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 * Optimise Media Centre for Smooth Performance **

Windows Media Centre is a great tool for viewing videos and TV programmes, and it is even designed to work on screens up to 10 feet wide, so you can connect your PC up to your home cinema system. However, Media Centre works best when it is playing back video files that have been optimised to run on it. The optimisation process, built-in to Media Centre, will organise your media files so that they work faster, re-index the files so that they can be found faster, and restart the Media Centre services to fix errors.

Unfortunately, the optimisation process can take a long time, especially if you have a big media library, but you can schedule the optimisation process to happen automatically.

Here’s how to do it:
 * 1) Open Windows Media Centre then click **Tasks** > **Settings**.
 * 2) Choose **General**, and then select **Optimizations**.
 * 3) Tick the option **Perform Optimization**, then select a time for the optimisation to occur (e.g. 1 am, as you will not be able to run Windows Media Centre while the optimisation process is running).
 * 4) Click **Save**, then close Media Centre.
 * 5) You will need to leave your PC switched on at the time you choose to run the optimisation in step 3.