My TR slows down when im writing a dvd. The cpu activity doesnt increase anything more than 30 % most of the time. Having said that though it could spur upto about 90 % at times. The overall operation of the TR is considerably slower. I am running 512 MB ram at the moment, and cannot really afford to upgrade right now. So can you guys suggest some tweaking options ? Should i uninstall norton ? I think it could be taking up a lot of memory.
Help appreciated.

[quote author=“writetovarun”]My TR slows down when im writing a dvd. The cpu activity doesnt increase anything more than 30 % most of the time. Having said that though it could spur upto about 90 % at times. The overall operation of the TR is considerably slower. I am running 512 MB ram at the moment, and cannot really afford to upgrade right now. So can you guys suggest some tweaking options ? Should i uninstall norton ? I think it could be taking up a lot of memory.
Help appreciated.

You can *carefully* evaluate all of your background tasks and turn off or disable unneeded ones. You could exit Norton and other system tray utilities prior to writing—everything will be back to normal on reboot. I’d say that, as a general rule, when writing a DVD keep contention for resources to a minimum.

if you’re burning a dvd, i wouldn’t even touch the computer hahaha

everytime i tap on the compute rwhile burning a cd, i always create a new coaster

as for tweeking your laptop, just remove all the programs you never use

make sure your power profile is set to performace, and your cpu fan is on max

I checked all my XP processes against the checklist on this site   . I don’t have much clue what must run and what can be killed and this list helped me.