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WMP always 100% processor usage
Name: Sam RM Date: March 2, 2004 at 05:01:11 Pacific OS: WnMe CPU/Ram: 833MHz/64MB
Comment:
Hi. Any time I load Windows Media Player 9, the processor usage jumps to 100% and stays there even if I close it.. I have always to restart in order to bring the processor usage back to normal to use my PC. Is this a problem?, how i can solve it?. If I do not restart, does that causes the processor to oveheat?. Thank you for your help Sam RM
Name: wawadave Date: March 2, 2004 at 09:00:12 Pacific
Reply:
hello more ram would help you lots with this. as your cpu is getting bottlenecked by lack of ram.and windows mediocure player is a ram heavy resource hog. but this will not cause your cpu to over heat.unless your fan on cpu quits but thats a whole other ball of wax. you may allso want to go through these in this link how to run m.e well version 5 http://www.burzurq.com/forum/trevtweak.html
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