Thanks for the info Detector! I will be checking out the RamDrive for sure tho im not all that great on any programming if thats whats involved but I will try! Yeah between having MusicMatch running while online and then try to open an .exe file it can either slow the player down for a few moments or make it stutter tho not always so im sure that my first direction will be the memory card increase even tho the last time I had checked, the darn things are getting more expensive it seems which I guess is what ive got to pay for having an antique machine!
The heck of it is, its still a good one and I will keep it even if im able to get a new PC. I do wish that I could still be running 98Se which was factory installed originally but for whatever reason when I tried to load it during the reformat, it wasnt getting everything and would have been a real problem and when I was offered the (I soon learned) rescource draining Win2000Pro it wasnt so much of an upgrade really to be worth what I lost in virtual memory or perfomance IMO but the price was within my budget (both then and now) as in free. I just thought of something that ive used maybe twice since I did the reformat and im not sure it will help or not but I do have WinRAR so I could maybe give it a try, see how it works for mp3 files. Also, even tho im not downloading mp3s on any kind of regular basis I do get in the CD burning mode and tho like everything else my HP burner may not be a speed demon but it does work well and as far as playing CD's they go in the SONY system. The sound card and speakers that I have - a 2 + powered sub - sounds pretty good, lots of oooomph (enough for a $50 ticket when still in good ol
DC!
), but its not quite like the 300W 5.1 SONY. Again I thank both you and Tee for your suggestions!