winamp problems

[gokuss4]

Well whenever I open up winamp, the system tray icon shows up, but it takes a long time to load up the winamp window (try around 2-3 minutes). Can someone tell me a solution to this problem?

 

[smcd]

Do you have a lot (or very odd) third party plugins? You might try removing them and seeing if the startup is faster.

 

[WhiteX]

or a clean reinstall of Winamp may do the trick.

 

[gokuss4]

tried... still the same thing

 

[smcd]

Do you have the media library and modern skin support? You might try disabling those as well if you do, just an idea.

 

[Clements]

I would not install the tray icon/WinAMP agent, its not needed, and the process remains resident in memory unless you disable it. You may want to consider installing WinAMP lite instead also.

 

[t0rek]

You should try unistall winamp, run something like crap cleaner to erase all the registry entries and stuff and install the most recent version from scratch. I second Clements about the winamp/icon agent

 

[smcd]

I use the agent because it keeps other naughty programs from hijacking my file associations (media player, real player, etc) and I delete all shortcuts to winamp and only access it via the tray agent icon.

 

[Borisz]

You can just set Windows Media Player to NOT use the specific file associations, and you should uninstall Realplayer. It's bloatware, spyware, and a dozen other kind of useless application.

 

[Allnatural]

You can just set Windows Media Player to NOT use the specific file associations, and you should uninstall Realplayer. It's bloatware, spyware, and a dozen other kind of useless application.

Yes. RealAlternative + Media Player Classic = ftw

Same goes for Quicktime.

 

[gokuss4]

still problems, this sucks. Maybe it's a conflict with wmp 10