Audio/Video Problems

I have been experiencing a lagging/choppy problem when playing WMP either videos or MP3's. The sound and the video is choppy and skips. I have an HP Media Center Edition with Realtek sound device & Windows XP HE. I ran my Spysweeper, Antivirus, CCleaner, System Mechanic, and have no malware problems. Also, when I play games, it lags pretty badly, getting the sound & screen stuck for a minute or so. This all started about a month ago. I have also noticed the computer is a little slower at startup too. I'm thinking its possibly my video or audio cards that need to be updated. My computer is only about 1.5 years old. I'm going to try this forum before calling the tech to come to my house.

 

Sounds more like you might have alot of processes running. Right click on your task bar and select task manager and go to the performance tab and see what your cpu usage is then take a peek at the process tab and see what's happening there............

 

I've done that before, and my usage was almost 100%. Using my ccleaner, i've stopped alot of programs from running at startup (updates etc..). However, its still pretty high, even when I'm not doing anything or running anything. When I go to the processes tab, there is a lot of stuff there, some are as big as 20,000 kb. Any ideas what to change or fix? Again, this only started happening about a month ago, before everything was fine. So, you don't think its an issue with the video or audio card. I've gone to my control panel, sound devices, and did the troubleshoot. It always says they're working fine.

 

Well I've got some processes that are over 70,000 kb also. There just seems to be alot of processes. Should there be alot of them? I was told I shouldn't remove or delete/cancel them. I don't know what is needed for the system.

It is only video/audio that is laggy. Only either in media player or when I play games. When I try to play these songs/videos in quicktime it does the same thing. I've had spysweeper for almost 2 years and it always ran fine, so i don't think its that. Thought it might have been a media player issue, but like I said it does it with games too. Now, when I watch a video in the web browser, even if its WMP, it plays fine. That's why i think its a system problem. Help!!!