media player/mouse slow down..help

Somebody save me from madness. When I am online a web page is taking a while
to download my cursor becomes slow, jerky and unresponsive. Also the
playback of files on Media Player (9) pauses or is repetetive.

Does anybody know why? Is it a problem with Internet Explorer, Media Player,
my mouse driver or just a memory problem.

Matthew

if you are using winXP try bringing up the task manager (ctrl-alt-del) and
look at the "processes" tab, and see what process is using the highest
percentage of CPU time when that problem occurs. I think you'll find
something that is using 99% or near it. Ignore "system idle process" though.
That one is normally at or near 99% routinely, and it's normal.

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"Matthew" <> wrote in message
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> Somebody save me from madness. When I am online a web page is taking a
while
> to download my cursor becomes slow, jerky and unresponsive. Also the
> playback of files on Media Player (9) pauses or is repetetive.
>
> Does anybody know why? Is it a problem with Internet Explorer, Media
Player,
> my mouse driver or just a memory problem.
>
>

Do you have a very slow processor? A software modem used on a PC
with a very slow processor may behave a you described.

Matthew wrote:

> Somebody save me from madness. When I am online a web page is taking a while
> to download my cursor becomes slow, jerky and unresponsive. Also the
> playback of files on Media Player (9) pauses or is repetetive.
>
> Does anybody know why? Is it a problem with Internet Explorer, Media Player,
> my mouse driver or just a memory problem.

I have the same problem and I have a 2100 athlon system and its road runner.
I checked the irq of the LAN cards and mouse and they are different also
when a page in loading slow ALL media players ( wmp winamp QuickTime real)
skip when playing mp3s

"JK" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Do you have a very slow processor? A software modem used on a PC
> with a very slow processor may behave a you described.
>
> Matthew wrote:
>
> > Somebody save me from madness. When I am online a web page is taking a
while
> > to download my cursor becomes slow, jerky and unresponsive. Also the
> > playback of files on Media Player (9) pauses or is repetetive.
> >
> > Does anybody know why? Is it a problem with Internet Explorer, Media
Player,
> > my mouse driver or just a memory problem.
>

Do you have plenty of ram and do you defragment your hard drive often, and
not let it get very full?

force wrote:

> I have the same problem and I have a 2100 athlon system and its road runner.
> I checked the irq of the LAN cards and mouse and they are different also
> when a page in loading slow ALL media players ( wmp winamp QuickTime real)
> skip when playing mp3s
>
> "JK" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > Do you have a very slow processor? A software modem used on a PC
> > with a very slow processor may behave a you described.
> >
> > Matthew wrote:
> >
> > > Somebody save me from madness. When I am online a web page is taking a
> while
> > > to download my cursor becomes slow, jerky and unresponsive. Also the
> > > playback of files on Media Player (9) pauses or is repetetive.
> > >
> > > Does anybody know why? Is it a problem with Internet Explorer, Media
> Player,
> > > my mouse driver or just a memory problem.
> >