Thank you all very much
OK, being an IS-weenie myself for the Last dozen years or more, I tried all the obvious stuff before posting here. I rebooted, checked available system resources, ran Scandisk, and all that crap before asking you all for help. And none of that had helped.
It was the CD Music thing. I had CD music turned on, and no CD in the CD-drive.
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