We are searching all over the internet in an attempt to bring you whatever useful information regarding Zune that we can. Today we noticed Tom Fuller’s blog over at SOSPitstop.com, where he discusses ways to speed up Zune Software by editing a few command-line options. Heres a snippet from his blog:

The command-line options I found:

• -animations:(true|false) Enable or disable fading effects.
• -gdi Use GDI instead of DirectX, seems to disable animations and probably give some legacy support. This is mentioned in the Zune 2.3 release notes.
• -switchtogdi Permanently switch to GDI rendering. makes registry entry change in general settings: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Zune\GeneralSettings\UseGDI=1
• -dx9 Use DirectX9 compatibility? Probably.
• -direction:(rtl|ltr) Use Right-to-Left rendering for languages that require it.

So for example, you want to start by disabling the fancy slide and fade animations to see what effect that has. Create a shortcut to the Zune.exe file, edit the properties of the shortcut and add -animations:false to the end of the command line.

That was nice, but you still have some issues, so you want to drop DirectX and go with a straight GDI application. I don’t know much about Vista, but I have a nagging thought that Vista did away with GDI, so if you’re on Vista, I don’t know what will happen. So you create the shortcut and add -gdi to the end of the command line.

We at FZD have not attempted any of these as of yet (not really sure we’re in the market to try this at the moment), so, if anyone out there has given this a shot, please drop us a line and let us know how it went.

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