Song skips for just a split second

[captnkarl]

I have been using this program on the same computer for over a year and just tonight it started skipping during a song. these are already on my hard drive, not a singers disc...HELP ASAP, my DJ is trying to make it through the night.

[Beavis]

how old is your hard drive ?

do you have your computer set up to do automatic updates from MS ?

[captnkarl]

about a year old the hard drive.....ms updates are auto i think. I just ran two shows the last two nights and this didn't happen

[Roy Dennis]

It could be another program working in the background. Make sure your anti-virus is turned off while doing a show or at least not doing a scan of your system.

Roy.

[MTUSUPPORT]

If it just stared, its something in the computer. As stated above, sounds like maybe another program, spyware, malware, or a virus.

First thing I would do is to run all Antivirus scans on the computer and also check for Spyware.

[Singsation]

could try a hard drive defrag, might just speed things up a bit.!

[mindonstrike]

Is it a skip or an audio drop?

Open Taskmanger and watch what your cpu does during the skips.
also look for processes that spike a little during the skip.

If all else fauls you might restore the computer to before the problem started.

I believe it is recomended that you not use the windows auto update because they tend to focus on security stuff rather than performance stuff. It's recomended you use windows update from start/prorgrams/windows update and then select custom rather than express.
Somebody correct me please if I'm wrong on this point.