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Got a problem with my computer in that its useless to watch any kind of video on the web - bbci, youtube etc.
The sound is usually ok but rather than a nice flowing video I get a series of stills, almost like pics that have been taken 5 - 10 secs apart.
Recently bought a 2nd hand laptop and both this and our old laptop refuse to talk to / couple to our modem so they are no use at all.
So decided to try and get desktop working right. Have added extra memory which seems to have speeded up normal browsing but not helped with video problem. According to Crucial.coms' scan its now running with max memory: 768MB.
My Norton antivirus (which seems to monitor everything else too) occasionally tells me that IE is using too much memory (something like 85% of the CPU) but doesn't give me a hint on how I may change this and have no idea myself - could this be causing the video problem?
Thanks
The sound is usually ok but rather than a nice flowing video I get a series of stills, almost like pics that have been taken 5 - 10 secs apart.
Recently bought a 2nd hand laptop and both this and our old laptop refuse to talk to / couple to our modem so they are no use at all.
So decided to try and get desktop working right. Have added extra memory which seems to have speeded up normal browsing but not helped with video problem. According to Crucial.coms' scan its now running with max memory: 768MB.
My Norton antivirus (which seems to monitor everything else too) occasionally tells me that IE is using too much memory (something like 85% of the CPU) but doesn't give me a hint on how I may change this and have no idea myself - could this be causing the video problem?
Thanks