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Resource hogging and window grabbing
When I play back recorded TV, WMC is very greedy and eats up all of my CPU time. I can look at menus, TV Guide, etc. without problem - it's just playback that is the hassle.
But the really big problem that I've got is that even when the window is not full-screen, WMC doesn't like to let go of the focus so that I can surf the web, edit documents, etc. Again, this is a problem during playback. If I want to change window focus, I have to pause playback, click the window I want then start playback again. The mouse is effectively disabled during playback - movement is irregular, and mouse clicks are lost.
This hasn't happened to me in XP or Vista. I know that I need the WMC to be in a window (not maximised to full-screen) to easily swap windows - I'm used to that. But in W7 this goes to a whole new level of inconvenience.
There are two key difference: one I'm using W7 now, the other is that my twin monitors are both running from the same graphics card. I used to have two different graphics cards, but had driver issues when I moved to W7 so I'm using both the VGA and the DVI port on a single (new) graphics card now.
Anyone had a similar problem and found a work around?
Steve