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WMP problem.

Terry · 2007-02-01 10:02:02

So I'm using windows media player and browsing at the same time. any time i scroll down the page, WMP starts playing like a broken record (or a scratched CD for you kids out there). It has happened before, but was fine yesterday. I closed all unneccessary processes, rebooted and so forth and that hasn't worked. I also set…

01-02-2007 10:02am

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Terry

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So I'm using windows media player and browsing at the same time. any time i scroll down the page, WMP starts playing like a broken record (or a scratched CD for you kids out there). It has happened before, but was fine yesterday.
I closed all unneccessary processes, rebooted and so forth and that hasn't worked. I also set the process to high priority. still no joy.
XP, 900mhz, 512 RAM.
any suggestions?

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#2 01-02-2007 10:23am

L31mr0d

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is your mouse wireless?

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#3 01-02-2007 10:34am

Terry

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No.
The PC is old and put together from salvaged bits of old broken PC's, but it normally works fine.

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#4 20-03-2007 10:02pm

finbarr

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Having the same problem here. Sounds like a dirty CD head especially when trying to open a new application it can completely stall a song. Any advice???

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