I doubt the entries in the Startup tab of msconfig for Nero and Adobe had anything to do with your stuttering problems. I suspect they either put utilities in the system tray or sit resident in memory so that Adobe and Nero load more quickly. Although they may not be the cause of your stuttering problem, I usually don't have them startup automatically, since I don't load them that frequently, and I want to free up the little bit of memory they consume.
If AVG is actively scanning your system, that would generate a lot of IO activity, which is usually a pretty high priority task and could cause some stuttering. You say you have a fast system, but there could be other bottlenecks besides the processor. I know on my other system, I had some stuttering when Norton was running. I fixed it by updating my nVidia device drivers. Gary Petraccaro wrote: > Just checked MSConfig and found Nero and Adobe related items running on > startup. Unchecked both and the problem songs played fine. Then, rechecked > each and then both and the song still played fine. Oh, well. Now, I'm just > curious as to what's going on. > I'll keep your message and tinker with this some more. > Thanks. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Christopher Chaltain > To: PC audio discussion list. > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 7:26 PM > Subject: Re: Stuttering > > > Another thing to check is to run msconfig and look through the entries > in the Startup tab. There may be some entries in there that don't show > up in the system tray. > > You could also bring up Task Manager or some other process reporting > tool to see if there's a process that starts hogging the processor about > the same time you see the stuttering problems. > > Another thing that I do is to go into my sound themes and set a > relatively annocuous sound for process start and process end. If some > process is kicking off before the stuttering starts, you'll hear it kick > off. This will at least tell you if something is starting up that may > be using up a lot of processor cycles. > > Gary Petraccaro wrote: > > I'll check the drivers. I looked in the tray and disabled everything > except AVG. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Christopher Chaltain > > To: PC audio discussion list. > > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 6:04 PM > > Subject: Re: Stuttering > > > > > > I'm no expert, but do you have anything running at the same time, such > > as a backup utility or something that might be causing a lot of IO? > > What about device drivers? I know I had this problem with some older > > nVidia device drivers. > > > > Gary Petraccaro wrote: > > > I've got a fast system and am using Winamp 5.24. For some reason, > music is beginning to stutter when I play it. This has not happened before. > The running anti-virus is AVG. > > > I need some ideas. > > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists > we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Christopher > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. 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