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if you want to make xp faster all you have to do is clear the cache.
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That's good to know. How do you clear the cache? I am having issues with processing speed between hard drives. Maybe this could help me with my problems.
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Heh...
A bunch of quick tips to clean up a computer, get everything running smooter.
Run disk cleanup.
If you have it installed (it's an optional component to windows) you can run it from Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Diskcleanup
Check for spyware and other stuff that shouldn't be there.
Download and install spybot from www.spybot.info
Update the software (one of the options during installation)
Click Check For Problems, Fix everything it finds.
Give your computer a reboot.
A lot of people nowadays leave their systems on overnight, if it's been on a couple of days, give it a reboot. The simple things always work.
After rebooting it, check how many processes you have running on startup, this will give you an idea of how much stuff you have running that doesn't really need to be there. In order to do this, goto Task Manager (right click on the taskbar and click Task Manager), and check how many processes are running (it's stated in the bottom left of the window). It should be around 28, depending on your system configuration. Anything over 35 and you've probably got problems.
In order to fix this you need to be a little bit more technically competant, so I'm not going to tell you here in case somebody goes and destroys their windows setup by unticking the wrong stuff. However one thing you can do is remove everything from the 'Startup' folder in the Start Menu, anything that's in there really doesn't need to be.
Defragment your harddisks.
This isn't something you need to do religiously, once every 3 to 6 months is normally good enough, basically over time from normal use parts of individual files can get split up over the space of your entire disk. IE, when you first install Windows onto a new harddisk everything on the disk will be in a sequential order. IE: No fragmentation. Now if you open a file in the middle of the disk, add a letter or two to the end, that letter or two means that the file is now too big for the space it's currently in, so half of the file is left in that space and the rest if dumped at the end of the disk. Over time this causes problems as your hard disk has to access all over the disk in order to open a file, causing slowdowns.
Close all programs that dont need to be running.
It might sound simple, that's because it is. Your computer only has so much processing power, RAM (memory), etc. The more stuff you have open the more stuff is battling it out for those precious CPU cycles down to every last bit of RAM, this will inevitably cause buffering in your sequencer. If you don't need it to produce, close it. |
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| Excellent little guide you got there Infamy. I haven't defraged my hard disks in FOREVER. |
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A few more tips for win XP:
* set the visual settings in system set up to
"optimal performance". note that this this will disable most user defined visual settings, but if are anything like me, you could not care less for that. this helps a bit.
* in system set up under > "advanced options" >"advanced options" (again):
make sure time processing planing is set to "programs" and not "background services"
and that memory usage is set to "programs" and not "system cache".
click on the "virtual memory"> change tab and check the set memory size. you have a minimal value, a recommended value and a maximum value. usually by default this is set to recommended value. If you ever have gotten a message while working that not enough virtual memory is available anymore, that`s where your problem is. click "user defined size" and type in the maximal allowed value. |
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| make sure time processing planing is set to "programs" and not "background services" |
Maybe I should point this out....
Change Processor Scheduling to 'Background Services'
Navigate to the Advanced page of the System applet. Click on the Performance Settings button, select its Advanced tab and click on 'Background Services' for Processor Scheduling.
For anyone using ASIO drivers (and nowadays that includes just about every PC musician), this is the most essential tweak of all, because ASIO drivers run as background services in Windows. Music software and hardware developers Steinberg rely on this setting to ensure low latency without dropouts, and you may be able to run your audio interface at a significantly lower latency after this tweak.
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| magic wrote: |
| make sure time processing planing is set to "programs" and not "background services" |
Maybe I should point this out....
Change Processor Scheduling to 'Background Services'
Navigate to the Advanced page of the System applet. Click on the Performance Settings button, select its Advanced tab and click on 'Background Services' for Processor Scheduling.
For anyone using ASIO drivers (and nowadays that includes just about every PC musician), this is the most essential tweak of all, because ASIO drivers run as background services in Windows. Music software and hardware developers Steinberg rely on this setting to ensure low latency without dropouts, and you may be able to run your audio interface at a significantly lower latency after this tweak.
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Thanks mate,...
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Thanks mate,...
you are right, I got that one the other way around. |
No worries mate, it's an easy mistake to make, especially when everything is concentrated on getting the 'programs' to run at their most effective. I've been confused by it, and questioned (a few times) why Background Services is the one we have to select. Then again, the 'non-music' related background services have had a trim, so it's right to give priority to the things we need the most reliability, but we don't really see the 'background' stuff working in front of us.
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Thanks guys. This is a really helpful discussion. As the majority if not all of us use our pc's/laptops for aduio us I think I'll sticky this.
Once again thanks for the useful tips.
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| another good tips to speed up win xp put the virtual memory in another drive, and u win 25 % |
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| i'm glad i'm on this site,very informative..thanks guys |
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Good link, I've seen the site before, but lost the link. |
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| This is very interested method |
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