Halting/Lagging

[Guest]

Over the past week or so I have started noticing that my computer will halt
for a few seconds. Sometimes it happens every minute or so, and sometimes
more or less or not at all. This happens no matter what or how many
applications I am running at the moment. I have up to date McAfee Viruscan,
and it can't find anything. Additionally, I have been having problems
shutting down XP; it gives me a message saying that ShellConHiddenWindow
isn't responding. I'm not sure if these two things are connected or not.
I'm fairly competent using Windows, but I can't find anything on these
problems. I've used a defragger, so that can't be the problem either. Any
help would be much appreciated.

 

[Roberto]

Courteously of Malke MVP

This has to do with MusicMatch Jukebox (a legitimate program) processes
starting with Windows.
Go to Start>Run and type (without quotes) "msconfig" [enter]. This
brings up the System Configuration Utility. Look on the Startup tab and
find all entries relating to MusciMatch. Uncheck the boxes next to the
names, Apply and OK out. You don't need to restart immediately, but the
next time you do you'll get a dialog saying you've used the Utility.
Just tick the box that says in effect, "don't bother me about this
again".

rgds
Roberto

 

[Plato]

use msconfig to tweak out your problem.

Over the past week or so I have started noticing that my computer will halt
for a few seconds. Sometimes it happens every minute or so, and sometimes
more or less or not at all. This happens no matter what or how many
applications I am running at the moment. I have up to date McAfee Viruscan,
and it can't find anything. Additionally, I have been having problems
shutting down XP; it gives me a message saying that ShellConHiddenWindow
isn't responding. I'm not sure if these two things are connected or not.
I'm fairly competent using Windows, but I can't find anything on these
problems. I've used a defragger, so that can't be the problem either. Any
help would be much appreciated.