system pauses at regular interval, for about three seconds.

[Guest]

hello everyone,
my windows xp professional, pauses for about three to four seconds, at regular intervals especially when playing movies with media palyer 9. it also pause, every time i type for the some amount of time.
could it be a case of more RAM needed, or that my hard drive needs to be checked. i got a 20 gb hard drive, with 184 RAM.
any work around suggestion would welcome.
thanks

 

[Guest]

Try turning off your Anit-Virus engine for a period of
time. It may be that when it does a realtime scan that
the CPU usage goes to max for a couple of seconds. WHen
this happens, all other stuff halts.

-----Original Message-----
hello everyone,
my windows xp professional, pauses for about three to

four seconds, at regular intervals especially when
playing movies with media palyer 9. it also pause, every
time i type for the some amount of time.

could it be a case of more RAM needed, or that my hard

drive needs to be checked. i got a 20 gb hard drive,
with 184 RAM.