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Windows media player Using exactly 25 percent of CPU

briany · 2009-10-09 18:42:50

So the background: I was playing a game recently when the screen started flickering and the game quit to desktop and said that there was a bug found in the EXE for the game engine and then my monitor lost the signal from the graphics card so I was forced to do a 10 second power button shut down, not a lot else I could do.…

09-10-2009 6:42pm

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briany

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So the background: I was playing a game recently when the screen started flickering and the game quit to desktop and said that there was a bug found in the EXE for the game engine and then my monitor lost the signal from the graphics card so I was forced to do a 10 second power button shut down, not a lot else I could do.

When I restarted I noticed that my computer was behaving erratically for example, COMODO firewall was using about 75 percent of my cpu's runtime and this is on a 2.4 quad/4 GB RAM etc. so that shouldn't happen but I uninstalled that and reinstalled and it was back to normal. However Windows media player 11 has also become a sudden CPU hog climbing up to and staying at exactly 25 percent when I play a song and slowing down dramatically as a result when before it barely used anything. I've experienced the same problem intemittently with Winamp as well but there it seems to be dependent on what skin I use.

Everything else is running pretty much as normal. I ran a disk check and it only found one error which was fixed but still the same problem. I tried rolling back to WMP 10 but still the same result and the media player entry has dissapeared from the add/remove programs list so I can't roll back to nine, not that it would help if I could. So sorry for the long post, do any of you have any ideas on how I could resolve this issue?

Thanks,
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