Vista and Media DVDs - Useless ogman 6/7/2007 2:53:16 PM Unless somerone can explain this, I have to switch back to XP, because this is just nuts. I burned a dvd with family photos and movie clips. On my 4 year old XP machine, Windows reads the dvd in about a minute and displays the pictures in seconds. On my brand new Vista machine (5.5 Vista performance rating) Windows took over 5 minutes to read the dvd and an another minute or two to display the first picture. Additionally, as I scroll through the folder it can't keep up with the thumbnails. So let me get this straight, for media XP is the faster operating system, even on old hardware? I would never believe this was true if I were not seeing it.

Re: Vista and Media DVDs - Useless "Buellpilot" <colin_mcclinton[ at ]hotmail.co.uk> 6/7/2007 11:01:40 PM It is also possible that your older XP machine which was used to burn the DVD is having an easier time reading the DVD that it burnt in the first place. In your new Vista PC with a different DVD it maybe struggling and having to re-read portions of the DVD to get it to read error free. In which case this is not an OS problem but a potential DVD drive problem. It can be a common issue that burnt discs dont always read as well on other machines as they should... How does your Vista machine perform when playing a commercialy pressed DVD? "ogman" <ogman[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:22A4E8A3-1E25-4BB5-BE94-4F739738ABC5[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Unless somerone can explain this, I have to switch back to XP, because > this > is just nuts. I burned a dvd with family photos and movie clips. On my 4 > year > old XP machine, Windows reads the dvd in about a minute and displays the > pictures in seconds. On my brand new Vista machine (5.5 Vista performance > rating) Windows took over 5 minutes to read the dvd and an another minute > or > two to display the first picture. Additionally, as I scroll through the > folder it can't keep up with the thumbnails. > > So let me get this straight, for media XP is the faster operating system, > even on old hardware? I would never believe this was true if I were not > seeing it.

Re: Vista and Media DVDs - Useless ogman 6/8/2007 2:46:00 AM I'm sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough. The Vista machine is the one that I burned the DVD on. "Buellpilot" wrote: [Quoted Text] > It is also possible that your older XP machine which was used to burn the > DVD > is having an easier time reading the DVD that it burnt in the first place. > > In your new Vista PC with a different DVD it maybe struggling and having to > re-read portions of the DVD to get it to read error free. > > In which case this is not an OS problem but a potential DVD drive problem. > It can be a common issue that burnt discs dont always read as well on > other machines as they should... > > How does your Vista machine perform when playing a commercialy > pressed DVD? > > > > > "ogman" <ogman[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:22A4E8A3-1E25-4BB5-BE94-4F739738ABC5[ at ]microsoft.com... > > Unless somerone can explain this, I have to switch back to XP, because > > this > > is just nuts. I burned a dvd with family photos and movie clips. On my 4 > > year > > old XP machine, Windows reads the dvd in about a minute and displays the > > pictures in seconds. On my brand new Vista machine (5.5 Vista performance > > rating) Windows took over 5 minutes to read the dvd and an another minute > > or > > two to display the first picture. Additionally, as I scroll through the > > folder it can't keep up with the thumbnails. > > > > So let me get this straight, for media XP is the faster operating system, > > even on old hardware? I would never believe this was true if I were not > > seeing it. > > >