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Windows Me - Optimize memory for video and audio editing

November 29, 2013
Updated: December 6, 2021
Quick overview:

If you are one of those users who use their PC as a video recorder or movie maker? These conversions require a lot of processing power and therefore even the fastest computers should be optimized for video editing and recording TV channels. However, we also recommend that you optimize your Windows for larger file and storage operations. And this is how you proceed:

1. Click in succession on Start > Settings > System control > System and switch to the tab Performance features. A click on the button File system opens another window.

2. Using the drag & drop method, drag the Read Ahead slider all the way to the left so that the text Windows does not read data in advance... appears.
      

The read optimization is set via this dialog to None regulated down

3. Now we leave this window and turn to the Troubleshooting to. Now click the checkmark in front of Deactivate delayed writing for all drives and confirm with Ok.

Despite the Windows warning in the help, you should activate this function

4. The window with the Performance characteristics should still be open in which you Virtual memory click. Enter a minimum and maximum of 512 Megabyte in.

After a restart, you can enjoy your movie at optimum speed.

NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.

Founded Windows Tweaks as a teenager in the 90s. His helpful PC tricks made it Germany's most visited Windows site (at the time Sandro looked like this). He then went on to write elsewhere, for example for PC-Praxis, Computer Bild and PCWorld in the USA. Microsoft also poached him from us. Now Sandro is back, finally sharing his tweaks here again. For a stress-free digital everyday life. You can reach Sandro via e-mail.

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