PC tech help needed

[Lawless One]

so iv a prob with my PC and cant figure it out, its working grand till i open my media player and then its like all processing power goes into media player. iv scanned my pc for viruses, reinstalled media player and done disk check on it and its still the same. i could have 4/5 programes going at once and its grand but as soon as i turn my media player on even if its on its own my pc just stops and goes UNBELIEVABLE SLOW any ideas?

ps running on xp home edition

[Lawless One]

i got 1gb DDR ram and 80gb HDD but 400 external where all my music is

[Juliette]

You upgraded to the latest edition of Media Player? That'll kill you on low-end machines..

[renegadze]

it's probably something to do with windows constantly indexing your "My Folders" or whereever you download your music to

Under WMP look for an option called Monitored Folders, and see what it is monitoring, you can either try to stop it monitoring this or move out all the day from this folder so it's not looking at it all the time

[GOLDEN WING]

u prob haven't Defragmented ur pc yet meaning all ur files are scattered and by defragmenting it put all files in order giving u more memory (allowing pc to go faster)

[Lawless One]

u prob haven't Defragmented ur pc yet meaning all ur files are scattered and by defragmenting it put all files in order giving u more memory (allowing pc to go faster)

i have iv defraged both drives

it's probably something to do with windows constantly indexing your "My Folders" or whereever you download your music to

Under WMP look for an option called Monitored Folders, and see what it is monitoring, you can either try to stop it monitoring this or move out all the day from this folder so it's not looking at it all the time

ill try this thank you

:-k You upgraded to the latest edition of Media Player? That'll kill you on low-end machines..

i dont member downloading any updates for it but ill look into this aswell

[Atomos]

Which version of Windows Media are you using?

I downgraded mine to WMP 9 or 10 or something cos 11 gave me a resource hogging issue too

[KnowLedge]

sometimes media player **Filtered** up really bad.

use VLC. and if the problem continues.. then reinstall xpppppppppppppp

[Atomos]

sometimes media player **Filtered** up really bad.

use VLC. and if the problem continues.. then reinstall xpppppppppppppp

Apparently you sorta have to reinstall xp every 9-12months lol or is that 12-24...

Well anyway yeah, VLC is good but it doesn't have the same library features of WMP

[GOLDEN WING]

that when u make a folder called music and u just make extra folders in it

for ur music files

its much beter than WMP in every way

[KnowLedge]

sometimes media player **Filtered** up really bad.

use VLC. and if the problem continues.. then reinstall xpppppppppppppp

Apparently you sorta have to reinstall xp every 9-12months lol or is that 12-24...

Well anyway yeah, VLC is good but it doesn't have the same library features of WMP

i have to reinstal xp every 7 months or so.. this is my longest.. im in the 5th month i believe.
last did it in december. ive gotten so used to it, that its no problem

[Atomos]

Anyone tried WinAmp?

[Quina Quen]

Anyone tried WinAmp?

WinAmp is excellent. Has a nifty little plugin for all the iPod/iPhone noobs out there too.

[JolietJake]

I use RealPlayer; I don't have a problem with it very often

[~[ Greased Gerbil ]~]

iTunes. Is awesome.

Use VLC for video.