Re: WMP10 and CPU usage
- From: "zachd [ms]" <zachd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:20:05 -0800
If you run a registry monitor on the system monitoring only wmplayer.exe -
what's WMP freaking out about?
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(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"BethP" <BethP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've seen this addressed in several posts, but none of the few proposed
> fixes
> have helped me out yet. I have MP10 installed on XPPro and use it to
> listen
> to music daily. The only plug-ins that I have (that I know of anyway) are
> Napster and the Messenger plug-in. It ran fine for a couple of months,
> but
> in the last month has taken to using all available CPU cycles. Like the
> other posters, CPU usage drops to near nothing if I click on anything in
> the
> MP application. Minimizing doesn't make any difference; I have the folder
> monitoring selections removed; I don't hit the internet for anything when
> listening to non-DRM music; and I don't have visualizations on when
> listening
> to music.
>
> The only thing that I can even loosely associate with the timeframe this
> started happening is that I had to install Real Player to pull some video
> from a web site. I don't recall which came first though- the Real install
> or
> the CPU problems. I have since uninstalled Real, though I have not
> scoured
> the Registry to see what sort of junk it left on my box.
>
> Has anyone out there had any luck with getting CPU usage under control if
> cleaning the "Monitor Folders" feature is not being used?
>
> Thanks,
> -bethp.
>
> (off to get another couple AAA batteries for my mp3 player in the mean
> time...)
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