Hey. I don't know if I missed something, but I didn't read anyone complaining about Windows 10 or regretting they had installed it. I made the original post because I was having problems with load times of media players and wondered if anyone with similar experiences (which I have read about in the past) had suggestions.
Your suggestion of doing a system backup and piece-by-piece reinstall is certainly effective, but in my case it's probably not one of the first things I would try, simply because of the time and effort consumed. There's often a simple fix that can be applied within programme. Although I wasn't as diligent about documenting this as I could have been, I seem to have solved the problem, either by preventing Winamp's queue from reloading at programme start or by uninstalling a couple of plugins that, although they were a part of the programme before and didn't seem to be causing problems, also didn't seem to serve any necessary purpose on my machine. Thanks for the thoughts on cCleaner...I'll concede it may have uses beyond the less-than-desirable regstry cleaning feature. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: August 18, 2018 6:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [all-audio] Windows 10 and winamp, and possibly other media players as well I can only shake my head at all this. I’ve been using Windows 10 for what.. 3 years now? I heard all those dooms dayers say that I’d regret installing Windows 10, everything would slow to a crawl etc but thankfully quite the reverse is true here for all my Windows PC machines which are running 10. I don’t use Winamp but I do use VLC and its like lightning when it comes to loading and changing files even on the Nuc machine which doesn’t have a lot of power. The only real way to find out what’s going on is to double-down and do some really good troubleshooting. The first thing I’d do if such things were happening here would be to backup my system, do a clean install and gradually reinstall from the backup you have or install original pieces of software one by one and note any difference in performance that occurs when each new piece of software is installed. Of course if you had Rollback RX installed on your system then this process of elimination would be speed up considerably as you could “Rollback” in time literally. Registry cleaners? Well people do and people don’t use them, I give them a miss as they’re usually more trouble than they’re worth. Cleaner has been mentioned and that’s dead useful for cleaning up redundant files etc but I just don’t use the Registry cleaner. > On 18 Aug 2018, at 6:14 pm, Brian Olesen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, CCleaner. > > Brian > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [email protected] <[email protected]> På vegne af JM Casey > Sendt: 17. august 2018 21:32 > Til: [email protected] > Emne: [all-audio] Windows 10 and winamp, and possibly other media > players as well > > Hey folks. > > > > I'm running Windows 10 1803. > > > > I don't know precisely that these two issues are related, but a while > ago I downloaded VLC 64-bit, version 3.0. I was pretty impressed right > away with how fast it loaded. Well, a few weeks later, I wasn't so > impressed as the program was taking something over 30 seconds to load > every time and come up with the main screen. This happened whether I > ran the programme from the search box, run box, or clicked on a video > using file explorer. But it eventually did come up, so it wasn't a big > deal. Now recently, VLC issued an update, which I installed. The load > time went back to normal (iE, less than five seconds or so) and > everything was fine. > > > > But now, Winamp is taking forever to load! Longer than VLC did when it > had its little hitch, whatever it was. I estimate that sometimes, > between calling the programme (again, using any of the principal > methods), and getting audio and/or the main window, there's as much as > a two minute delay. > Once the window's up, everything does seem to work normally as it > should, but I'm really curious as to what could be causing this. I > have a feeling that reinstalling the programme will fix the issue, but > I still want to know if anyone has any ideas or has noticed this > happening sometimes with programmes in Windows 10. > > > > > > > > > > > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1196): https://groups.io/g/all-audio/message/1196 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/24627529/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/all-audio/leave/1074140/405281159/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
