You have failed me for the last time. *Kuuuh-huuuh*
Do the Kuh-huh sound effect without using your vocal cords. It's an attempt at Darth Vader's breathing.
Anyway, Vista has dropped the last straw. I have been having problems with Vista a lot lately. I'll have Chrome and/or Firefox open with many tabs, and maybe one or two things running in the backgroun (Torrent, etc.), and it will be slow as shit. Well, with a dozen tabs open in each of two browsers, I'm not too surprise. But even when I close most things, it still lags like hell. I open task manager and see things pegged at 99%, then drop off, then peg again, but the Processes list tells me nothing. I've done full virus scans and still no luck. So I've just been dealing with it.
Well, this evening, while folding laundry, I had everything closed except BitTorrent (with two things downloading at under 100KBps total) and Windows Media Player going. And the music would skip every so often. I opened Task Manager and found a program called mfpmp.exe using 10% of my CPU. What the hell is the mfpmp.exe? Google to the rescue!
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/mediafoundationdevelopment/thread/86411bbd-95d0-48b3-8e8d-6f1fbbaaed2c/
It's a program for DRM. It causes all unprotected media to run a shit ton slower. It's a Vista-only thing.
Vista, you have fucked up for the last time. Tomorrow, I'm clearing Vista from this laptop and installing XP and Ubuntu. I think I'll play with Ubuntu exclusively from now on, but keep XP as backup until I figure out how to get games working in Ubuntu.
Anyway, Vista has dropped the last straw. I have been having problems with Vista a lot lately. I'll have Chrome and/or Firefox open with many tabs, and maybe one or two things running in the backgroun (Torrent, etc.), and it will be slow as shit. Well, with a dozen tabs open in each of two browsers, I'm not too surprise. But even when I close most things, it still lags like hell. I open task manager and see things pegged at 99%, then drop off, then peg again, but the Processes list tells me nothing. I've done full virus scans and still no luck. So I've just been dealing with it.
Well, this evening, while folding laundry, I had everything closed except BitTorrent (with two things downloading at under 100KBps total) and Windows Media Player going. And the music would skip every so often. I opened Task Manager and found a program called mfpmp.exe using 10% of my CPU. What the hell is the mfpmp.exe? Google to the rescue!
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/mediafoundationdevelopment/thread/86411bbd-95d0-48b3-8e8d-6f1fbbaaed2c/
It's a program for DRM. It causes all unprotected media to run a shit ton slower. It's a Vista-only thing.
Vista, you have fucked up for the last time. Tomorrow, I'm clearing Vista from this laptop and installing XP and Ubuntu. I think I'll play with Ubuntu exclusively from now on, but keep XP as backup until I figure out how to get games working in Ubuntu.