Vista media centre slow

You can also replace the thumbnails that Media Center uses for folders with a. I hope this helps. Thanks for the response Baldy Breeder, but I don't think generating the thumbnail is the issue.

The thumbnails are all generated and displayed, but as you arrow across them the system freezes for a period, unless you pause a few seconds on each. Monday, December 31, PM. After hunting around for 2 months the most likely culprit is the the way thumbnails are generated. The thumbnail databse is stored on your WHS in the same folder as the video files. Transfer a few videos to a folder 20 or so and test without inserting your own thumbnails and also with.

What have you got to loose? I know what you mean, it took me some time to get all the. But, the lack of freezing when going into my video library made it worth it. If it doesn't get sorted, drop back so one of the WHS gurus can have a crack at solving the problem.

Happy New Year! Thanks for the pointer. Tuesday, January 1, AM. Anyone able to assist here? Thursday, February 7, AM. Tuesday, February 12, PM. I understand that if you use Vista, there is a media service related to Windows Media Player that reserves a great deal of bandwidth for itself.

This manifests itself in very slow network performance. Wednesday, February 13, AM. My host was not particularly new, a 3yo PC with the following specs:. I figured it would be a stretch for this machine to run a VM as well, but it was worth the try. I used VMWare Workstation 6. It was awful, woefully slow, rendering the machine unable to even record TV shows. Virtual machine config was easy.

Sound and other unnecessary things were removed. Home server will install on the above with no major configuration steps. All drivers are fine. I would use a virtual IDE. Once mine was installed I added the extra disks. Initially I tried the disks as Direct Physical access.

They were setup with a partition, but no drive letter, as per the vmware help. The VM would not even boot and there was a disk access conflict. I tried VMWare Server 2. VMWare Server 1. The CPU load is normal using this card as opposed to the on board port. I have left it on the VM disk to optimise space for TV recordings.

Next issue was awful network performance between the Host and Guest. TCP Offload seemed to be a recurring theme here. TCP Offload disabled on the host and now I get the same network performance anywhere. This is not a fault with VMWare, but does seem to be a common compatibility issue with many network adapters, my onboard nic being one of them. As far as I'm concerned, Windows Media Center is one of the best-- if not the best-- applications Microsoft has ever created.

And it was written in. NET to boot. I've been a huge MCE enthusiast since the original version was released in , so I was greatly looking forward to the Vista edition of Media Center. I've slowly been upgrading my Home Theater PC over the last two years in anticipation of the shift to Vista: 2. But that's probably another months out. I wasn't disappointed.