Music Stutters

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I’ve had this problem since installing avast! Home v4…
I can’t chat on AIM or Yahoo while playing my music…either streaming or from my media players (Windows Media Player and WinAmp - latest versions) - every time I receive or send a message, the music cuts out or stutters. I suspect this has something to do with avast! as this has never happened until I switched over from Norton (all traces removed). Also, the music will skip or stutter when my email program is receiving new mail. I started watching closely, and whenever the avast! ball is spinning in my system tray, the music goes all wonky on me.

Can somebody please help me resolve this issue? I love avast! and have just sighed and put up with the music issue, but I’d really like to get it resolved…

I’m running Windows XP Home SP2…all updates installed.
1 gig of RAM
RealTek '97 with SRS Audio SandBox add-on
(All of these were in place and working perfectly prior to avast! being installed)

Thanks in advance!

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Check that the level of protection set in each of the providers is set to “standard” rather than “high”.
Other than that, I haven’t much idea…you could check in task manager when this occurs to see what application is using high cpu cycles.

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Thanks a BUNCH, Tarq57…I think that took care of the situation…only very minor stuttering so far…