I have noticed that when playing music my computer keeps skipping the music like its to busy to handle the music (it happens in all media players). Then I get system lag were it takes ages to open a file or program.

I have tried:

• Scanning for adware, scanning for viruses.
  
• Defragmenting  (stops at 1% and won’t move on) (running in safe mode).
  
• Clearing out temp Internet files other things like disk cleanup.

The Windows defragger requires at least 15-20% free disk space IIRC. I think Norton has one that can work with less, but other than that, I don't know.

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Originally posted by raceprouk

The Windows defragger requires at least 15-20%

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Let's see... 20% of 40GB is 8GB... you have 20.6GB free...

Could it be to anything to do with your Sound Card?
Try getting the latest updates for it.

What OS are you running in which specs?

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Originally posted by johny
What OS are you running in which specs?

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I've got Nvidea Geforce and i've had problems with it. But when I updated it, it seemed to be ok. So maby you should...?

ok, Firefox keeps crashing when loading websites and the lag and skipping music is still happing I have posted a screenshot of the performace tab in task manger could someone tell me if everything looks ok?

thanks

You seem to have notihng wrong with your CPU I/O, and your PF usage is normal for the amount of RAM you have. You may have a process that is using large amounts of Memory when you play music, and try uninstaling firefox and play your music to see how your going, it could be that as it is corrupt. Norton System works 2005 is useful utility program, contain defrag and clean up, as well as disk doctor. Try to play music in safe mode if possible, jsut to see it is a process that is running on your computer doing it. If you need any more help pelase do not hesitate to ask me for furthur help. Goodluck and hope this helps you.

thanks, here's a screenshot of the process tab when I'm listing to music and firefox is open. Could someone tell if everything looks ok, I'm sorry about this but thanks .

A quick glance i could not see any threats in their. Will look at it more extensivley tomorrow for you chris100. Hope i will be able to help you!

Thanks for the reply, it seems explorer.exe keeps crashing and restarting I think the Nvidia graphic card drivers are conflicting with something. cashing all this werid problems.

Could be, try lowering the hardware acceleration on your graphics driver by going to: Right click desktop->Properties->Settings tab->Advanced->Troubleshoot-> and just lower the acceleration down a bit and see what happens. goodluck, hope it helps you.

Thanks for the reply, I did a disk defragment using diskeeper and its reporting that the Mft usage is currently 90% and says the mft is likely to become fragmented its recommending I increase it, is it safe to increase?

Mft usage, i am sorry but i have forgotten, what that is, but i dont think you would have to increase it is it is already 90%, but it is up to you, though