After posting my question about this in the hardware forum I have now got to the root of the problem.
I was using WINLCD by Nathan Stuart once I removed this plugin I was able to input a second command. So this plugin is taking all the resourses??
So has any one else had a similar problem using this plugin ...is there a better plugin out there to use (I would like a spectrum analyser). Has anyone got a similar setup with it working?
I'm running win98lite,winamp 2.71,350 AMD, 32 Meg Ram,8meg AGP Videocard.