Utorrent causes constant clicking sound when downloading a file

These settings further reduce CPU overhead by a tiny amount that may be sufficient to let you run a few more plug-ins. However, I don't recommend increasing buffer size beyond samples. Not only is this unlikely to reduce overheads any further, but recent personal experiments have suggested that some audio interfaces may exhibit erratic timing with latencies of 50ms and above.

Windows XP audio tweaks: Follow the list I provided in last month's PC Musician feature, removing unwanted tasks and interruptions and making sure that your ASIO drivers get higher priority, to ensure that Windows has the best chance of performing well with audio software.

You may find, after carrying out these tweaks, that you can run your audio interface at a significantly lower latency but still without clicks and pops occurring. Indeed, temporarily setting your interface to a lower latency is a useful way to see how well your PC has been set up for audio use, as is creating a song that runs at the limit of your CPU's capability, such as the 'DAW Bench' test I mentioned in PC Notes July Examine your song overheads: If, like most musicians, you're running your PC near its processing limits, with lots of plug-ins and soft synths, you may only suffer clicks and pops at a particular point in a particular song.

In my experience, this is most likely to be because your synths are attempting to play more notes at that point. For instance, you may only think you're probably only using four to eight simultaneous notes in a part, but if you've used the sustain pedal this can easily rise to 30 or 40 notes, while still not being particularly audible with some instruments.

Some soft synths obligingly provide a readout of current polyphony, which gives the game away: if the clicks only occur when polyphony rises, you need to cap it at a suitable value, as I explained in SOS July Hard drive settings: I keep trotting this one out, but each week it seems yet another musician posts on the SOS Forums complaining of clicks and pops as soon as they attempt to run more than about a dozen simultaneous audio tracks. Sometimes the clicks and pops are synchronised with the flashes of the hard drive activity LED on the PC's front panel, which makes the hard drive even more obvious as the culprit.

If you use a separate audio drive, try temporarily moving the song data to your Windows C: drive. If the problem disappears, it's your audio drive at fault. In general, if you're having intermittent clicks and pops and suspect your hard drive, try re-seating the various power and data cables to it inside your PC, especially if it's recently been on a journey.

Make sure you do so for your audio interface, graphics card and other expansion devices, as well as relevant Windows updates and Hot Fixes. A few musicians have PCs that continue to suffer from clicks and pops which remain impervious to each and every tweak. In my experience these are sometimes caused by innocent but ill-advised choices of hardware or combinations of hardware , but they are more often due to people's insistence on installing downloaded software from questionable sources.

If you're faced with an unreliable PC bogged down with assorted software, sometimes it's quicker and certainly more thorough to throw in the towel, re-format your hard drive and reinstall Windows from scratch. This approach has resolved countless problems over the years.

Just ensure you make an image file of your existing partition beforehand, so you can later extricate any files you haven't backed up elsewhere. Sometimes you can experience occasional but regular clicks and pops. Your song might be requiring more at such points, as previously described, but it may instead happen on every song at apparently random times, and this could be due to another software task cutting in and demanding its own resources.

Eliminate problematic background tasks: I've not had to do this for years, but that's largely because I run a separate stripped-down music partition that can successfully run most audio interfaces down to about 2ms latency at However, those of you that install everything on one big partition may have loads of tasks running in the background, some of which may have significant system overheads.

On its Processes page you'll see a list of processes currently running. You can then find out what each task does in the excellent Task List Programs section of the Answers That Work web site www. Also here is advice on whether or not the tasks ever cause problems, and which ones are vital to Windows and should be left alone. If you want to track down background tasks that cause audio problems, first see what's running in Task Manager's list of Processes top , and then research each entry in the list of Task List Programs on the Answers That Work web site.

You can end any process in Task Manager by right-clicking on it and selecting the End Process function, but this can cause system crashes unless you really know what you're doing.

Instead, I'd recommend that you find out how to disable any unwanted processes manually via the software that starts them in the first place, or use Microsoft's System Configuration Utility. Type 'msconfig' in the Windows Run box to launch the utility, choose the 'Selective Startup' option and then un-tick the required Services or Startup tasks on the appropriate pages before rebooting. Even more comprehensive is the Autoruns utility from Sysinternals www.

