My home computer is playing up at the moment. When i start up (XP) it takes much longer to start up and then when the windows XP start up music plays it weird, sort of sounds like music when your batteries are flat in you walkman, distorted like. If i use media player and do a few other things, ie copy files and use the internet, the music again slows down. Have watched the task manager performance visual display and it seems like it is using up lots of the memory, which is really strange as i have 512 meg of ram and previous to this week have been able to have millions of applications open without anything slowing down. My guess is something is wrong with my memory on the computer. Any ideas, really don't want to do wipe out and start again reinstall of XP.
When's the last time you used the disk defragmenter? I did this a few weeks ago and saw a very noticeable speed up in all applications. I'm no computer guru though, just throwing out an idea.
My computer does the same thing (distort the music) when I play musicmatch jukebox. Someone please help.
On an unrelated note... For anyone that has the latest version of winamp, how the hell do I keep a song from "leading into" another one. It's like a soft lead into the next track. I've been scavenging winamp and I can't find out how to turn this **** off! Anyone know how to switch it off?
BGM, I haven't used Winamp in a while, but Winamp calls what you're talking about Crossfading. Look for that in the preferences/settings or there should be a toggle button on the skin with an X on it, if I remember correctly.
Thank you arkoe...I would have never known to look for "crossfading" if it weren't for you...God Bless...
So was mine ... so I busted out for a 2.4 GHz, 512 RAM, 120 Gig brand new desktop. Windows XP outdistances my old Windows 98. Sorry for your troubles Smeg... Let's all wear our Smeg T-shirts tomorrow.
Perhaps press CRTL-ALT-DEL to see if you have any funky unwanted apps running in the background that are eating up your memory?
Glad I could help BGM. Smeg, here are a couple of ideas to try: 1) Update your version of media player - I think the highest is 9 point something. 2) Run Clean Disk and defrag your computer. 3) Run Ad-Aware/Spybot. 4) Check the programs you have set to start when you turn on the computer, and disable the one's you don't need. 5) Update and run your virus scanner.
A lot of people like Spybot for some reason, but I really can't tell the difference between it and Ad-Aware.
right click on winamp go to "options" then "crossfader" that should turn it off. make sure its unchecked. with other skins you can change the amount of time you want for the crossover to happen in. the default skin kinda sucks. i use the MMD3. its the best one ive found so far. Brian
Well, I'll go ahead and toss out my own computer problems. At school I like to download and burn movies onto cd's so I can watch them later. Several of the movies skip in the same place whenever I play them, whether the computer's defragged or not. I don't know if it matters or not, but it often tends to skip during high action scenes, such as car chases. Do they shoot such scenes with more frames per second, which might cause me problems? I don't have all that much ram in my computer, only a little 128 meg chip. Would putting more ram in my computer help? I know it can't hurt, but was wondering if anyone thought that doing that would actually fix this problem. Or is it more likely that I just have had some bad burns, and that its the cd's themselves? Any suggestions?
Sorry but my expertise ends at the keyboard. Nevertheless, I <B>am</b> wearing my Smeggy T-shirt as promised.
What exactly does "defragging" do? Is it safe? Something's up with my computer, I can't really place my finger on it, but I wonder if "defragging it" would help...
http://www.gamespy.com/hardware/march02/defraggin/ This site explains it pretty well. Basically it moves files around on the hard drive to make it more efficient. It definately won't hurt your computer.
