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System-Wide Audio Stuttering
For the last day (since April 1) I've noticed that there is a system-wide audio stutter. It doesn't matter if it's Youtube on Google Chrome or IE or music played via VLC media player, the song will stutter once for just a second then keep going. All the aforementioned software is in its latest state (except maybe VLC but I have no idea why that would cause a system-wide problem). Java and Flash are both as up to date as they can be.
I'm running Win 7 64-bit using Malware Bytes and Microsoft Security Essentials for keeping my laptop clean, both are up to date and have found nothing. I found another thread that seemed similar ( music stutters ) which suggested a “DPC Latency Checker” I tried it, and the checker says that my laptop is fine for streaming so it's not that.
On a whim I also tried a quick defrag and a bit of disk cleanup...just in case; didn't help, but figured I'd throw that in just to sum everything up.
So...Advice?
Addendum: The laptop itself is an HP Pavilion dv4, a check through my drivers says that everything audio related is up to date.
System restore has done nothing, neither has a reinstall of my sound card drivers. A list of all the processes that are normally running can be found lower in the thread for those interested. Disabling all non-Microsoft services has done nothing to fix the problem.
Last edited by SabWhipp; 09 Apr 2013 at 03:37. Reason: Added information for new readers.