Thanks for all of the help

Making progress. Slowly, painfully. I'm at a level where I can sit and catch my breath, and use the PC for a time without trouble. That's my plan for the next week or so. It feels like I'm jury rigging everything, kind of like when your car breaks down and you do a temp repair in order to drive the last 5 miles home. If I hadn't managed to get some progress I'd do a clean reinstall and see if it helped; now I have too much to lose as I doubt I could remember half of what I've done to get it tolerable.

After that I shall look at changing my RAM settings on my board; it defaults to very safe levels and so they are currently running below spec. If only I can remember how I altered it when I built the PC and what settings I used ...

The extra RAM is nice. I got to play a few games and it's made an appreciable difference. Victoria 2 is the most drastic - it loads twice as quickly, possibly faster.

Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
1. Can go one better, you can set it to keyboard commands, so you don't even does a taskbar.
What are the commands?

3. Default player can do this - Select Track > Right Click > Play
It works! Ah ha! And I've been all over the internet hunting for just that - Microsoft's own detailed user guide doesn't mention it! It insists that the only way to loop a single track is to search for it until there are no other results in the pane, and then play it.

Might seem like a lot of excitement for something so small - it's vital to my writing. I put a single track on endless loop and as long as it fits the mood I'm writing that's it, I blank it out entirely and write without trouble. Change the track or force me to pay attention and my writing flow dies completely.