winampa

[Shark]

If I have agent running - I cannot run disk defrag or scandisk as they "loop" forever.

I had defrag running for 10 hours one day, and when I came home to find it was only 20% done - well that kinda pissed me off. It's only a 10 GB drive. AS soon as I killed winampa in the Task List it let me continue.

argh.

Am I nuts here?

[itipton]

Exact problem here. I started NU's Registry Tracker for something the other day and every three seconds it would start a new snapshot. Didn't think I'd ever be able to quit the program. Needless to say Agent is no longer active on my machine.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Shark:
If I have agent running - I cannot run disk defrag or scandisk as they "loop" forever.

I had defrag running for 10 hours one day, and when I came home to find it was only 20% done - well that kinda pissed me off. It's only a 10 GB drive. AS soon as I killed winampa in the Task List it let me continue.

argh.

Am I nuts here?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[compupc1]

In order for scandisk and defrag to run, nothing may be written to the HD. If winampa or any other process is running and writting any sort of data to the hard drive, scandisk and defrag will restart. This is not something exclusive to Winamp's agent. It &lt;b&gt;would&lt;/b&gt; be nice (hint hint), however, for the agent to detect when scandisk or defrag begin to run and disable itself until the scan/defrag is complete. This &lt;b&gt;is&lt;/b&gt; possible; I have seen it done with other such programs.

-James

[Shark]

yes.. that's great. I know that.

Winampa is there so programs don't take over winamp's file associations. It is not (should not) be writing to the disk causing scandisk etc. to restart.

And my point of putting this here was so they would make it more friendly so I can run scandisk and what not without having to shut winampa off.

Or prove to me that it is not Winampa doing this and help me figure out what I am doing wrong......

[alvink]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Shark:
yes.. that's great. I know that.

Winampa is there so programs don't take over winamp's file associations. It is not (should not) be writing to the disk causing scandisk etc. to restart.

And my point of putting this here was so they would make it more friendly so I can run scandisk and what not without having to shut winampa off.

Or prove to me that it is not Winampa doing this and help me figure out what I am doing wrong......<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

It is Winampa that is causing the problem for me. I ran scan disc tonight and it cycled endlessly, I closed programs one at a time to see which one was causing it, when I closed winampa scan disc ran fine. When and tried the same fix for my second machine and it works,

If anyone is listening, FIX IT or I will use another player

[Chromed_Dragon]

I have a full 4 gig HD. It's not the fastest in its kind, and it takes me up to four hours to defrag it. Because of that, why would I want to have ANY programs running at that moment. There's always a risk one of those programs may access the HD.
Boot clean and quit nagging.

[iwillgetregisteredsoon]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>It is Winampa that is causing the problem for me. I ran scan disc tonight and it cycled endlessly, I closed programs one at a time to see which one was causing it, when I closed winampa scan disc ran fine. When and tried the same fix for my second machine and it works,

If anyone is listening, FIX IT or I will use another player <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
have you ever heard of turning it off? anyways, go use another player, but nothing, seriously, nothing else i have EVER tried beats winamp. it rulez keep up the good work... oh... and there seems to be a problem when i'm running winamp agent hehe =-)

[gerry64@turok.com]

Hey Shark and alvink (not so much shark) u r idoits, the whole Idea of Winampa is to check to see if your file associations have been changed, there for it has to keep refreshing in order to see wheater anything has been changed, basically what u said about how it shouldn't write to the harddrive, that's it's job u idiot, just turn it off, keep track of u r assotiations u r self u lamerz, they don't change that often!
PS. Go change the player u r using, do u think we care, people like u don't deserve to use a great programme like winamp!!!

[Shark]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by gerry64@turok.com:
Hey Shark and alvink (not so much shark) u r idoits, the whole Idea of Winampa is to check to see if your file associations have been changed, there for it has to keep refreshing in order to see wheater anything has been changed, basically what u said about how it shouldn't write to the harddrive, that's it's job u idiot, just turn it off, keep track of u r assotiations u r self u lamerz, they don't change that often!
PS. Go change the player u r using, do u think we care, people like u don't deserve to use a great programme like winamp!!!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oh silly me - I didn't realize that to compare two things you had to write down a third. Oh wait - that doesn't make sense. Winampa has NO need to write to the harddrive constantly, read it? Possibly.

All I'm suggesting is that when Scandisk or Defrag is run, Winampa "turn itself off" for the duration of that other programs life.

That's all - it's not to difficult to understand. No other program I leave running during these tasks give's me hassles.

Geez - Give me a break gerry64.

[overfloe]

Winampa sucks. seems that you can't turn it off (Try to turn it off, close winamp and rerun winamp). Even if it's disabled it stills running behind your system.

Before you defrag or scandisk, you have to press ctrl+alt+delete and select winampa and click end task (if winampa is still running).

..

[TonyC]

I renamed winampa.exe as winampa.exb and Winamp it seems to run fine without it. So if anybody doesn't want winampa in the background, just rename it. I am using winamp 2.5e.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Shark:
If I have agent running - I cannot run disk defrag or scandisk as they "loop" forever.

I had defrag running for 10 hours one day, and when I came home to find it was only 20% done - well that kinda pissed me off. It's only a 10 GB drive. AS soon as I killed winampa in the Task List it let me continue.

argh.

Am I nuts here?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[clowne]

i don't run winamp agent at all. yet it is still there even when winamp is closed.

Also, winamp opens itself 2 or 3 times (according to ctrl+alt+del) when i have multiple versions turned off. some of these will stay after it has been closed unless i use end task.

thx for the great free prog though...

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