If i launch WMP and play some music, after a few minutes of playing my comuter slows right down and almost crashes. It takes a few minutes for task manager to come up for me to close it. I have cleared all cookies, temp files, recycle bin and scanned my computer but none of that works.
I have about 80GB of music but havnt added much recently. I also have 100GB free.
Any idea's?

I had that initially with limewire after I had downloaded music and then tried to listen to it, don't know if it's the same thing but the machine just cycled the hard drive (like it was continually accessing it) everything just grinding to a halt. It's gone away now, don't know why.

[Edited on 29/2/08 by Mr Whippy]

Thats it, just sound like its searching.

[Edited on 29-2-08 by speedyxjs]

Thinking about it, it went away when I accidentally uninstalled lime wire and had to download it again which didn't take long. Don't know if that applies to what you’re using though. Yeah the hard drive was whirring away making a ticking noise and even trying to bring up task manager took forever. Never crashed just became unusable.

[Edited on 29/2/08 by Mr Whippy]

is there any way to do that with wmp?

Its alright, i didnt realise you could uninstall it through add remove progs

how about reinstalling it from a site like this -

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en&qstechnology=

and then rebooting, hopefully it might sort it out. I'm no computer expert, but I'd just reinstall problem software.

Sounds to me like a trojan...

You could do worse than doing an online virus/trojan scan.... HERE


Though WMP is CPU intensive and personally I'd dump it... Winamp is quite good!
ATB - Steve

[Edited on 29-2-08 by Hellfire]

why don't you try playing the files with something else and see if it still happens


winamp's free and only take a min to download and install http://www.winamp.com/

I stuck all my music on an external drive,just turn it on when I want to listen to music,works really well.

Iv uninstalled wmp which has put it back to the old version (the one i prefer) so i just need to add files and see how it goes

do you have AVG on your machine, it's free and much better than norton which missed a who host of Trojan viruses on my drive. I do a scan of my limewire shared folder once I've downloaded stuff to check for viruses as it does find them. It can even check zipped files like downloaded programs before you try and install anything. I recently got paintshop pro from limewire but out of about 5 programs I downloaded only one was genuine and all the rest were viruses, some called Trojan Dropper which sounded well dodgy

[Edited on 29/2/08 by Mr Whippy]

I had the free AVG but acidently uninstalled it after about a year and a half and now when i download it again ats only free for 30 days

Try typing into google AVG free.
There's a demo version of the full program (which you've got) but there's a free version as well....

I've had mine installed for much more than 30 days and I haven't had to pay a penny

Another vote for Winamp here, I've used it for years. If you do decide to use it, run the MilkDrop visualisation ... I can sit and watch that for ages

1) WMP is surprisingly slow with the newer versions - particulary if you are also surfing
2) I think Winamp is a bit quicker
3) I've also had issues with Limewire
4) Disable WMP visualisations to run quicker