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Windows Media Play and CTL+ALT+DEL

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by bundy

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Has anyone noticed that WinMe has a stability problem when Media Player is running and ctl+alt+del is activated. The system repeats the last note until task manager is shut down. Why?
This is apparent even when the onboard sound is used. I use quality products, so it definetly is not the hardware. Used different memory range from 128 to 768. When too many applications are open and ctl+alt+del is activated the system can crash. This symptom is repeated on my other ME computer. Microsoft does not know or wants to know about it. This is just a nagging problem that I would not mind to solve, just for the satisfaction of knowing. I have ruled out hardware and system settings. Any ideas!!!!

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by cnlson

this is not a problem only with media player. here is the situation: if you interupt the playing of a sound in windows. the sound card will repeat the sound until it received notice to stop making that sound and make a different tone or shut off. this issue of the sound repeating can manefest itself several ways from several different causes. on startup if you go to 100% usage of sys resources your sound will stutter until the resource load drops low enough. if you lock the computer up while a sound is playing it will keep repeating. the reason you see it with media player and c-a-d is that c-a-d causes all programs to STOP which means that the hardware(soundcard) then is waiting for the next tone/silence to be sent to it.

this is unfortunately normal.

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