Quote:Actually, I'm glad you solved your problem but in my case, it was pointed out on another website that when I replaced Windows ME with XP Pro on my weakling CPU (Athlon 1G with 1G Ram), XP Pro sucked the life blood out of the CPU.
I discovered that I could use Task Manager in XP to end the process explorer.exe and get the necessary CPU processing to get back to speed for Shrink. Once finished, use Task Manager file/new process(run)/type in explorer.exe and the desktop and all else comes back.
I may reinstall the old HD with Windows ME on it as it is much less demanding of the CPU.
I doubt this is your problem. My own computer is an old one, donated by some people that knew very little about how this things work. It had only 64Mb of RAM and they said it was very slow, blah, blah. It had Windows Me. It is an AMD 990 Mhz, and now with about 520 some Mb of RAM, half of what you have. I also upgraded to Windows XP( just basic, no pkg 1 or 2). I have no problems with no AVI, no DVD Shrink or anything. Running Nero 7, I can burn just fine. It does take about 100% of CPU when encoding/transcoding, but with no multitasking it works just fine. And for burning, you don't need as much CPU as you need RAM, and 1 GB like you have is more than plenty.
All I want to say is that Windows XP I don't think is the problem, no need to go back to Windows Me.
There are problems with corrupted Avis that can cause extreme CPU usage, but I don't know what the connection between Shrink and Avi files is, as DVD Shrink doesn't deal with Avi format. I have on my HDD, on a 50Gb partition, about 35 Gb of avis waiting to be converted. The largest is about 1Gb, but I never had any problems. I don't say is not happening, but again, I don't know how would that interfere with DVD Shrink.
if you did not fix it, you might want to read through these thareads, something that worked for other people:
PROBLEM SOLVED
I wasn't really certain when I first started having problems but retracing my steps, somewhere along the way I had installed a larger HD and upgraded from Win Me to XP Pro. Well after checking and varying every other possible configuration, I next upgraded to XP Pro w/ service pack 2... still NG.
Then what I did next fixed it all. Instead of just installing XP Pro on the new HD, I first installed Win Me that came with the HP computer THEN upgraded to XP Pro sp2 over the Win Me and now all is good. DVD Shrink is flying and no more explorer.exe hog. Hope this helps others lost in the woods.
