{"id":377,"date":"2026-11-09T13:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T13:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/?p=377"},"modified":"2026-11-09T13:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T13:34:15","slug":"vlc-speed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"VLC speed-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear that Microsoft Defender slowed down your VLC start-up time.<\/p>\n<p>If your VLC is not starting up within 1 second, try this:<\/p>\n<p>Expand the Start Menu, type &#8220;cmd&#8221; and pick &#8220;Run as administrator&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the box that pops up type:<\/p>\n<pre>\"C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc-cache-gen.exe\" \"C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\plugins\"<\/pre>\n<p>If that doesn&#8217;t work you might have the 32-bit version installed, so try:<\/p>\n<pre>\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc-cache-gen.exe\"\u00a0 \"c:\\Program Files (x86)\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\plugins\"<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear that Microsoft Defender slowed down your VLC start-up time. If your VLC is not starting up within 1 second, try this: Expand the Start Menu, type &#8220;cmd&#8221; and pick &#8220;Run as administrator&#8221;. In the box that pops up type: &#8220;C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc-cache-gen.exe&#8221; &#8220;C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\plugins&#8221; If that doesn&#8217;t work you might have the 32-bit version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}