System freezes for 5 seconds when seeking in or skipping to songs and videos

System freezes for 5 seconds when seeking in or skipping to songs and videos

When I start playing a new video or MP3 or skip to a time when playing them, my system hangs for a couple of seconds. A restart solves this problem, but only for a while. It does not matter which player I use (VLC, Media Player, Winamp, Zoom Player), which media files or if they are located on a network drive or on the local hard drive. Everything else works flawlessly and after the playing has started, there are not problems - until I switch to another file.

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"Do these diagnostic steps when the problem occurs:

Try to disable your virus scanner and firewall because they might be slowing down the file access or album information request or something like that. In the trend of Sunny his answer, you can try to pull the internet cable too.
Use Process Explorer and make sure that the Update Speed under the View menu is set low enough. After a freeze occurs you can then look to see what process is causing this behaviour.
If you have the guts to go for a hard solution, look at a trace you can create with XPerf or take it to the Sysinternals Forums where they can help you with such trace or other tools like ADPlus.
In the worst case, your hard drive is failing and can only keep up with caching the song."