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How can I make Media Player Classic (MPC) load faster?

April 26, 2017Classic faster load media MPC Player

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How can I make Media Player Classic (MPC) load faster?

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You can make Media Player Classic load a bit faster by storing it’s settings in the registry instead on in an .ini file (mplayerc.ini). To do this start Media Player Classic and click on View in the top menu, then click on Options… (the last item) and then uncheck Store settings to .ini file. It is not recommended to use this tweak if you have multiple user accounts on your system, because the settings are per user when stored in the registry instead of global when stored in an .ini file (which is default). Why isn’t this done by default? MPC stores it’s settings in the user part of the registry (HKCU). Each user account on a system has it’s own separate HKCU section, which is not accessable by the other users. This means that the installer can only apply (the recommended) settings for the active user account and not for the other accounts (if any). Using the .ini file is the only way to set the recommended settings global (for all users of the system).