Abstract: A method, apparatus and system are disclosed for allowing prescribed components in the system to be started with minimal delay, wherein a multimedia system for a motor vehicle, which comprises a control unit and a plurality of prescribed components that can be selected and started by a user. The operating programs that are associated with at least one first component are provided with a greater proportion of the total available computational resources required for their execution. As a result, it becomes possible to use the at least one first component quite soon after the start-up phase of the system has begun.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and system are disclosed for allowing prescribed components in the system to be started with minimal delay, wherein a multimedia system for a motor vehicle, which comprises a control unit and a plurality of prescribed components that can be selected and started by a user. The operating programs that are associated with at least one first component are provided with a greater proportion of the total available computational resources required for their execution. As a result, it becomes possible to use the at least one first component quite soon after the start-up phase of the system has begun.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises an input device, a display unit and a memory. The input device receives a user request for selecting a current position in a data storage medium content directory. The display unit displays data entries in the data storage medium content directory in the form of at least one first list based on the current position in the data storage medium content directory. The memory includes at least one second list containing data entries. The second list comprises all entries of the first list. The apparatus reads at least one further data entry in the data storage medium content directory from the data storage medium and stores it in the second list, and replaces at least one data entry stored in the second list with the at least one further data entry.