WinAmp freezes

[Cisco Ducks]

Ever since WinAmp 2.6x, my system has gone through various freezes while using WinAmp. It would play a song or two, then midway through a song, it would just lock up. I wouldn't even get a warning with CrashGuard.

Now as buggy as CrashGuard is, the first thing I thought was it may be CrashGuard. Turning that (and the SETI client) off made no difference. Same problem.

I uninstalled WinAmp, reinstalled 2.64, same problem, only now I was extremely lucky to make it through one song.

Other MP3 players worked fine: CoolPlayer (lousy sound), Windows Media Player, MusicMach Jukebox all worked fine, in spite of their nearly unusable interfaces.

The fix?

I uninstalled WinAmp, ran Norton System Doctor and cleaned out every reference to WinAmp in my registry. I then did a search in my registry for any reference to WinAmp, and cleaned that out.

I reinstalled 2.64, and now it runs like a charm. No system freezes, no hiccups, nada. This is the way the damned thing is supposed to work.

So, I'm thinking it's just pile-up over pile-up of WinAmp upgrades over each other over the past year and a half or so.

Either that, or Elvis lives lives on my hard drive.

Hunk-a hunk-a burnin' love.

[jaggles]

say, i may need to do something like that.
how do you "clean out the registry" that sounds effective for other stuff.
please instruct if not too hard to explain.
thanks a ton!!!

[Ice]

use REGEDIT.. just becarefull, screw up there, your computer is an expensive paper weight.