Youtube won't play my full videos on my PC?

Question

I have a Dell Dimension PC with 2.8 ghz P4 processor and 256 MB of Ram, with a 40 gb Hard Drive. When I go to Youtube, videos will only load a little bit, and then stop and not load anymore, whether it be 5 minutes or 5 hours. I have Comcast Cable, but I do not think it is that because I also have an Acer
LAPTOP. I can play and watch videos on there just fine. It is 3 years old w/ 512 mb of ram and a 1.4 ghz centrino processor. I use it wirelessly and youtube videos on my laptop work fine but on my PC they don't.
What could be the problem.

PS I also have the latest java updates and the adobe flash9 player for firefox installed.

Answer 1

You say the computer is three years old with 40 gigs of hard drive. It may be you are running out of space on your hard drive. Videos need a lot of room to be able to play on a computer, even the ones which are only temporarily on your drive. When we visit a website our browser downloads that site and places it in our Internet Temp cache, which can fill up quickly if we are viewing videos on a regular basis. While it is streamed, it is still placed in the temp cache. Try deleting your internet cache by going to Internet Options and on the General Tab click Delete Files under Temporary Internet Files. Then if you still have problems you may need to make more room on your drive. You can do this with a great little tool which is free called CCleaner. You can go and check it out at:

http://www.cnet.com/downloads

At the top of the page there is a search box. Put in ccleaner and click search or go or whatever words used to initiate the search. A page will come up, scroll down it and find the entry for ccleaner and click on it. This will bring you to the downloads page for this utility. Check out the desription and the user reviews, you will find many people are using this tool and just love it. I know I do and I have now been using it over a year.

It is also a Registry cleanup tool, a Startup manager tool, a Cookie manager tool, and a Software Removal tool which works much better than the Add/Remove applet provided by Windows. It is a vey small application and take up hardly any room nor does it require much processor when running. I highly reccomed it. First use it to clean out your hard drive of files you no longer need but which are on the drive cluttering it up. Make sure you include empty recycle bin, or everything in there is still on your hard drive taking up room. If you think there is something in the recycle bin you want to keep, just go in and take it out.

Good luck and I hope you get this fixed soon. Have a nice day.