This article is perfect for people whose Zune programs are holding back their computers performance or is taking a really long time to convert audio and video files. Setting up Zune programs the wrong way can really result in lags and poor performance.
This article attacks the specific problems of a Zune program. This is the Zune program that comes with the Zune that you bought. Problems that could come up with the Zune program is that it will lag you computer, mess up your album information and will take forever to convert audio and video files.
Here’s what you can do:
Step 1
Turning off automatic album information updating
Problems:
- This slows down your Zune program because after updating 5 songs, you will get disconnected by Microsoft and you dont even notice it.
- After disconnection, the Zune programs tries to reconnect to the internet and that takes up processing power and bandwidth.
- The meta data that Microsoft adds to the files will screw up the manual labeling you did on all your files and will mess up your library altogether
Solution:
- Open your Zune programs and click on option which is a dropdown menu
- Mouse over Library and choose More Options.
- A little dialogue box will appear and all you have to do is uncheck the box next to Retrieve additional information from the Internet
- This will help Zune programs tremendously.
Step 2
Disabling the marketplace
Problem:
- Zune marketplace really slows the program down at start-up and generally causes lag
Solution:
- Manually disable the Zune marketplace
- Look for the marketplace file, it will most probably be in C:/Program Files/Zune in Windows Explorer
- Rename the file from ZuneMarketplace.dll to ZuneMarketplace 1.dll
- This will prevent the Zune program from accessing the marketplace because it cannot find the original file
Step 3
Changing Priority of the Zune encoder
Problem:
- The lag of the video converter really affects the performance of your Zune program
Solution:
- While you are converting a movie in your Zune program, open up the task manager
- Look for the ZuneEnc.exe which is part of the Zune program that is converting your video files
- Right-click on the process and set its priority to high.
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