First Bug: Windows 7

There seems to be an audio issue (confirmed from several forum posts) of as-yet unknown origin where the sound for things like flash and games slows down and becomes garbled (that's not an additional symptom, but rather the extent to which the slowdown occurs). I've noticed the problem on YouTube and the Windows games (the pre-installed set with Minesweeper, Solitaire, Chess, etc.). After having run the OS for about a week now, I hadn't noticed it before, so it seems to have started for unknown reasons. That's consistent with other reports.

I briefly checked the Task Manager to make sure there isn't some obvious resource hog that's bogging down the system, perhaps some indexing or a background system scan. I found nothing except (Oh, no!) System Idle Process was hogging all my processor power! Actually, that's normal and just means the CPU(s) aren't working very hard. I did notice that Firefox jumps from a few percent of processing resources to 40+% while playing a YouTube video, but I can't claim that to be abnormal. As I said, the audio problem also happens when playing Chess in absence of all else.

I'll continue to check out this issue and post any solutions I come across.