How to change speed of reading of disks

Sometimes a disk with important and necessary information can not be read, or it has a crack where it is dangerous to insert such media into the drive. It is possible that the drive disk is very noisy, especially bothers when watching movies. In such cases, the best solution is to change the speed of reading of disks, namely, to limit the rotational speed of the drive.

Instruction

1. Download the program to control the speed of rotation of the disk in the drive. Start any browser and type in the address bar the following text: http://www.cdslow.webhost.ru/cdslow or http://www.cdspeed2000.com/download.html. Click the link to download the installation file or archive to work without installation. The first link leads to a site of the author of the domestic utility CDSlow - free tool to manage disk drives. The second link you 30 days to download a trial version of one of the programs of Nero.
2. When choosing, keep in mind that Nero provides more opportunities for the diagnostics of the parameters and possibilities of your equipment, has a beautiful interface and a wide range of parameters. However, she paid and more difficult to use. Russian utility is distributed with no restrictions on the period of use, has additional features and is fully controlled from the system area of the screen. She and the other program copes with its main task — establishes the maximum speed of reading of disks.
3. Install or remove the program from the archive. Double-click on the. exe file to start the installation wizard, and then answer the questions — i.e. click "Next" or "Next". If you downloaded the zip archive, simply right-click your mouse on the file, select "Extract" and put it in the appropriate folder. The fundamental difference between these choices. Easy for someone easier to get a shortcut on the desktop to run the program, and someone, on the contrary, it is more convenient to run the utility as needed from the folder on your hard drive or flash drive.
4. You can activate the software. Click on the desktop shortcut or the executable file CDSlow in the program folder. In the lower right corner of the screen, near the clock you will see a stylized icon of a disk. Move the mouse pointer on this icon and left-click to display a menu and change the speed of reading of disks. You will see a line with the name of the drive or drives of your computer. The above will indicate current speed in the form of "x48" or similar.
5. Click this label to change the current settings and set the desired speed. The smaller the number you specify, the slower will run the drive. Through the menu of the right mouse button you can call up the settings window and select the program from starting automatically with Windows, and other operating parameters.