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[abheeru]

Hi all,

While a dedicated desktop based DAW system would be nice, I use my computer for many tasks: (internet, office apps, multimedia, ect...).

So when I start my machine, it loads stuff that is not only unnecessary for use as a DAW, but in many cases is probably detrimental.

Even though I have a separate XP user for my music apps a lot of the support apps that I have installed for my other login still starts up for the music login.

Is there was a way to isolate the login to prevent this from happening. Experiments with msconfig have shown that even that seems to be shared between users :-(

Can anyone help?

Yes I could dual boot, but that would require buying another XP license, extra HD space for seperate OS, boot hassles,... :-(

Thanks,
Abheeru

[MrM]

'buying another XP license'
No; you can use your XP license two times on the same machine when using dual boot.
I know, I've done so; I've licensed once online, and once by phone. No problem at all.

Dual boot has a lot of advantages, you could search for some more info, I've spoken about dual boot with XP a few times in the past. Search for 'dual boot' and username 'MrM'

[TimOBrien]

Ask yourself "Do I really need to go to this trouble???"

Do some testing.

Record as many tracks as you'll ever need to record at one time.

Playback as many tracks as you think you'll ever need.

Watch your CPU performance indicators.

(I did and decided it wasn't worth any more tweaking; I can run 35 stereo 24bit/44.1khz tracks with the CPU only hitting 5-10%.)

Unless your system is tanking, don't put yourself through a lot of possibly UNNECCESARY work....