Media Center Slows the longer its on 1

[TheAceMan1]

Howdy All . . .

Have the following system:
Microsoft® Windows Vista Home Premium
HP-Pavilion x64-based PC
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHz, 2667 Mhz, 4 Core(s)

While watching cable tv thru [blue]Media Center[/blue], I've noticed the longer [blue]Media Center[/blue] is open the longer it takes to switch channels on the cable box. Although I can reset this time back to normal by closing/re-opening [blue]Media Center[/blue], it gets to be a pain.

Has anyone had this problem or any info on correcting it?

See Ya! . . . . . .

Be sure to see thread181-473997 [blue]Worthy Reading![/blue]
Also faq181-2886 [blue]Worthy Reading![/blue]

 

[linney]

Whereas I don't have much use for Windows Media Center and therefor don't use it myself see if anything here is of use to you.

How much RAM do you have?

When it starts to slow down can you get any clues from the Task Manager?

Windows Vista's Task Manager: The harder-to-detect changes

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6161050.html

How to repair the operating system and how to restore the operating system configuration to an earlier point in time in Windows Vista (or 7)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936212/#appliesto

How to analyze the log file entries that the Microsoft Windows Resource Checker (SFC.exe) program generates in Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928228#appliesto

How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/929135

950093 How to use the System Configuration utility to troubleshoot configuration errors in Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;950093

See if this tool is suitable for Vista.

MCDiag - A powerful Microsoft tool for examining everything to do with your Media Center setup

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/t/69863.aspx

 

[TheAceMan1]

linney . . .

Many ditto's on your post! ... Great Stuff ... saved me alot of searching. However, as a programmer (in checking this out) I can't help but believe that the problem is a dependent dll and not the [blue]Media Center[/blue] software itself.

[blue]How much RAM do you have ...[/blue]

I have a wopping [blue]6 gigaytes[/blue]. At the time of these long delays I have software that shows me [blue]Media Center[/blue] is using less then 1.0 gigbytes of ram. Compared to 600 MBytes at the start. I believe this is a software related problem and that its one of the services causing the problem ... aka a dependent DLL. If microsoft could take care of this I'm sure [blue]Media Center[/blue] would boom. I believe (for now) ... thats just the way it is. However ... for something so good ... I endeavor to find the answer.

Many thanks for the resources you've provided ...


See Ya! . . . . . .

Be sure to see thread181-473997 [blue]Worthy Reading![/blue]
Also faq181-2886 [blue]Worthy Reading![/blue]

 

[linney]

I have only ever glanced at this program, see what you think of it.

Dependency Walker 2.2

http://www.dependencywalker.com/

 

[flyboytim]

Mark Russinovich lecture

The video in the above link shows how to use free software from the Microsoft Sysinternals Suite to trace memory hogging programs, processes, and dependent threads, using Process Explorer/Process Monitor.

Discovering which process is using up resources is half the answer. Finding an alternative that does not hog memory can be much more difficult - or as simple as finding an available update for the program.

Unless you have a 64-bit version of Home Premium (or any other OS), you will not get to use all of your 6GB of RAM - a maximum of 4GB is the limit for 32-bit Windows systems.

 

[BadBigBen]

How about testing an alternative media center software?

I can recommend XBMC as a test candidate, it's free...

http://xbmc.org/

Ben
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