Re: Startup Apps for Laptop Loopers - streamline performance, etc

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 11 okt 2007, at 17.47, Krispen Hartung wrote:

> I would be curious to know what other folks are using. Has anyone  
> found an app like AutoRuns that allows you to save multiple  
> configurations

I used to tweak quite a lot of system settings in Windows 95 and got  
much better performance out of the machines. But when XP arrived and  
computers got faster there wasn't really much need of doing that,  
except for tweaking of some background services. But I did not use an  
application to do this every time I started the machine. Instead I  
set up the machine with different bootable system partitions, each  
one hidden and thus not visible from the others (since this is not  
really possible with unhidden partition. So the partition I chose to  
boot from launched a system that truly believed that it owned control  
of the complete hardware. And the music partition had of course no  
virus protection software or network drivers installed, only pure  
intel power. That solution is much faster, compared to booting the  
machine and having to start killing off background services.

In this way I used PC's for audio work in a recording studio context  
between 2000 and 2003. Since 2003 I have been using Macs (except for  
a pc lappy for Mobius).

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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