Ever since I have been running Easy Creator 09, the computer slows to a crawl when I open Easy Creator. Whenever I pull in pictures to a slideshow, it takes pictures a long time to load where I can see them. I have uninstalled, reinstalled and updated all my drivers. I started wondering if my graphics card could be a problem. I am currently using the ATI All-In-Wonder 9600, does anyone know if this could be causing my slow running issues? I am running a Intel Pentium 4, 2.40 GHz, with a processor speed of 2.33 and 768 Ram. I would appreciate any help on this, thanks.

Media Manager might be slowing you down. Disable it for a while and see how it goes.

Update the drivers for that card from here.

How do you have the graphics on that card set up? Make sure oyu have the latest drivers, set the graphics to best performance, and set the anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing to software controlled.

If that doesn't help, open Video Wave and go to the top menu, select tools, options and then put a dot next to software. See if that speeds up the loading/rendering. Caution, you will lose any 3D transitions, etc by running in the software mode.

BTW, while you are selecting software mode, clear the proxy files.

Just so you will know, I have already disabled Media Manager. I hate to ask this, but how do you change the Graphics Card settings? Is this something go go through the All-in-wonder itself or straight to the PC? I looked at the all-in-wonder but could not find any settings. Once again thanks for the help.

You should have the Catalyst Control Center on your computer. You can use that. Just right click on an empty space on your desk top and you should see that option.

Thanks for your help, I was able to get into the Graphic Card and make the changes you suggested. I also updated the drivers and changed to run in Software mode. I think making the change to software mode might have helped a little, but it is still really slow. Just to clarify, it is not just loading pictures that runs slow it is the whole application. It's just that loading the pictures seems to be the longest part of the process and is just painful. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

Is it possible that you have your anti-virus set to scan all files including those already on your computer. I know that will slow it down and sometimes cause encoding and burning problems.

Increase your memory and/or reset your virtual memory in Windows. How full is your hard drive and when did you last defrag it? Get rid of all your temp/tmp and junk files. Use Auslogics Defragmenter to defrag and CCleaner to get rid of junk files. Both are free and work well.

For virtual memory

How many pictures are you trying to load at one time?

Have you tried the EMC 9.1 update?

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I do run defrag on my PC fairly often and try and keep all the junk files cleaned out. I put all of our home movies and pictures on DVD using MyDVD and since the Video Files are so large I always delete them after they are on DVD and run a defrag. With all the changes I have made the performace has improved without a doubt, I won't say it is fast, but it is certainly something I can live with. I have not put the 9.1 update on yet, but I will look into that later today, I did not realize there was an update avaliable. Anyway, thanks for everyones help, I really do appreciate it.