Windows Winamp 5 + Photoshop problems

I'm running Windows 2000 SP2, for some reason whenever I have Winamp 5 and Photoshop 6 open at the same time, the whole system becomes unstable. Anyone have any explanation for this or knows how to fix it?

 

cld me lack of memory as photoshop is memory hungry and winamp5's new skins am sure take a chunk or memory!

wot ur mem?

 

256 of pc2100, crap I know but I can't afford to upgrade right now

Always worked fine when I was running XP though, it's only since I installed 2k that it's started playing up. Plus it happens even when I have winamp on classic mode.

Can be anything from Winamp crashing, to the entire machine crashing when I change tracks, it's not always the same. Is quite weird.

 

Id go with Mikey on this one. Im running XP Pro, and doing anything else when Photoshop is on is a major no-no.
Ive got 512MB and even that aint enough for Adobe's memory hog sometimes.

btw, if you visit Crucial's site, I believe 256MB stick of ram will cost u under £30 at the moment. Not much of an investment, and it might cure yr probs a little.

 

which release of winamp 5 is it ?

5.02 was really bad on my gaming box and laptop both ...

5.03 is really stable ... might just need to update ...

or go to oldversion.com and get a version like 2.83 or before.

 

That's weird, because i thought all versions of winamps 2 and 5 have been rather good (had a few). Maybe it's just XP being a total woman as usual?

As for windows 2000, update to service pack 4 - that usually solves some of the strange problems i've had with software, it's free as well, so there's no reason not to do it...

 

Ahem...not really sure I can do that...