
PS: I love Dell too!
geoapos
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May 29th, 2008 12:00
Thank you "shaglund1" for your post!
I ''ll try tonight to implement the first 2 advices, since the third one is just a little bit expensive and disputed and the 4th already done!
I have to say though that enabling Hard Drive Cache makes me a little bit anxious, since many times happened to run out of battery without realizing it!?!?
Anyway, I 'll do the changes and let you know by tomorrow evening!
Thanks allot!
PS: As you said ...In meanwhile, I'm still waiting the SSD' prices to drop like everybody else!
shaglund1
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May 29th, 2008 23:00