iTunes Clipping

I have a friend I have been trying to help becuase his laptop virtually
stopped! We got rid of most things and found that Norton GoBack was the cause
of most of his problems. He is now down to the bare bones of the necessary
programs and loves to play iTunes through his Bose. He is having clipping
problems for no reason and I copy his latest mail to me for you to give me
any thoughts? He is not on line when all this is happening. Thanks

I’m typing this listening to iTunes and watching the performance of the CPU
and the pagefile usage at the same time trying to see some correlation
between the clipping and the usage. It’s the same old story though. It clips
like hell during the opening of Outlook and keeps clipping for a short while
‘til it settles down. Pagefile usage went up from about 250 to 316 and CPU
usage went up to briefly 75% and it was still clipping down to about 45%
usage. When I opened your last e-mail to reply the CPU usage went up briefly
to around 48% but it didn’t clip and now I’m typing, the CPU is running at 5
– 12% and it’s not clipping. Yesterday evening with just iTunes running and
nothing else and no-one going near the laptop it would play perfectly for a
while then clip badly for a while and then be alright again. As I type it’s
been fine for a minute or two and now for some reason the CPU usage shot up
to 44% and it started clipping badly and now it’s back down to about 10-15%
and it’s continuously clipping and I‘ll have to turn it off if it doesn’t
settle. It really is mystifying but looking at all the logs/events/ graphs
etc I can find no evidence that it runs out of memory as there always seems
to be spare physical, and virtual memory nor is the processor running flat
out. I’ve been through every possible setting I can find and set everything
to “performance� rather than view, etc where possible and I’ve currently got
a screen that looks like it did in the old days of Windows 3.5 at work, it’s
quite nostalgic.

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"Charlie3110" <Charlie3110@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news7FEC7BE-1283-420D-94EE-DAC1225DDB14@microsoft.com...
:I have a friend I have been trying to help becuase his laptop virtually
: stopped! We got rid of most things and found that Norton GoBack was the
cause
: of most of his problems. He is now down to the bare bones of the necessary
: programs and loves to play iTunes through his Bose. He is having clipping
: problems for no reason and I copy his latest mail to me for you to give me
: any thoughts? He is not on line when all this is happening. Thanks
:
: I'm typing this listening to iTunes and watching the performance of the
CPU
: and the pagefile usage at the same time trying to see some correlation
: between the clipping and the usage. It's the same old story though. It
clips
: like hell during the opening of Outlook and keeps clipping for a short
while
: 'til it settles down. Pagefile usage went up from about 250 to 316 and CPU
: usage went up to briefly 75% and it was still clipping down to about 45%
: usage. When I opened your last e-mail to reply the CPU usage went up
briefly
: to around 48% but it didn't clip and now I'm typing, the CPU is running at
5
: - 12% and it's not clipping. Yesterday evening with just iTunes running
and
: nothing else and no-one going near the laptop it would play perfectly for
a
: while then clip badly for a while and then be alright again. As I type it's
: been fine for a minute or two and now for some reason the CPU usage shot
up
: to 44% and it started clipping badly and now it's back down to about
10-15%
: and it's continuously clipping and I'll have to turn it off if it doesn't
: settle. It really is mystifying but looking at all the logs/events/ graphs
: etc I can find no evidence that it runs out of memory as there always
seems
: to be spare physical, and virtual memory nor is the processor running flat
: out. I've been through every possible setting I can find and set
everything
: to "performance" rather than view, etc where possible and I've currently
got
: a screen that looks like it did in the old days of Windows 3.5 at work, it's
: quite nostalgic.

Hi Tom I am assuming that you are passing me on to the Apple site as you
think it is not a Windows problem? He has reloaded the latest iTunes and has
the same problem. All used to be well without clipping and I thought it might
be a RAM problem or something like that but if you are telling me or making
me assume that you are telling me, as you have just put the Apple link
without comment that you are not intersted then I apologies for wasting your
time.
Charlie

"Tom [Pepper] Willett" wrote:

