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Windows Media Player

Apr 27, 2005 12:28AM PDT

I have someone who has Windows Media Player 10 on a Windows XP SP2 laptop with a 900MHZ Celeron, and 512MB of RAM. He has a very fast Earthlink cable service. I'm sorry, but that is all I know about his laptop. I totally understand if more info is needed.

When playing streaming audio two curios things happen. Firstly, WMP EATS his CPU. 100% CPU usage. Also, streaming audio plays fine for about an hour, and then starts to break up. If we restart WMP, the song begins at an earlier time. What has already been streamed starts playing again, so we have to wait to "catch up." Any suggestions?

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Yup. WMP eats all available CPU and RAM.
Apr 27, 2005 1:06AM PDT

How will you fix that one?

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Me?
Apr 27, 2005 2:07AM PDT

I'd go back to WMP-9.

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I know
Apr 27, 2005 3:08AM PDT

I have been trying to explain to this person that 9 was a little better, but he insists on WMP10. He'll have to live with it, then. That Celeron CPU he has ain't helping either.

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WMP 10
Apr 28, 2005 9:55AM PDT

I had problems with version 10 as well. I got rid of it. No trouble with #9.

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How did you get rid of WMP 10.0?
Apr 28, 2005 10:50AM PDT

I tried to uninstall WMP 10 and install 9.0 and it won't let me. I keep getting an error message that a newer version is installed and the 9.0 installation will shutdown. And yet, I don't find 10 installed on the computer. I have an HP notebook running XP SP2, Pentium 4 2.80 GHz, 768 MB RAM and all of the anti-malware programs recommended. I installed WMP 10 so long ago, there is no restore point to use.

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Have you tried...
Apr 28, 2005 1:32PM PDT

Disk Cleanup to remove any Temp or other left-over files?