RE: PC Notebooks and Cleaning up the startup menu

["Dean, Hal " <HDEAN@wcupa.edu>]

Kris, see http://www.musicxp.net/.  It looks like it has at least some
of the compendium of advice about tuning an XP-based machine for audio
that I found 4 years ago when I set up my Vaio.  I was looking into how
to turn off the power management features in XP, I think related to
bypassing automatic IRQ assignments. I have a printout of that
compendium, from Tweakers' Asylum, but looking today it was anything but
obvious how to navigate to that now. I've since seen other similar
instructions, but in my opinion they were not as comprehensive.

Anyway it looks like the link I pasted in above will take you to a
pretty comprehensive discussion of services and other issues related to
maximizing the audio performance of an XP machine. You may not wish to
do as much as I did, which eliminated any power saving, alerts about
battery power and the like, and "disconnected" all means of going
online.

If this site doesn't satisfy you, take a look at what a search on "XP
audio tweak" or something similar gets you.

Howl Din

-----Original Message-----
From: Krispen Hartung [mailto:khartung@cableone.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:05 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: PC Notebooks and Cleaning up the startup menu


Per, offshoot question...or anyone using a PC based notebook. These days
PCs 
load a lot of crap in the startup menu, which takes up resources and
cache 
memory. Yet is is hard to determine what is critical or not. Anyone have
any 
recommendations on what one can remove from the startup menu of a brand
new 
notebook? Or how does one find out what all those programs do, which are

cryptically named and shown when you open your Task Manager and look in
the 
Processes tab?

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: Buying a laptop for Mobius


> On 10 maj 2006, at 07.15, mark t wrote:
>
>> I have always been a mac guy.  I got a g4 powerbook and a g5.  I am 
>> "considering" getting a pc laptop to soley use Mobius.  Any of you 
>> seasoned PC guys recomend me something good and affordable.  You know

>> the deal....I would like to be able to run 8 stereo loops comfortably

>> without gliches and crashes and to much stress on the machine.  So 
>> help me out whats a good solid machine to use for soley Mobius.  
>> thanks.
>
>
> I have a PC laptop based on the centrino concept and it's fine for
> Mobius. The CPU is a Pentium M 755, 2 GHz Dothan. 1 GB ram. I'm using
an 
> Indigo Echo stereo (two in/outputs) sound card or a RME Multiface
when I 
> need eight physical in/output + digital. Both are PCMCIS  cardbus
based. 
> MIDI is handled by a USB MIDI link (on MIDI in + one  MIDI out).
That's 
> totally glitch free and runs eight stereo tracks of  as many loops I
need. 
> I have no other software installed on the pc  except for Mobius and
some 
> other music application, just the plain XP  service pack 2. No anti
virus 
> and I never bring it onto the internet.
>
> Like you I do most of my work in OS X on Macs (I also have a g4 pbook

> and
> a dual G5) and I think that if I should have gotten into Mobius  today
I 
> wold have been looking for one of the new intel based Macs  instead.
It's 
> just so boring to travel with the PC laptop and don't  have access to
my 
> other fav tools like Logic, Metasynth, Numerology  or Augustus Loop.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
>
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