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Someone sent me this privately: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html It's the best damn tool I've found yet for cleaning up my startup, what programs startup, services, drivers, etc. Amazing...and free. Kris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Warren Sirota" <wsirota@wsdesigns.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 3:24 PM Subject: RE: More on Snap, Crackle, Pop: iTunes and audio Latency >I haven't been following this thread - just noticed it by accident, >really. > But y'all should know about the Windows Startup Control Panel. Hunt for >it > on Google. There are about 6 different ways something can be specified to > start up on boot, and this lets you block all of them, and save your > blocks. > It's simple to use, very convenient, and free. > > My iTunes problems on Windows were more about freaking QT 7, which (a) > disabled my QT 6 Pro license forever, with no way to get it back other > thank > paying - very sleazy fashion, and (b) took over a lot of my browser's > multimedia against my will, including screwing up TIFF displays and >making > it impossible for me to browse patent office drawings (I later got a > different addin that corrected this). > > At any rate, I generally look askance at all media player upgrades - I > haven't seen one in years that actually added any technical features or > anything else useful - they're all about pushing more ads at you and > adding > more crippling DRM. I spit on them. Pyuchh... > > Best wishes, > Warren Sirota > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Per Boysen [mailto:perboysen@gmail.com] >> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 5:19 AM >> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >> Subject: Re: More on Snap, Crackle, Pop: iTunes and audio Latency >> >> >> On 11 jun 2006, at 04.49, Art Simon wrote: >> >> > 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? >> >> >> I have iTunes on both my OSX and my XP PC's. On the XP PC there are >> no extra background processes due to iTunes. But when I open >> iTunes I >> notice two extra processes: "iTunes.exe" and >> "iPodService.exe". After >> I have closed down iTunes the iPodService.exe stays active. I use >> this PC for concerts with Mobius and I wouldn't open any other >> application before I play; it's rock stable. >> >> Greetings from Sweden >> >> Per Boysen >> www.boysen.se (Swedish) >> www.looproom.com (international) >> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) >> >> >> >> > >