How Can I Pre-fetch VLC Player to Load Faster?

**obla** · September 24th, 2009, 01:10 PM

How can I set up a program to start up quickly? When I click on the desktop icon for VLC player, it takes 8 secs to load up. Is there a way to add VLC player as a pre-fetch so that when I click on it, it loads up faster?

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**CCT** · September 24th, 2009, 03:05 PM

Have you checked your pre-fetch list to see if it isn't actually pre-fetching that?

http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/sof...9172453,00.htm

**Ferrit** · September 24th, 2009, 04:46 PM

On my machine vlc loads in about 1.5 seconds
First off are you just clicking on the vlc link and opening it?
Or are you right clicking a file and choosing Open With?

**obla** · September 25th, 2009, 07:49 AM

Originally Posted by CCT

Have you checked your pre-fetch list to see if it isn't actually pre-fetching that?

http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/sof...9172453,00.htm

Hi, CCT. I do see VLC listed in the prefetch folder. But, it should load up as quickly as the other apps listed in the prefetch folder. But it's not. This is weird. Any suggestions?

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**obla** · September 25th, 2009, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by Ferrit

On my machine vlc loads in about 1.5 seconds
First off are you just clicking on the vlc link and opening it?
Or are you right clicking a file and choosing Open With?

Hi, Ferrit. To answer your question, I'm clicking on the VLC link, not a file like an MP4 or MP3. And, as I answered CCT's question, I don't understand why VLC doesn't load up as quickly as the other applications that are prefetched. It should load up fast. What do you think?

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**CCT** · September 25th, 2009, 08:00 AM

In a nutshell, the program load speed is a function of processor speed and available ram (ram available after all other stuff is loaded in).

Watcha got?

**Ferrit** · September 25th, 2009, 10:02 AM

Spell out your specifications for the computer

**obla** · September 25th, 2009, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by Ferrit

Spell out your specifications for the computer

To CCT & Ferrit:

To answer you guy's question, I got XP SP3 on a Gateway laptop running 1.3 Ghz @ 1.5 GB of memory with 80 GB of storage. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks.

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**TrekCaptainUSA** · September 25th, 2009, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by obla

To CCT & Ferrit:

To answer you guy's question, I got XP SP3 on a Gateway laptop running 1.3 Ghz @ 1.5 GB of memory with 80 GB of storage. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks.

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1.3GHz processor... not extremely fast. Doesn't give you lots of processing power, either.

1.5GB Memory... decent, but it would work better if you had 2GB of memory or more.

80GB of Storage (as in HDD capacity)... how much of the 80GB is being used? If it's about 50% full, VLC will take at least 5 seconds to load (figured this out because of my Desktop, where the drive is 85% full :P). Especially with your processor and memory.

***EDIT: I don't usually recommend this, but there IS a portable-ized version of VLC Media Player at portableapps.com, and it runs fairly well even on an old Gateway laptop running Win2000 with a 1.25 GHz Pentium 3 processor, with only 20GB hard drive space total (only 5GB are free :P). And it runs off of a flash drive, iPod, memory card, etc. on any Windows computer running Win2K or later.***

**obla** · September 25th, 2009, 10:30 PM

Originally Posted by TrekCaptainUSA

1.3GHz processor... not extremely fast. Doesn't give you lots of processing power, either.

1.5GB Memory... decent, but it would work better if you had 2GB of memory or more.

80GB of Storage (as in HDD capacity)... how much of the 80GB is being used? If it's about 50% full, VLC will take at least 5 seconds to load (figured this out because of my Desktop, where the drive is 85% full :P). Especially with your processor and memory.

Thanks, guys. I appreciate the response.

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