[hmp3]

I'll try 4.

 

- Happy Holidays!

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Launching the browser with 4 resulted in audio extremely slow audio drop-outs and freezing in another browser set to 8 (default).

Reduced 4 to 3 to wait and see if there's a difference.

Happy New Year and I hope the dish project on your roof has become secure and successful!

[hmp3]

Launching the browser with 4 resulted in audio extremely slow audio drop-outs and freezing in another browser set to 8 (default).

Reduced 4 to 3 to wait and see if there's a difference.

Happy New Year and I hope the dish project on your roof has become secure and successful!

[hmp3]

Hi, the browser isn't causing issues when set to 3. But I think my two mp3 players (XMPlay & Foobar2000) are sometimes causing the other to freeze audio, e.g. I pause foobar, and XMPlay freezes, then I close foobar and successfully click to resume XMPlay.

[RKinner]

If you pause MSE & MBAM do you still have the problem?

 

Also you may have told me before but what Motherboard do you have?  Is it so old that it can't do SATA3?

[hmp3]

IIRC, we tried pausing MSE & MBAM.

ASUSTeK Computer INC. P6T (LGA1366)

[RKinner]

Appears the motherboard can only do SATA II so that's why Speccy shows SATA II & not SATA III.  Was hoping something was wrong there.  Does mean that PageFaults will have more of an effect than they normally would with an SSD.

 

Does Latency Monitor show a lot of page faults when you run one of the problem programs?

[hmp3]

Msmpeng.exe shows 40+ faults every time.

[RKinner]

I think that's MSE.  Can you disable it for a while?  Also there is a lot of stuff on the Internet about excluding its own folder from its scanning.  Appears that fixes some problems.  

1. In MSE's "Settings," exclude its own folder from being scanned (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client)

 

Have we run some extra scans like MBAR or ESET to make sure there is nothing annoying MSE?

[hmp3]

I could disable it, but I'd have to do it for a whole week, as symptoms aren't daily.

I've now excluded MSE's own directory.

I don't remember doing MBAR or ESET.

[RKinner]

This is MBAR:

 

https://www.malwareb...com/antirootkit

 

Hit the Download button, save then go to the download folder and right click on the file and Run As Admin.  Follow the instructions.  Will go faster if MSE is not fighting it so best to disable MSE first.

 

 

ESET:

 

https://www.eset.com...online-scanner/

 

Download button on bottom of page.  Same instructions.  Might want to run at night while you sleep as the last time I ran it it took several hours to complete.

[hmp3]

Scans were clean.

[RKinner]

I think the latest update to MSE is killing you.  Microsoft doesn't care if it fouls up Win 7 in fact they would probably consider it a desirable trait.  Check to make sure it is not trying to do scans when you want to use the PC.  

[hmp3]

I let MSE do a scheduled late night scan, so I'll check to see if it's scanning when audio drops again.

[hmp3]

No, I've checked and the MSE scan isn't running during audio dropouts.

Btw, I've noticed a strange buzz sound that happens (not during dropouts) and my event viewer doesn't show anything happening at the timestamp. I've muted system/windows sounds.

[RKinner]

Buzzing sound?  From the fan perhaps or perhaps the power supply (it has a fan too)?  Perhaps there's a fan in the graphics adapter.  Might be the hard drive going bad.  CD/DVD?  Not much else that can make a noise unless that power supply voltage isn't filtered like it should be then you could hear noise on the speaker even when it is muted.