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Question

k dell xps gen 2 two gb's of ram 3.4 ht p4 chips and windows xp pro why is it when windows media player is running it stops this computer in its tracks cpu goes to 95 to 100% and every thing stops for wmp to work and half the time it crashs what is going on plz i need help
at my school i am the kid the tech teacher comes to for help and i cant fix this i have tryed every thing wmp 10 now 11 every thing i do does not help tryed to play just one song still maxs out every thing

i am useing wmp 11 its new and theres no skins on it
it is the lest you can have runing

no its only when wmp is running i can play any game battle field 2 cod 2 any thing no problem at all run wmp and it kills the computer every time

network master i have tryed seeing different files types it still does it. the only thing i can think of is that its ht and theres a bug but other then that every thing has been tryed

network master. even tryed in task manger closeing stuff and seeing if it helps it and it didnt

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/gotspeed1212/2.jpg
and http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/gotspeed1212/untitled.jpg
are screen shots of wmp running and right after it is shut down

Answer 1

Have you tried bringing up the performance meter (press control-shift-escape at the same time) and click on the processes tab, sort by CPU usage, and see if it is in fact the WMP process taking up 100% of the CPU? Have you looked at the percentage CPU when WMP is playing different types of files, like a WAV audio file versus a WMV versus an AVI? That might help shed some light on what's going on. Have you (on the perf meter screen) examined how much memory is in use and how many threads there are before and during WMP running? Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling WMP? Rebooted the PC into safe mode followed by a normal reboot? I assume you have proper virus and spyware protection installed and up to date and have run all of the appropriate scans? Also, run msconfig, go to the startup tab, and uncheck all the "extras" and do a normal reboot and try WMP again. Have you tried running your question past your English teacher? Ok, just kiddin on that last one but that was quite a run-on sentence. Hope this might help or give some ideas, hopefully you're not stuck reinstalling the entire PC.

[6/9/2006 11AM]: Sorry, the text in the images you posted isn't readable, but it looks like the memory usage is about the same and stays constant but the CPU is getting slammed when you start WMP. And I think you're saying it does this regardless of what kind of file you open, audio only or video, right? Hmmm. Start with a fresh reboot, then: In your Windows Task Manager, Performance tab, what do you show for handles, processes, threads before and after starting WMP? In the cases where the PC doesn't hang, does the CPU stay that way or drop to normal after you stop WMP? Almost seems like a bug. Any way you can back out, uninstall it, and reinstall WMP 9 or WMP 10 and try this again? Also, consider what recent patches, .NET upgrades, etc might have been installed (perhaps automatically) that you might backout and try this again. Can you reproduce this problem on another PC? That might lead to clues that this one might just need to be re-imaged. Finally, have you gone through the Microsoft knowledge base? You might also consider posting your issue on experts-exchange.

Answer 2

maybe keyboard shortcuts? There is normally a key called Function or F on "most" keyboards. Hold this down and look for the speaker keys up and down on the keyboard normally with the F1F2F3 buttons but might be elsewhere.

Answer 3

run this test [=full test] www.pcpitstop.com. it will probably tell you you have something running in the background eating all your resources up.

Answer 4

Could it be this buffer overflow error?