Well incase anyone is wondering, that is not normal behaviour for WMP. It's
using 35mb right now, playing one of my 12,000 songs with 0-2% cpu usage. it
is a bit sluggish organising and sorting alpabetically by song takes a good
30 seconds, and whats worse - (is anyone else getting this?) i have to drop
items into the now playing window SEVERAL times because it doesn't add
properly the first 1 or 2 times (the list just jumps randomly)

"herm" wrote:

> I have the same problems any solutions?
>
>
> "kardoin" wrote:
>
> > Agree!!! I'm running Windows XP Pro sp2 with Mindows Media Player
> > 10.00.00.3646 and in task manager it is usually using more than 50% of CPU -
> > "Mem Usage".
> >
> > I deleted the folders for WM to "monitor", under Tools, Options, Library and
> > it has made it a little faster, but it still starts up really slow, plays the
> > music normal, but runs slowly if I run any other program or task while
> > playing music, and while navigating in WindowsMediaPlayer.
> > I do have a large music library, but since it's not monitoring my folders or
> > anything, and I've tried just playing from playlists, it shouldn't be running
> > this slow.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated!! or recommendation of another media
> > player!!
> >
> > Thanks and good luck to all.
> >
> >
> > "Ottoman" wrote:
> >
> > > My whole system slows down too. It doesn't happen when system is just booted
> > > up but if it been on for 10 mins or more and i try an play either audio or
> > > video then the whole system slows down to snail pace. Task manager says wmp
> > > is only prog using resources at 99%.
> > >
> > > This sounds like a common problem which lots of people are hitting. Anyone
> > > any advice?
> > >
> > > "Mike M." wrote:
> > >
> > > > There were a couple of posts last week indicating the problem might be that
> > > > WMP is monitoring certain folders for new media files. If you have lots of
> > > > files in those folders it takes a long time to do anything. You might want
> > > > to serach google groups for those posts.
> > > >
> > > > "AllyNicsMommy" <AllyNicsMommy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:84B245E4-27A8-43E8-B46A-1BB20F2E46D5@microsoft.com...
> > > > > Yeah My WM10 sucks. It is so slow doing anything. It takes like 5 mins
> > > > just
> > > > > to add a cd to my media collection and don't even try to burn a cd ... OMG
> > > > > I'm still sitting here (going on 30 mins) and it's not even done
> > > > inspecting
> > > > > and converting the first song. I'm going to try to go back to WM9. Didn't
> > > > > have these problems until I got that freakin upgrade. I mean the new
> > > > version
> > > > > can probably do some cool stuff.. but who has all day to sit and wait on
> > > > it
> > > > > to do the simplest of tasks? WM10 sucks!
> > > > >
> > > > > "Tom" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Ya mine is slow too. Mine gets slow when just scrolling through my
> > > > music,
> > > > > > also when add music to a playlist my mouse goes slow. Also when this
> > > > happens
> > > > > > it says that CPU usage is 99%. I have a pretty fast computer and this
> > > > didnt
> > > > > > happen on WMP 9. Please help!!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "Chris Lanier [MVP]" wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > While doing what? Playing a DVD? Playing an MP3? Do you have any
> > > > third
> > > > > > > party decoders installed?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > NOTE: Replies are to help benefit others in helping
> > > > > > > you and reproducing issues, not necessarily for me
> > > > > > > to get back to you.
> > > > > > > ---
> > > > > > > "Anon" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > > > > > news:a6db01c498c2$df8b1d10$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> > > > > > > > I'm having similar problems, CPU usage is 99% and 150MB
> > > > > > > > of RAM. Have you checked the process utilisation in task
> > > > > > > > manager?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >>-----Original Message-----
> > > > > > > >>Has anyone experienced the new media player to be
> > > > > > > > unbelievably slow!?!?!? I
> > > > > > > >>used to be able to run WMP9 very well.
> > > > > > > >>.
> > > > > > > >>
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