Something's running every half hour.

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Al Campagna

I noticed that while watching a streaming movie, that every half hour, the
movie
stutters, and the audio gets out of synch with the video.

This happens at 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, etc... on every half hour.

This seems to be some program, is running in the background every
half hour, and uses enough system resources to cause the video to stutter.

I do have virus updates and some backup routines, but nothing that I would
have
requested to run every half hour.

Is there some tool, or utility, I can use to try to find out what is running
at those times? Something like a log of all system events?

Thanks for any assistance,
Al Campagna
 
I noticed that while watching a streaming movie, that every half hour, the
movie
stutters, and the audio gets out of synch with the video.

This happens at 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, etc... on every half hour.

This seems to be some program, is running in the background every
half hour, and uses enough system resources to cause the video to stutter..

I do have virus updates and some backup routines, but nothing that I would
have
requested to run every half hour.

Is there some tool, or utility, I can use to try to find out what is running
at those times?  Something like a log of all system events?

Thanks for any assistance,
Al Campagna
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Buffer? ...or ads time from the source?
 
Sandy,
Well, the movie only took a few minutes to fully buffer, so I think it's
not that.
But, I was on a site I hadn't used before, and the ad idea may be the
reason.
I do have AdBlock running (I did not see any ads pop up), so... perhaps
it
was Adblock that used up the resources.
I'll check that out further...
Is there some tool, or utility, I can use to try to find out what is
running
at those times? Something like a log of all system events?
Click to expand...

Thanks for your help,
Al Campagna


I noticed that while watching a streaming movie, that every half hour, the
movie
stutters, and the audio gets out of synch with the video.

This happens at 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, etc... on every half hour.

This seems to be some program, is running in the background every
half hour, and uses enough system resources to cause the video to stutter.

I do have virus updates and some backup routines, but nothing that I would
have
requested to run every half hour.

Is there some tool, or utility, I can use to try to find out what is
running
at those times? Something like a log of all system events?

Thanks for any assistance,
Al Campagna
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Buffer? ...or ads time from the source?
 
Unknown,
My AVG is running in the background.
My email checks every 5 minutes, and runs in the background too

Perhaps at this point it would be very difficult to try to "by logic
alone"
determine the culprit.
That's why I asked if There was any kind of
Windows XP utility or function that would "trace" Windows activity in a log,
in hopes of seeing who's using what... and when.

Also, this was a web site I was not familiar with, and as a Sandy
suggested,
it could be the site itself.

Thanks for your help,
Al
 
There are times when you just have to use the process of elimination. IE
shut down one or more things
at a time till it no longer fails. Processes in task manager may give you a
clue. .
 
if it were my machine I
would simply start
with a clean boot,

then I would begin tracking
down the issue if the clean
boot didn't resolve the problem
to begin with.

however, you may simply
want to review the startups
in the msconfig

then disable any lines
that infer to updating,
scheduling, auto, etc....

review the lines carefully
because the developers
are using fancy filenames
to disguise the updaters
that check their home site.

another possibility may
be "indexing".


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Al said:
I noticed that while watching a streaming movie, that every half
hour, the movie
stutters, and the audio gets out of synch with the video.

This happens at 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, etc... on every half hour.

This seems to be some program, is running in the background every
half hour, and uses enough system resources to cause the video to
stutter.

I do have virus updates and some backup routines, but nothing that I
would have
requested to run every half hour.

Is there some tool, or utility, I can use to try to find out what is
running at those times? Something like a log of all system events?

Thanks for any assistance,
Al Campagna
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If it does so like you say, why not just be in Task Manager just before it
happens and see what is suddenly using the cpu?
Buffalo
 
Thanks everyone for your assistance...
Tried ProcExplorer (which is pretty neat), but it didn't catch anything,
at failure time.

First, I noticed that 2 video sites now did the same thing, so I
left the Web and the sites out of the problem for now.
Other than AVG anti virus, and SyGate firewall, I have three other apps
that run all the time.
Mail Washer (anti-spam), Phone Tray, and Kalender, which I've used for
some years.
With all 3 closed... no hesitation every ½ hour!
Step by step... it finally came down to Mail Washer.
It checks mail every 5 minutes, but it's doing something else evry 30
minutes, and I'll
be darned if I can find anything in the configuration/preferences that would
account for
that time period.

I'll probably give Mail Washer Support a go, but I'm certain it's the
culprit.

Can't say what the solution is, but... thanks everyone for your help!
--
Al Campagna
Microsoft Access MVP 2007-2009
http://home.comcast.net/~cccsolutions/index.html

"Find a job that you love... and you'll never work a day in your life."
 
Agreed...
See my last post as to how I hunted done the culprit.
My MailWasher spam program.
Process of elimination, as you say...
Thanks,
Al
 
For spam control.

Actually, I just switched over to Spamihilator, after running into this
minor bug.

Why? Is there a problem with MailWasher?

Al
 
The more trash you install on any computer the more prone it is to various
types of failures.
Also the more non Microsoft programs you install the more prone to problems.
Investigate MSE, if you like it install it and try it out. You do not need
Norton, Semantics,
MailWasher, Spamihilator (if that's how it's spelled) and all that other
trash.
 
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