slow analyzing and encoding

I have a AMD Athlon 1.15 GHz , 384 mb ram, running xp pro, I have used DVDshrink and decrypter for the past week and backed up and burned about 10 dvd's.
All of the sudden it has gotten very slow and even errors like (cyclic redundancy error) which I know is usually bad disc or dirty, but what will slow the analyzing and encoding down ? before it took like 45 min to 1 hr, now its like 2 hrs, I have checked and my IDE says ( DMA if available) Please help

 

times will depend on how big the dvd is also for your pc specs that time scale can be expected similar to my old pc that had an average of 1hr 45mins and it could also go slower if you are using alot of hard drive space and a number of other pc performance related problems

 

Try to Defragment the HD Also DELETE the backed Movies from your HD


BTW I have a Pentium 4 2.6 Ghz, 640MB of RAM, XP Pro and it takes from :30 to 1:15 hrs, (so you're not that bad I guess)

 

thanks , I have defraged and cleaned out my pc as much as I can, Do you think increasing the virtual memory may help?

 

Yes it will help, not just with the DVDs but with everything you work on your PC, it will run faster
I will be incresing to 1024MB of RAM

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Now I am talking about virtual memory, not random access memory(RAM). If you are talking about ram I have 384MB, My virtual memory on the pc is set to 576mb, it can be set as high as 1152mb, if this will help , do you know?

 

I thought you were talking of RAM. But still been a YES to upgrade

 

thanks for the imformation

 

No problem try this too: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,6624,00.asp