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DVD Profiler Startup Time
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registranttjenkins99
Registered: February 9, 2008
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When I startup DVDP on my Windows 7 desktop, it takes 1 minute and 20 seconds before it is fully up. I have about 1500 dvds in my DVDP catalog. I created a new database and cataloged 8 dvd-s and it took 116 seconds to start up. Anybody have any idea what is going wrong?
I am running Win7, 64-bit, on a Dell XPS 8500, i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67 GHZ, with 9 GB RAM.

Thanks.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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Sounds fairly normal to me for a collection that size.
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windows 7 is my OS  and  with 1700 titles..  23 seconds to fully open...
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Windows 7, 5000+ titles and it only takes maybe 30 seconds or so.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorKathy
Registered: May 29, 2007
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It took 40 seconds to open 15,938 titles.

So, it seems that it is taking too much time to open yours.

Have you tried a database repair? I always try this first if things don't seem to be working right.

Tools > Utilities > Repair Profile Database.
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From the knowledgbase article on speeding up startup, here's something to try:

"Select Tools->Options->Defaults and under "Regions to Include," uncheck any regions you don't need loaded. This affects the list of available profiles in the Add to Collection window."

Search the knowledgebase (under support above) for 'speed' to read more.

As an example, my collection of ~3000 takes 11 seconds to start up.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantBlair
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Registered: October 30, 2008
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After doing a database repair as suchhested above, if this does not change anything, is there any lag with other programs when starting them for the first time after a system shutdown?

Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open your Task Manager and click on the Performance tab. How much memory is currently being used, and watching for a minute without doing anything else, are there are any great spikes or hovering highs above 2% to 5% under CPU Usage?
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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Sounds like something is really wrong.. My setup isn't as fast as yours and I have 3,000 and it takes about 40 seconds to load, and I have all the regions selected on default.

If hte repair doesn't work, I might try a full backup and then  uninstalling DVDP, rebooting, reinstalling DVDP and restoring your backup.
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Quoting widescreenforever:
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windows 7 is my OS  and  with 1700 titles..  23 seconds to fully open...

This is in line with my measurement result. All regions checked, Windows 7 32-bit, Profiler started from your usual SATA hard disk drive, without interfering software installations eg security suites, on an almost 5 year old machine (Core2 Quad, 4 GB RAM).
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Windows 7, 5300+ titles, takes 11 seconds to load
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Windows 7 64-bit with 3000+ titles took 19 secs. to load.
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my other PC here the XP pro.. took 30 seconds to open .. unchecked all regions I don't need and only kept region one .. that took the opening time down to 15 seconds ...
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Windows 7 x64, 8 GB RAM. 15 seconds to startup 3904 profiles.

But my Profiler database data is stored on an SSD drive.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorGSyren
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Guess it's time to start thinking of getting a faster 'puter.
60 seconds with c:a 5000 profiles. Win 7 32 bit, 2 GB RAM.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorSrehtims
Registered: March 13, 2007
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My system is pretty old and a lot of things have improved. Example I could really use  USB 3 to My Book 2T drive for backup, a better graphic and more memory.
W7 Ultimate (64), AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.30 Ghz
It took 90 seconds, 19,089 profiles this morning. That is with a fresh defrag, (0 fragged files), and system cleaned of clutter and some back ground programs removed before I put the computer to sleep last night.
DVD Profiler runs at  537,992K. I have two extra lists, Misc for duplicat film (blu-ray updates and one for lecture and courses), extra genre types and a lot of flags.

But it has taken up to 4 to 5 minutes with a dirty system. I usually know when going to happen and jack-up 'the profile'rs priority while it is loading.

Control Panel: Performance Information and Tools to get your computer performance rating. Mine is 5.1 to .9, except for graphics which I know needs to be upgraded, it is in the 3.5range.

I have increased the paging start and max size, because I usually run several programs when I'm building profiles and set the processor for best performance..

Under Advanced Tools there are some things to look at & try, but remember what you mess with so you can put it back.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorNexus the Sixth
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Less than 35 seconds on my old Dell desktop computer from 2006. I upgraded to Windows 7, a HD graphics card and 4 GB of memory a few years ago but other than that it has not been touched. But I keep my system neat and tidy, no unnecessary background services that drag the performance down.

Even om my 1.33 GHz Atom netbook with 2 GB memory the startup time isn't too bad, but probably over a minute.
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