Problems with windows media player 12

I'm having a strange problem with Windows Media Player in Window 7 64bit. I use a large widescreen monitor and am always moving and resizing open windows around my desktop, and I often have a video playing at the same time in media player.

However it doesn't take long before I get a "Windows has detected that your computers performance is slow" message, which is mystifing because I'm running an otherwise fast machine.

Anyway, today I happen to be watching my system gadget at the same time as moving things around etc, and here's what I found: every time I resize the Media Player window, my memory usage jumps a mb or so, so that my system goes from mb total usage up to mb in about 15 sec of just resizing the player.

At that point, media player freezes and I get the low perfomace popup. I assume I get it simply because windows thinks I'm low on memory. The second I close Media player memory usage drops down to mb or so. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? I did a search online and can't find anyone else with this problem.

I'm running the RC but I think I had this problem with the beta too. I've already ordered my retail copy, so I definitley want to solve this problem. Another sidenote, If I play the video in VLC player, and constantly resize the window I do not get the memory usage jump.

However I really prefer playing video in windows media player. Just a little updated info. I have a second machine that's running the 32bit RC and this behavior of Media Player and Aero is reproducable on there as well.

However, on that machine, when I resize Windows media player, memory usage increases dramatically until Aero crashes, then Aero immediately resets itself and memory usage is back to normal. Further resizing of media player no longer increases memory usage! Very strange! BUT, if I close media player and open another video, and start resizing the player again, memory usage jumps again until Aero crashes. All drivers are up to date on both machines.

Both machines pass Memtest and are Prime95 stable. Hi Lumpa,. I also suggest you increase the size of virtual memory and test the issue in Clean Boot. If the issue persists, would you please upload the following information to SkyDrive and provide us the link for analyzing? Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads.

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On a side note: what harm can be done with Advanced Tag Editor? I love it so much that I considered downgrading the second I found out it's gone.

It saved me a lot of times. Monday, May 25, AM. They are all in mp3 format. It has something to do with the registry if I'm not wrong, or something like that. Since they play fine and that's all I need after all, they're music, what's more important than that? It's just annoying when you've realized it and everytime you open WMP 12 the problem rubs themselves in your face.

Actually, I'd like more features to be integrated to WMP. Like, say, the ability to have albums inside an album kinda like folder, so you don't have to separate disc 1 and disc 2 from an album into 2 albums , or to have Windows Meda Player to display our OWN information that we put into the file not only information by Info Center, so we can display things like comments or some other stuff.

But then it's all about Microsoft. Tuesday, May 26, AM. Tuesday, May 26, PM. There's at least 1 month gap between the installation and the playback, so that couldn't be the problem. However, it interferes only with Windows Explorer, so it shouldn't be a problem too. I might try that registry kicking method, but will it remove my albums that I've sorted?

I might try it nonetheless, but if it will remove my album, I might stick with 0 bytes and just remove the size column,. It's kinda hard to organize the multi-disc albums. I mean, we put information in, why can't we see it in Information Center? Simply absurd, don't you think?