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post #1 of 7
9/27/03 at 2:10pm
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Whenever I watch a movie in windows media player or any other video playing program, my computer always freezes up and the movie stops playing for a while and skips ahead like 20-30 seconds. Does anyone know why this happens? I think i might have a lot of programs running but i consistently have over 300 mb of ram free. Should I defragment my c:? I never thought I'd get such a problem with my labtop which is over 2ghz and 512 mb ram. Any help would be great. Thanks.
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post #2 of 7
9/27/03 at 4:16pm
Make sure you have the latest divx codecs. Could be part of the problem that you're having. Also go to RUN-MSCONFIG-STARTUP- and disable as many of your startup programs as possible, they are taking resources that you need for Win media player.
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post #3 of 7
9/27/03 at 9:44pm
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Also go to RUN-MSCONFIG-STARTUP- and disable as many of your startup programs as possible, they are taking resources that you need for Win media player.


yea, i did that but that makes all my programs load a lot slower. for example, it takes a while for my outlook express to start up as well as internet explorer and aim. I disabled only the ones that I didn't need too.
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post #4 of 7
9/27/03 at 10:12pm
That sounds like a sound card driver issue, particularly if it does it on known good avi's. If you switched sound cards or have two installed it can mess up the timing (synch) of audio to video. Multiple video card registry entries can do it too. Like if you install a new driver without un-installing the old one first. This may be more likely considerng it's a laptop.

Edit...
I would run defrag, and make sure that 18-20% of your hard drive is free space...or that can cause a performance hit too.
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post #5 of 7
9/28/03 at 10:07am
If you have disabled MS messenger you will get those slowdowns.
This can be fixed by doing this in regedit:

Fix Outlook Express slowdown when MSN Messenger is disabled

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID]
Find the key {FB7199AB-79BF-11d2-8D94-0000F875C541} and under it
select the folder IniProcServer32.
In the right panel of regedit double-click on the (Default) entry
at the top and completely delete the value data it contains.
Now do the same for the LocalServer32 folder as well.
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post #6 of 7
9/28/03 at 1:25pm
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID]
Find the key {FB7199AB-79BF-11d2-8D94-0000F875C541} and under it
select the folder IniProcServer32.
In the right panel of regedit double-click on the (Default) entry
at the top and completely delete the value data it contains.
Now do the same for the LocalServer32 folder as well.

hey aussie,
I looked for the key {FB7199AB-79BF-11d2-8D94-0000F875C541} and was unable to find it. Is that correct? And also, what exactly does this do. I really don't know too much about computers and I just want to make sure what it does before I go ahead and do it. Thanks
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post #7 of 7
9/29/03 at 6:20am
I suppose I should have asked you which version of the operating system you were using? It should be present in XP Pro. I am not sure about XP Home.

The particular key relates to the startup of MS messenger. If you have disabled messenger, the registry still contains a link to the process that gets run by other programs (like Outlook). Because it is not there, Outlook has to wait until the lookup times out. By removing the registry entry there is no lookup delay.
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