Most virus and spyware checkers that scan program files, documents, and emails in the background to keep your PC safe are known to impose significant CPU and hard-drive overheads at times, which can be a hindrance when making music, so deactivate them manually before you start. Not all utilities tell you before installing a new task on this list and you may find things such as Defragmentation and Registry checks that are scheduled to cut in while you're busy making music.

So your browser is bad then. PiusX Posted March 28, Posted March 28, Posted April 5, Sorry wrong place. JohnDazel Posted April 5, DreadWingKnight Posted April 5, Archived This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies. However, the most important part of all this is you, the user. Surf sensibly and think before you download a file or click on a link. Take a few moments to assess the possible risks and you should be able to enjoy all the internet has to offer.

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Constant clicking sound from my computer through speakers Started by Morian77 , Oct 04 AM. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next. Around here they call me Gringo and I will be glad to help you with your malware problems. Please do not run any tools unless instructed to do so. We ask you to run different tools in a specific order to ensure the malware is completely removed from your machine, and running any additional tools may detect false positives, interfere with our tools, or cause unforeseen damage or system instability.

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These are the programs I would like you to run next, if you have any problems with one of these just skip it and move on to the next one. Close all open programs and internet browsers. Double click on AdwCleaner. Click on Scan. After the scan is complete click on "Clean" Confirm each time with Ok. Your computer will be rebooted automatically. A text file will open after the restart. Please post the content of that logfile with your next answer. Shut down your protection software now to avoid potential conflicts.

Run the tool by double-clicking it. It has done this 1 time s. The following corrective action will be taken in milliseconds: Restart the service. Date: Regarding the ADWCleaner issue, just now when I tried to save Fixlist a window opens asking me what should firefox do with this file. There were two options: the first said open with default VLC or save.

Perhaps that explains why the logfile opened in VLC. Either way, I don't know what a preferable default file opener should be; kindly advise. Anyway I saved it to desktop and will run and post the log now.

Well, when I tried to open the file it opened in VLC as it would since that's the selected default. So then I opened it with Notepad. But I couldn't run it because it's not. There was nothing to 'run'. Please help. I don't understand. Thanks and apologies for being thick. PS I re-read the instruction.

When you said download to the same location I understood that to mean to desktop. Assuming that you want me to somehow download this and put it inside FRST, how would I do that step by step please. Or is it something else entirely? When you download AdwCleaner make sure you click on the button that the arrow points to in the following picture.

Since you are using Firefox, tell it Save then when the Download Arrow indicates it has completed, click on the download arrow and then on the little folder icon to the right of the file name. Open Containing Folder. This will open a new window. Right click on the downloaded file and Run As Admin. The Default for Firefox is the Downloads folder. If you haven't changed it then download the fixlist, click on the download arrow and then on the little folder icon to the right of the file name.

Right click on the downloaded file and Copy. Now slide up to the top where you should see Desktop. Click on it and then right click and Paste. That should put the FixList on the desktop. Look I'm sorry we're a bit bogged down here. You have misunderstood my issue. ADWCLeaner and the fixlist. The issues, as I tried to explain in my earlier response, was that the logfile which ADWCleaner generated after running it, tried to open in VLC Media Player, rather than in clipboard or something which could capture it for forwarding to you.

The second isssue is that fixlist is a textfile and so I don't understand who to run it since there is seemingly nothing to run. Right click on FRST. When the program comes up you will see a Fix button. Press it. That should generate a fixlog. IF you can't open it then attach it too. Thanks for trying to help me. I cannot attach the adwcleaner log because it does not generate. The program says it needs to restart in order to generate the logfile but then upon restart that file tries to open using VLC, which is naturally unsuitable and so the process stalls at that point.

I successfully ran FRST. It automatically generated and opened a logfile upon restart in Notepad and so I can attach it but I'll paste it out of fear of somehow losing it. Thank you for your persistence. That worked. Continue with the rest of the instructions. Once we are done with them I'll try to figure out what is wrong with your adwcleaner logs.

Thanks for sticking with me. I'm attaching the logs that I was able to produce. I cannot open any of the logs because VLC is the default file opening program, so I've attached them. The ADWCleaner log does not even generate.