Playing music on my PC

oneandonlyboy

Not had much to do with vista(A mac user)but any pc we buy we install at least 3gb of ram as vista loves memory might be worth looking at another 1gb of ram plus have you deleted your off-line files and cookies and history if thats not been deleted for a while might be slowing your surfing up

jpwjpw

Your computer shouldn't be that slow. More memory would help, but it could possibly be a failing/slightly corrupted hard disk.

Goto the start menu, click run and then type:

chkdsk c: /f

it'll ask you if you would like to check the disk when you reboot. Answer yes (press the Y key) to this and reboot, then wait for the scan to complete (upto 10min). This may fix your problem.

jpwjpw

Also uninstall any internet explorer toolbars you have installed.Try running internet explorer in no addons mode to see if its quicker:
Start->Run and type:
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -extoff

foreversomeday

Judi wrote: »

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

An exe file is a program which is running - most run in the background, like svchost which is a Windows process. Explorer is your operating system - never end this as it will remove the start bar and desktop until you restart (It tends to panic people!)

If you don't use msn messenger, you can end that. It is interesting that internet explorer seems to be running 2 separate processes. Does anyone know why that could be? I am a firefox user and don't even have IE 10 so can't check.

glidergirluk

Judi wrote: »

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

I would now click change below this number and in the next box change the number in the initail size box (you may have to put the radial button next to custom size) to say around the 1000 mark and click ok. You will go back to the previous box now and check that under processor scheduling the radial button is against programs and then the same for memory usage. Hope this helps.

jpwjpw

foreversomeday wrote: »

An exe file is a program which is running - most run in the background, like svchost which is a Windows process. Explorer is your operating system - never end this as it will remove the start bar and desktop until you restart (It tends to panic people!)

If you don't use msn messenger, you can end that. It is interesting that internet explorer seems to be running 2 separate processes. Does anyone know why that could be? I am a firefox user and don't even have IE 10 so can't check.

ie spawns a new process for each window open

glidergirluk

foreversomeday wrote: »

An exe file is a program which is running - most run in the background, like svchost which is a Windows process. Explorer is your operating system - never end this as it will remove the start bar and desktop until you restart (It tends to panic people!)

If you don't use msn messenger, you can end that. It is interesting that internet explorer seems to be running 2 separate processes. Does anyone know why that could be? I am a firefox user and don't even have IE 10 so can't check.

You can just google the name of any exe and it will tellyou what that process is for. HTH

weegie.geek

I'd make sure all the drivers for your hardware are up to date.

I'd also check to see if the hard drive is running in PIO or DMA mode. If there are read or write errors windows will drop the protocol down through the different flavours of DMA, right down to PIO, and drive reads/writes will get slower each time, and CPU usage will rise when reading or writing. It can really cripple a PC.

If it's running in PIO, do this and restart, see if that helps. Definitely do the drivers thing though.

It's not the fastest of PCs but it should handle browsing the web and playing music without grinding to a halt. I'd look into using winamp or something a bit less resource-hogging for the music. Windows media player is crap anyway, but it's overkill for music.

Same with IE, I'd change over to Firefox, I found that pages load much quicker in FF than IE, and it'll be easier on the RAM as well.

edit: that iexplor.exe thing got me wondering, and it appears to be a virus, unless you meant to type iexplore.exe.

You should probably give the thing a thorough going over with a virus checker and a spyware checker.

davmail

You need the VLC player,its small,but a great player,needs very little resources get it here:

http://www.videolan.org

This should sort you out.And it's FREE.
:T