I have been using Ulead VideoStudio 7 to create DVDs from home movies. I save the movies as an iso file and copy that to another computer which has a DVD burner on it. Since I have been using this Ulead software, my computer has become unreasonably slow. Could this be due to the file size (4.X GB)? I have deleted these files, defragmented, and run scandisk. The PC is still sluggish. When playing AVIs, the video pauses and the sound is off. It has a strange echo sound as well. Anybody have an idea what may have happened? Thanks, Scott

Go into Task Manager and see what is being loaded; sounds like you have something grabbing processor time. Obviously, if you are working with huge video files, at that time your computer is going to run slow. I see you are running a 1.6 GHz processor, which is slow for very large graphic files, and the ones that demand the most are video files.

Thanks. The computer is slow after I am finished processing the large files - even after they are deleted. The system never hav a problem playing AVIs before, but it almost seems damaged now. Scott

tried rebooting? checked for viruses? its unlikely, but there might be a virus running in the background and slowing things down

I have tried both - no luck. Does anybody think a repair install of XP would help? Would it be worth trying? Scott

its unlikely repairing windows would help, maybe reinstalling windows on top of itself would, not sure though. try viewing the AVI files with another application, is it still slow? try checking the Ulead's website for a patch if you can, download other software that lets you make dvds from your videos ... try that if you can, and if its still slow, try uninstalling VideoStudio and then trying the other application