External drive causing lag

[DelJo63]

Hmm; makes no sense imo. How is your system configured for AUTOPLAY?
I am conjecturing that if autoplay for CDs is enabled and the external hd has audio content - - > VIA HD audio is scanning for your music.

 

[Jad Chaar]

Well I dont have MSE in front of me (on a mac), but there is an option somewhere in settings that may be checked. It has something to do with scanning a external drive. If I am not mistaken, it is in the first tab of settings.

 

[LukeDJ]

I had my auto-play set to do a couple of things, but nothing to do with an external HD. Still, I reset everything to default, and this changed nothing. I even disabled autoplay altogether , and still no change

Well I dont have MSE in front of me (on a mac), but there is an option somewhere in settings that may be checked. It has something to do with scanning a external drive. If I am not mistaken, it is in the first tab of settings.

Yeah, there is an option to scan external HD's, but only for when you do a scan manually, and it doesn't scan when the drive is plugged in (I had this disabled anyway).

 

[Jad Chaar]

I had my auto-play set to do a couple of things, but nothing to do with an external HD. Still, I reset everything to default, and this changed nothing. I even disabled autoplay altogether , and still no change


Yeah, there is an option to scan external HD's, but only for when you do a scan manually, and it doesn't scan when the drive is plugged in (I had this disabled anyway).

Yeah it is disabled by default.

 

[DelJo63]

"Yeah it is disabled by default"
However, the first time a USB device is inserted, the user is prompted for a choice of a default action to perform and to remember it. Just how many of us scroll to the bottom and use Do Nothing?

 

[Jad Chaar]

"Yeah it is disabled by default"
However, the first time a USB device is inserted, the user is prompted for a choice of a default action to perform and to remember it. Just how many of us scroll to the bottom and use Do Nothing?

I use Do nothing a bunch. I barely use USBs anymore with the availability of DropBox, Drive, and Skydrive. But I cant chose "Do Nothing" when I plug in my iPhone. I forgot if I can X out, but I am pretty positive I had to chose an option.

 

[DelJo63]

For Win/7 users, CP->AutoPlay has the control list that is easy to access.

Remember, Autoplay is not the same as Autorun

 

[Jad Chaar]

For Win/7 users, CP->AutoPlay has the control list that is easy to access.

Remember, Autoplay is not the same as Autorun

Right, thanks for that info man!

 

[LukeDJ]

As I said before, autoplay isn't doing anything, so it isn't that.

 

[misor]

LukeDJ, have you configured any music/video manager?
my free winamp version has this feature which autodetects music/video files from usb external devices.
this option can be turned off and winamp prompts whether to add the usb device as a music/video source or not.

from the processes of your task manager, I narrow it to these possibilities:
1. iTunes helper and ipodservice.exe
(your iTunes may be configured to scan external usb device as music/video source)
2. wmpnetwk.exe
(windows media player network sharing service)

do you stream media?

 

[LukeDJ]

I can't seem to find that option in either iTunes or Windows Media Player. I don't believe that this is the problem though, as neither of those programs show an increase in CPU or Memory usage when I plug the drive in. The only thing that seems to be spiking is Via HD audio, which has basically 0 features, so I'm not sure what it is doing.

And no, I don't stream media.