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[laddie]

Originally Posted by hwheeler43

I had an out of sync issue once and it was when I had forgotten to stop some services before starting my show. I run XP on a Toshiba laptop with 2 GB of ram.

Before each show I disable my wireless connection and exit all open programs including anti virus. I then go to Control Panel and Open Administrative Tools and then Services. I stop all services that are not needed for the show. This includes Automatic Updates, Anti Virus services, Microsoft Defender, etc.. This should not cause you any issues as the services will restart when you reboot your machine. Enabling and disabling the network connection is a manual thing but quite simple to do.

Pretty much anything that could pop up or start trying to access something when your in the middle of a show. Since you only need to run hoster, there is no need for an internet connection or any of the services listed. Since I started doing this I have ran several 7 to 8 hour shows with absolutely no problems. I have Hoster 4.05 running on the above mentioned Windows XP machine.

Just curious, are you running wmp 9 or wmp 11?

[hwheeler43]

WMP 11. I have read on here about problems, but (Knock on wood) I have not had any with it.

[laddie]

Originally Posted by hwheeler43

WMP 11. I have read on here about problems, but (Knock on wood) I have not had any with it.

When I was running wmp 11 and XP on my hp laptop, I had to make sure all unneeded programs were shut down ( virus, network, etc..) and still had problems.

I rolled back to wmp 9 and now I don't shut anything down and have my dj program (BPM Studio) open at the same time. It is my understanding that wmp 9 and 10 are basically the same, but WMP 11 is structured differently and designed to run on Vista so it may not functon correctly on some xp machines. If its working for you now, don't change it. I'm a true believer in the "If it ain't broke don't fix it" philosophy.

[Steve Bauer]

I have wmp 9. I guess I failed to stop all services.......anti virus, jukebox, Limewire, internet connection etc. It takes a while to learn what all is involved in this software/computer interface. Thanks guys for smartenin' me up!

[hwheeler43]

I just hope it helps. And I agree with Laddie on the if it aint broke dońt fix it principle. One thing that used to be in the manual is to turn off system restore. I have it off on my laptop, however I am not sure if that would be an issue or not.