I have a theory. It could be dust bunnies.

In this house (single guy not good at cleaning), that is a distinct possibility!

Oh god. I get that broken script message all the time o_a. I thought it meant I need to get a new computer...that, plus wicked maddening slow + way crashy.

But, if YOU get it.

I had to skip all the code talk...do you have a solution?

Okay, so I asked, before the end of the year, when I should buy a new Mac.

Is now the right time?

I found a 27 inch, but I wonder if mid 2015 is appreciably less valuable than late 2015.

Thoughts?

I keep killing headsets and having microphone issues. I'm beginning to think it's my computer.

of course Windows 10 doesn't make it easy to copy and paste information but I have this computer Asus M32AD M32AD-US032S.

I've tried the following brands: Astro, Corsair, Steel series, several Logitechs. And either the mic cuts out and I sound like robotic static or in the last one the usb was bad.

I've tried USB and non USB head sets. I just got the Logitech G930 and the mic worked. Briefly and now it doesn't. I'm frustrated because sometimes it's the mic and sometims the sound cuts out and I don't know what's going on.

I thought it was me just twisting the cables but I dont' think that's the reason.

any suggestions

Just as an FYI for Windows people, I was doing a bunch of regular maintenance and decided to do a full virus scan (instead of quick). It was taking forever and around hour 5 I noticed it was hung up on one folder, so I googled the name of the folder and found this.

I had noticed I had less free space than I thought I should have, and some (very mild) slowness, especially with itunes (but, it's itunes after all, which sucks). Anyway I couldn't even open the folder to get at these useless Media Player files, so I'm using the CCleaner hack in that thread to get rid of them. I'm on hour 14 or so.

Here's hoping this works. I figure I have at least another day of this.

Make that days? Or weeks? In any case, given that I'm only on files starting with number 5 and I assume I have the whole alphabet to go (progress bar is not even above 0%), I have a CCleaner question.

I am in Run Cleaner mode already, not Analyze. So, if I hit "cancel" now, can assume that the files to this point have been deleted? Basically, can I do this a little at a time?

I figure if I can delete enough via CCleaner I will eventually be able to open the folder in Explorer and delete faster from there, but since CCleaner seems to be running in the background without issue I obviously don't want to stop it if it's all for naught.

I can't answer that question, but I was able to clear 33,000 files (about 1GB) from my old Windows 7 machine. I don't have iTunes installed on there any more, though, which may help. The system just let me delete them. So thanks for the heads-up.

Supposedly Media Player caches things like when you look at a song on Amazon for 10 seconds.

From what I've seen, disabling MP Network Sharing in services.msc and making sure it is not part of Start-Up prevents future caching. Again, if I used MP I would be less miffed at this, but since I don't, I find it particularly annoying that it was essentially duplicating all the images in my iTunes library as well as adding useless online stuff.

So the final tally was something like 20GB of junk files, all based on the default settings for a Windows program I don't really use. Thanks Obama.

Report: I canceled CCleaner after about 24 hours of deleting (2-3 GB) and was finally able to get into the Media Player "localmls" folder to delete the entire folder overnight and recreate it this morning. I'm going to leave the custom folder string in CCleaner just in case disabling Network Sharing doesn't work and the files start to get rewritten.

Just ran Disk Cleanup and can already see a huge speed difference with these 600K+ files off my machine. Funny how that is.

Dang, that's wild.

Wow.