Playing music on my PC

Legacy_user

Ok its bugging me now. If i play the music on my hard drive i might as well kiss goodbye using my pc for surfing and stuff because it more or less grinds to a halt.

Hubby says there's enough memory and theres plenty of room on the hard drive, i remove cookies and do maintenance on it on a daily basis so what could be the problem?

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

What program do you use to play music?

If you open up Task Manager (ctrl+alt+del) and click on the processes tab, what percentages show for running processes?

System

I use Windows Media Player. At present there are 29 processes running CPU usage 7%. Is that what you mean? Doesnt sound a lot but ive just rebooted the thing.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

So wmplayer.exe is using 7% and System Idle Process is at 93%?

System

Yes. Theres a couple of exe files in there (whatever an exe is:o ) but nothing really of significance.

Donnie

How memory IS installed? XP or Vista?

Press the Flying Windows key together with the Pause Break key.

System

Its amazing what you find when you expand the page:o :

iexplor.exe 123,512k
msnmsgr.exe 12,848k
explorer.exe 30,512
wmplayer.exe 28,428
svchost 33,50
iexplore.exe36,536

The rest of the processes are in single figures

System

XP is installed.

AMD Athlon XP2600
1.92 ghz
1.00Gb Ram

My pc is about 3 years old (or maybe older)

System

Its not keen on Facebook either........ soooooo slow

glidergirluk

Can you right click on your "my Computer" icon and then click properties. Then Click the advanced tab and where it says Performance click on the settings button, click the advanced tab again and let me know what the total paging file size is under virtual memory.

System

Took me ages to find it. I use the menu. 768mb. I aint playing music now though cause the kids are home.