Hi guys, I recieved my first laptop today. It's a Dell Inspiron 6400. The specification is as follows: Dell Inspiron LaptopIntel Pentium Dual-Core T2080 Processor(1.73GHz) 2GB of DDR RAM160GB Hard Drive 15.4" TFT display, WXGA resolution (1280 x 800) Graphics: Intel Media Accelerator 950 - up to 256MB 8x DVD+/-RW Drive Wireless 802.11A/B/G Operating system: Microsoft Vista Home Premium However.. is it normal for a new laptop to be running: 70-75 processes? Also when I first played the .wma sample tracks in windows media player it took approx 20 seconds for them to start/switch. MP3's seem to be fine. On Windows Live Messenger the sound for the nudges comes a second later. Other application sounds seem to be instant? Is there anything I should be concerned about? Thanks. edit: Hi guys. After a whole day of messing about I finally figured it. Basically I had to do the following: right click on the speaker icon in the taskkbar>select playback devices>select speakers>click properties (if a dialogue box doesnt pop open)> select: enhancements & then tick "disable all enhancements". By doing this it solved the audio problem. As for the programs.. well it doesnt seem to be slowing my system down so doesnt matter. I did uninstall some rubbish such as McAffie and other programs which I dislike.
I am not sure why the speaker stuff should have effected it this way, but it may be a driver issue or bios on the motherboard. etc.
