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Hi Chris. Thanks for using our Forums. I moved your Thread to the Microstudio Help Forum as it belongs here. Singers and Hosts Wisdom is a general discussion Forum that is not product specific.

The usual cause of slow drives is your Windows Autorun is enabled for this drive.

Another reason to disable Autorun is that add on Sound Cards have software with proprietary players that pop up and attempt to play any audio CD, which includes Karaoke CDG discs.

Autorun causes extra delays for the drive to spin-up, to load unwanted software and to display advertisements embedded on some CDG discs.

Follow these steps to disable Autorun on a CD/DVD drive (this is from the Hoster Manual Troubleshooting Guide Section “Reducing Audio Drops While Playing"):

1. Click the Start button
   
   
2. Click the Run command
   
   
3. Type in regedit and press the Enter key
   
   
4. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and click the + at its left to open its contents up
   
   
5. Scroll down to System and click the + to its left
   
   
6. Locate CurrentControlSet and click the + to its left
   
   
7. Locate Services and click the + to its left
   
   
8. Locate Cdrom and click it directly to see its contents on the right screen. If you have more than one CD/DVD/ROM drive, I suggest you disable Autorun for each drive.
   
   
9. Locate Autorun and move your mouse to it, then click and release your RIGHT mouse button. In the menu that appears, move your mouse to Modify and click your mouse LEFT button to see an edit dialog box. Enter zero (0 must replace the default 1) and click the OK button. This disbles Autorun for this drive.
   
   
10. Click the X icon at the top right of this RegEdit screen to close it.

Your drive should now run faster. If not, post back here again, or post to tell us this solved your problem.