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Re: MCE and "choppy" TV playback...



On a similar vein, I was hosting a network shared printer on my media
box under XP pro, and that was causing regular choppy playback.  Stopped
the shared printer and all was well.

Simon

Davey wrote:

> Are there any other services or apps. running that you don't need -
i.e.
> anti-virus.?
>
> I have a similar issue but with visual effects for audio running on a
> very
> slow old laptop. I stop some services (disk manager admin service,cd
> burning
> etc etc)  and stop internet traffic via the software firewall and all
is
> well - YMMV
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 11:47 PM
> Subject: [ukha_d] MCE and "choppy" TV playback...
>
>
> >
> > Anyone else using Windows MCE noticing that playback gets choppy
> after a
> > few
> > weeks?
> >
> > Quitting MCE and running disc defragmenter (even though it says
it's not
> > necessary) seems to have cured the problem every time I've had it
> happen
> > but
> > has anyone (maybe the Gigtek guys) got any ideas on how to get
round
> > having
> > to defrag the entire MCE machine every so often?
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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