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It's possible. I did have iTunes running on my new system for a while, because Cycling 74 Hipno requires Quicktime, and for a while I couldn't find the standalone quicktime installer, but has to installed both iTunes and Qicktime. Now I only have Quicktime installed. I've been doing a lot of research and tweaking on my new ThinkPad, with msconfig. I basically researched every single startup item and service that loads with the system, and determined which were un-necessary for for music performance. Hence, before I play, I know how to go into msconfig and use the selective startup option to uncheck those items and services. I wish you could save msconfig settings. I have to manually do this each time, and creating a new user profile on XP doesn't help, because many of the services and program are super-user, system wide, not based on user. But.....with that streamlined startup and the normal startup, I really can't tell a difference in performance. I mean, I have 2gig of RAM and massive processing power. When I do control-alt-delete and look at those processes running in the background, they memory and processing they take up is miniscule. So, I'm not really making a big deal out of creating a clean startup config now....maybe on my old notebook that has a slower processor and less memory, but not this one. The iTunes thing could have been a problem though. Morever, I believe I've done everything else noted in the URL you provided below. Kris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Art Simon" <simart@gmail.com> To: "Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com" <loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 8:49 PM Subject: More on Snap, Crackle, Pop: iTunes and audio Latency > I'm wondering if this had anything to do with Krispen's audio > problems. I was reading about tweaking Windows XP and came across > this: > > >http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jake/20050225_optimize_your_pc_for_audio_and_video.html > > "Several applications are known to run in the background even when you > don't have them open. This consumes extra memory that could be > dedicated to your video or audio project. The software companies do > this so the apps load faster when you click on them, but you don't > want extra stuff running during processor and memory intensive media > projects. One common culprit is iTunes, which runs two helper apps in > the background waiting to launch if you dock your iPod (even if you > don't own one) or click on a music file." > > Sure enough, I opened my Windows Task Manager and stopped iTunes, and > I was able to run the same patches in EnergyXT one buffer size smaller > with no glitches. Warren also commented earlier on how iTunes messed > up his system, did it have anything to do with this? anyway to avoid > this without uninstalling iTunes? > -- > Art Simon > simart@null.net > http://art.simon.tripod.com > http://www.myspace.com/artsimon > >