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Originally Posted by IMind
Before running out and buying anything... what's the disc situation like, when was the last time you defragged. Windows is incredibly disk bound. It swaps disk A LOT. The default power plan in Vista is Balanced. Change it to high performance. Vista by default throttles CPU utilization to 50%.
the most likely culprit though is WinDVD. If tweaking the system doesn't help at all I'd upgrade to the latest and greatest version of WinDVD.
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man i forgot all about the cpu usage throttle
I created my own power scheme, that is basically 10 min sleep, 8 minute monitor shut off, cpu full power