++ [ originally posted by Alex
] ++
Your computer probably gets slow after running various [useless

] apps for a while, the Win9x series especially has poor memory handling. Dunno what else to say about it except it's your
OS doing it .
If you're playing winamp you can remedy the issue by setting the thread priority to higher, meaning winamp will always get prioritized over other apps and hence songs won't skip [as much]. In the Winamp options.. Options > Process priority class > Realtime