Originally posted by attar:

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Try the portable version.

Thanks Attar, for the prompt reply.

Sadly - no improvement to the situation. I uninstalled Shrink (using Your Uninstaller)and installed the suggested download.
I kept loading clips (some quite small) till the line reached 4463 MB (20 clips) then I deleted one leaving 4371 MB. and pressed backup
Shrink seemed to consider the task for almost 2 minutes before displaying the request screen. I chose to save the result to a folder rather than burn and disabled the preview.
At 4.13 pm Shrink looked like it was working:

Rate 23 365 Buffered 128MB
But within a couple of minutes the rate had reduced to 5.945 (still 128 buffered)

I minimised it and went shopping - there was nothing else running.

At 7.15 pm tonight, I checked to see what had happened and was disappointed to find the rate was now 91 128 was still buffered and it claimed it would take another 13.4 hours!!

I have had no problems with the computer, not changed anything and use the same (Microsoft) antivirus and Malwarebytes etc and the computer is clean...I HAVE also tried leaving AnyDVDon and also disabling it but no change to the results.

I may have to test drive other DVD maker programs but Shrink was so instinctive and easy for an old codger to use - I am reluctant.

Roger.