> http://discussions.apple.com/categor...categoryID=149
>
> "Charlie3110" <Charlie3110@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news7FEC7BE-1283-420D-94EE-DAC1225DDB14@microsoft.com...
> :I have a friend I have been trying to help becuase his laptop virtually
> : stopped! We got rid of most things and found that Norton GoBack was the
> cause
> : of most of his problems. He is now down to the bare bones of the necessary
> : programs and loves to play iTunes through his Bose. He is having clipping
> : problems for no reason and I copy his latest mail to me for you to give me
> : any thoughts? He is not on line when all this is happening. Thanks
> :
> : I'm typing this listening to iTunes and watching the performance of the
> CPU
> : and the pagefile usage at the same time trying to see some correlation
> : between the clipping and the usage. It's the same old story though. It
> clips
> : like hell during the opening of Outlook and keeps clipping for a short
> while
> : 'til it settles down. Pagefile usage went up from about 250 to 316 and CPU
> : usage went up to briefly 75% and it was still clipping down to about 45%
> : usage. When I opened your last e-mail to reply the CPU usage went up
> briefly
> : to around 48% but it didn't clip and now I'm typing, the CPU is running at
> 5
> : - 12% and it's not clipping. Yesterday evening with just iTunes running
> and
> : nothing else and no-one going near the laptop it would play perfectly for
> a
> : while then clip badly for a while and then be alright again. As I type it's
> : been fine for a minute or two and now for some reason the CPU usage shot
> up
> : to 44% and it started clipping badly and now it's back down to about
> 10-15%
> : and it's continuously clipping and I'll have to turn it off if it doesn't
> : settle. It really is mystifying but looking at all the logs/events/ graphs
> : etc I can find no evidence that it runs out of memory as there always
> seems
> : to be spare physical, and virtual memory nor is the processor running flat
> : out. I've been through every possible setting I can find and set
> everything
> : to "performance" rather than view, etc where possible and I've currently
> got
> : a screen that looks like it did in the old days of Windows 3.5 at work, it's
> : quite nostalgic.
>
>
>

I think it is more that iTunes is a Apple program for Windows. Apple.com
hosts user forums on iTunes for Windows and of course has update links as
well.

"Charlie3110" <Charlie3110@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:53F52A39-AC87-4490-BAF6-93AA42B3BD55@microsoft.com...
> Hi Tom I am assuming that you are passing me on to the Apple site as you
> think it is not a Windows problem? He has reloaded the latest iTunes and
> has
> the same problem. All used to be well without clipping and I thought it
> might
> be a RAM problem or something like that but if you are telling me or
> making
> me assume that you are telling me, as you have just put the Apple link
> without comment that you are not intersted then I apologies for wasting
> your
> time.
> Charlie
>
> "Tom [Pepper] Willett" wrote:
>
>> http://discussions.apple.com/categor...categoryID=149
>>
>> "Charlie3110" <Charlie3110@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news7FEC7BE-1283-420D-94EE-DAC1225DDB14@microsoft.com...
>> :I have a friend I have been trying to help becuase his laptop virtually
>> : stopped! We got rid of most things and found that Norton GoBack was the
>> cause
>> : of most of his problems. He is now down to the bare bones of the
>> necessary
>> : programs and loves to play iTunes through his Bose. He is having
>> clipping
>> : problems for no reason and I copy his latest mail to me for you to give
>> me
>> : any thoughts? He is not on line when all this is happening. Thanks
>> :
>> : I'm typing this listening to iTunes and watching the performance of the
>> CPU
>> : and the pagefile usage at the same time trying to see some correlation
>> : between the clipping and the usage. It's the same old story though. It
>> clips
>> : like hell during the opening of Outlook and keeps clipping for a short
>> while
>> : 'til it settles down. Pagefile usage went up from about 250 to 316 and
>> CPU
>> : usage went up to briefly 75% and it was still clipping down to about
>> 45%
>> : usage. When I opened your last e-mail to reply the CPU usage went up
>> briefly
>> : to around 48% but it didn't clip and now I'm typing, the CPU is running
>> at
>> 5
>> : - 12% and it's not clipping. Yesterday evening with just iTunes running
>> and
>> : nothing else and no-one going near the laptop it would play perfectly
>> for
>> a
>> : while then clip badly for a while and then be alright again. As I type
>> it's
>> : been fine for a minute or two and now for some reason the CPU usage
>> shot
>> up
>> : to 44% and it started clipping badly and now it's back down to about
>> 10-15%
>> : and it's continuously clipping and I'll have to turn it off if it
>> doesn't
>> : settle. It really is mystifying but looking at all the logs/events/
>> graphs
>> : etc I can find no evidence that it runs out of memory as there always
>> seems
>> : to be spare physical, and virtual memory nor is the processor running
>> flat
>> : out. I've been through every possible setting I can find and set
>> everything
>> : to "performance" rather than view, etc where possible and I've
>> currently
>> got
>> : a screen that looks like it did in the old days of Windows 3.5 at work,
>> it's
>> : quite nostalgic.
>>
>>
>>