[gduns - with the Lord]

start the song that skips, then task manager (control-alt-delete) click the tab(on the top) that says "Processes" Hoster should have be almost the only thing using processor time.... now take into consideration, some other things will show 1% of time or so

But SPARKS was saying his would do a sharp spike (processor time being used) as the sound drops. see if something is taking over your processor, and try to identify it.

I had my pagefile set at 512MB. I read in the manual, I believe, that it should be set to TWICE the amount of RAM, of which I have 1024MB. That's why it was set there. I have played with that setting, and it doesn't change the effect.

This was written because most users only were running 64-128 megs of ram. Trust me, you don't even need a pagefile at all with 1 gig of ram. 512 is more than enough. a pagefile writes data to the hard disk while you are trying to read from it. it will slow down performance to have a 2048mg (2 gig) pagefile.