i have the gadget to measure processor usage and every once and a while it
will jump up causing the music i am listening to to pause/skip. this is a
brand new dell with 2 gig ram and a pretty quick processor so i dont see why
this is happening. it happens when i only have WMP open and am not on the
computer. anyone know how i can fix this or find out what is making the
spikes?

You can use the performance monitor (Search for 'Reliability and
Performance' in windows search). Create a user defined data collector set
that mimics the System Performance data collector set except that it is set
to run without a stop condition. Let it run until just after you notice the
hiccup, it snapshots system peformance every 15 seconds (you may want to
change the resolution to every second). When you notice a hiccup, note the
time and stop the data collector and review the report under User Defined
reports. You can drill down in the report and see what service or process
was hogging the CPU and from there determine what is exausting the system
resources.

-Brian

"lhsirako" wrote in message
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i have the gadget to measure processor usage and every once and a while it
will jump up causing the music i am listening to to pause/skip. this is a
brand new dell with 2 gig ram and a pretty quick processor so i dont see
why
this is happening. it happens when i only have WMP open and am not on the
computer. anyone know how i can fix this or find out what is making the
spikes?