Eeek help please!

Hi all... I'm having some trouble with my Dell laptop, running Windows XP Home edition. The problem is, my windows media player keeps skipping music every 3 or so seconds, AS WELL as my mouse will skip, I will be typing something on Word and it will skip and then show up 3 seconds later, etc. this only happens occasionally, but when it does happen, it goes on for a while.

Any ideas as to what could be causing this? I would be most appreciative of any help!

 

you CPU power is being eaten up by some other program or piece of code. this may include a virus-scanner/firewall, another program like Limewire, or worse, a virus or trojan.

if you have no programs running and your virus scanner is turned off, you are infected. if your virus scanner is turned on and it is sucking up your CPU, you are infected. to see what the fuss is about, press these buttons:

this will bring up another window that manages your programs and stuff that are running. you can click on the tabs and look at what is using up your CPU power. try to 'end process' or something and see what happens.

also, we need a little more info when you come back. and tell us what kind of Dell you have. processor? RAM? etc?

 

To be honest I cant be bothered to do a click by click account of how you do it but get iunto the properties of whichever media player you are using and set the read buffer to 30 seconds that will sort you out also you will need at least 384meg of ram these days.

No seriously just set your read buffer to 30 seconds

 

If all else fails install Linux. Like Ubuntu or some other distro that is user friendly for Linux newbies. Mplayer runs Windows Media files just fine and you won't have the problems. I posted a walkthrough for Ubuntu a while back. I am sure its in the archives. It is even easier these days. The newest release installs so easy Anyone can do it.

Peace, Cricket

 

Sounds like a ram issue to me. Chances are that WMP is eating out whatever ram you have left over. Add ram, or atleast increase your pagefile to cover the stagnant programs. You could try a less memory extensive program like Winamp, and see if your problem goes away.

 

dude, sounds like you need more memory so you can play media and keep your virus. memory doesnt remove malware.

 

Why don't you try to do a malware scan and system clean up important is that you disconnect from the internet before you scan....

 

Sounds like a windows problem to me. I've had to happen to me, windows will start skipping for like 10 minutes and then it'll go away. Windows sucks.