Windows Media Player 11 Lagging

Hi All,

One of my laptops seems to have a bit of a problem. When trying to open any
music file, it can lag for up to two minutes, and when moving to the next
song, media player hangs and the hdd light is quite solid. Have tried obvious
things like defragging, but to no avail.

Cheers, Gavin

"Gavin" <Gavin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E3ED52A5-EAA9-412E-9E98-21008F9EF0A9@microsoft.com...
> Hi All,
>
> One of my laptops seems to have a bit of a problem. When trying to open
> any
> music file, it can lag for up to two minutes, and when moving to the next
> song, media player hangs and the hdd light is quite solid. Have tried
> obvious
> things like defragging, but to no avail.
>
> Cheers, Gavin
>

Too much running in the back ground ?

Cheers,
jerry

No, I still get the same issue with nothing else running. All my background
processes are relatively normal, and nothing eating too much resources.

"orange" wrote:

>
> "Gavin" <Gavin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E3ED52A5-EAA9-412E-9E98-21008F9EF0A9@microsoft.com...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > One of my laptops seems to have a bit of a problem. When trying to open
> > any
> > music file, it can lag for up to two minutes, and when moving to the next
> > song, media player hangs and the hdd light is quite solid. Have tried
> > obvious
> > things like defragging, but to no avail.
> >
> > Cheers, Gavin
> >
>
> Too much running in the back ground ?
>
> Cheers,
> jerry
>
>
>

"Gavin" <Gavin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E0AD17D8-10AD-4772-8746-421E462D98BC@microsoft.com...
> No, I still get the same issue with nothing else running. All my
> background
> processes are relatively normal, and nothing eating too much resources.
>
> "orange" wrote:
>
>>
>> "Gavin" <Gavin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:E3ED52A5-EAA9-412E-9E98-21008F9EF0A9@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > One of my laptops seems to have a bit of a problem. When trying to open
>> > any
>> > music file, it can lag for up to two minutes, and when moving to the
>> > next
>> > song, media player hangs and the hdd light is quite solid. Have tried
>> > obvious
>> > things like defragging, but to no avail.
>> >
>> > Cheers, Gavin
>> >
>>
>> Too much running in the back ground ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> jerry
>>
>>
>>
>

Something is hogging resources.

Run your antivirus.

Turn off all non-essential services (google startup list or see here) :

http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html

or

http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php

Use this to see what's running (at boot up, services and ressources) :

http://codestuff.tripod.com/products_starter.html

Cheers,
Jerry