In a way. I mean, the glitch is not present when I'm not in the bedroom, where the router is.

I should try putting the router somewhere else to see if that actually has anything to do with it. To...

Do you mean my router? That has always been in the bedroom and I never had any sound glitches with Windows 7. And yes, it's a laptop.

I have a similar problem, but in my case I've found that it has nothing to do with the browser window being active or minimized (I use Firefox, not Google Chrome). It only happens when the computer...