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Thanks for incoming, gargouille, I've gone the Creative advised route and e-mailed their response team with details of what clearly is a bug - XP/SB drivers wise. Their auto responder gives me hope (that's some hope, not life-depends-on-it hope) of the promised human answer within 24 hours (!)...

Thanks guys, Black Viper full of knowledge as usual. However, even he did not mention a tweak in XP: right click the running app in Task Manager and you get the choice of prioritising it from normal>above normal>right up to realtime...coool. But my problem was not connected with internet...

I'm running 1.1 Celeron/382MBram/40+20HDD-720/XP on a newish shop-bought HP Pavilion. To play mp3s or wav files I use MediaPlayer8. Playback is generally good with the odd hiccup, using standard Windows drivers on cheapy SB 4.1 digital card. The cheapy SB card was purchased because it included a...

Attaching outboard MIDI devices, such as a musical keyboard or music sequencer, you run into the problem of all non-recent outboard gear having a DIN 5-pin plug and cable interconnect, whereas the MIDI IN to most (again non-recent, or at least low-end) sound cards is via the MIDI/gameport...

linney, you're not kidding - what a site! I'll finish reading it when I get the spare 3 hours! thanks, mate thregwort

Thanks Turkbear, I'll go poke around the newsgroups like you suggest. Yes, I did the system restore route - didn't work the magic I'm afraid, even though it uninstalled a couple of recent new apps on my machine. Thregwort

Upgraded from the Media Player supplied with Win XP and got the beta Media Player 9. Looks good, media library feature works/looks fine. Very happy with its performance until a couple weeks ago. Visualisations in normal or full screen disappeared although they continue to work in the minature...

Postscript: For what it's worth, having got the three disk XP set from HP support (FOC mailed same day) have done clean reinstall -[Stuff SP1 say I. Just apply this single crucial security patch] http://grc.com/xpdite/xpdite.htm

polymath5, Yeah, good for you, and you're the second to recommend Drive Image!! Super caution is obviosly the way to go here. Just clarify your *Then I removed everything from my and and the 'all users' starup folder, rebooted.* your what and? thregwort

OK, clownshoes - you have sympathy, hope your stuff was backed up. Well that's two - anybody else?

Hey, take it steady guys, from one who has suffered on your behalf. Deleting 'unecessary' stuff from XP, willy-nilly can produce unexpected and troublesome results on some machines (mine fer'instance - and at least a half-dozen other posters on the HP forums):o( Be VERY careful with Messenger -...

gargouille, The HP/XP recovery disc doesn't include the SP1, thankfully, so after install I'll just download the vital security patches and leave it at that (wait for SP1.1?). You build your own? Brave man!

Yeah, linney, done that. Got some good advice from the HP forum. Unfortunately the recovery CDs being mailed in super-quick response from HP support is going to reformat the drive. So I'll do a clean install of XP on a new drive and stick the old *dirty* drive in as a slave so I can rescue some...

Don't try this at home, kids. Specifically...on my HP Pavilion with XP Home pre-installed did the six hour download of SP1. Then what? Boot time slowed to snail's pace. Did the bootvis optimisation which just hung. Did the AdAware scan, got rid of lurking stuff. Still 2 minutes plus to boot. Ran...

Hendon, thanks for that. I got AdAware from Lavasoft (dot de not dot com) and it hoovered out a half dozen registry lurkers straight away. Result - even resource hogging graphics programs load like greased lightning. CorelDraw9 from double-click to ready in SIX seconds. On the non-plus side...

Just a note of caution regarding bootvis.exe (from MS website) - optimising the boot processes sounds great, but post service pack 1, this little program just freezes up, and then bootvis won't even scan anymore, insisting on having write privileges to the temp file (!). My guess is MS will put...

Having created a landscape, legal size, folding, four column, both sides printed, leaflet in Corel PhotoPaint 9, my customer was so pleased she decided to have the item commercially printed. I transferred it to CD and handed it in at the (traditional ink-based) print centre in the High Street...