Been trying to solve a stutter / pausing during playing of audio visual on my Sony laptop for a couple of weekends. Doesn't matter if it an iTunes file or Youtube. It even will do it during boot up. Did all the usual scans defrags etc. Traced it down to the average queue length being too long. No errant process's identified in Task Manager. I upgraded to 2Gig worth of RAM (for some reason only 1 Gig is showing) which helped but didn't eliminate it. An interesting observation is that when I play a youtube (Top Gear CLK63 Black Series) the longer I play it the average queue length drops to an acceptable level.
So should I:
a) Reformat my harddrive (Only using a 25G of with 43G available)
b) Buy a new computer because the drive in this one is shot.

Its a Sony VAIO 1.73Mhz laptop

Thanks in advance.

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