Windows 2000 pro setup tweaks?

SHTUNOT wrote on 1/8/2002, 6:17 PM

Can someone recommend what setup they use for their daw with windows 2000pro[service pack 2]. What do you guys turn off,tweak, why/how? Any sites that I can go to for tips? I've read somewhere that Vegas is already optimized for win 2000 by its default. Is that really a good idea? Later.

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tboydva wrote on 1/8/2002, 6:28 PM

Here are some useful tweaks:

http://www.videoguys.com/Win2K_Tweaks.html

http://www.arstechnica.com/tweak/win2k/others/memory-1.html

Good luck

SHTUNOT wrote on 1/10/2002, 12:57 AM

Thanks alot for the info. Do you follow those settings by the book? What do you leave on in the startup page and what do you turn off: Control panel>Admisistrative Tools>Services. I have alot on and it seems to be taking up some memory though no cpu.Should I really be worried about this? SOFO?

By the way...Can anyone tell me how I can reserve an irq in win2k? My souncard is sharing with a few things...I also installed in standard pc mode during installation by the way. In win98se when I did that it shuffled around my components. With enough trial and error I got it to work decently. Now I'm afraid of pops and what have you. Thanks. Later.

tboydva wrote on 1/10/2002, 6:47 PM

I did a number of the changes, but didn't really go hog wild. I don't disable any of the networking components because I have a home LAN. I set Fax Service, DHCP, Remote Registry Service, and Telephony to manual. I use a small program called advanced startup manager (http://www.rayslab.com/) to get rid of all the startup crap. Hope this helps.

Tom

SHTUNOT wrote on 1/11/2002, 12:09 AM

By the way...Can anyone tell me how I can reserve an irq in win2k? My souncard is sharing with a few things...I also installed in standard pc mode during installation by the way. In win98se when I did that it shuffled around my components. With enough trial and error I got it to work decently. Now I'm afraid of pops and what have you.

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This is my biggest concern as of right now. Thanks for the responses dude. I would rather not have to shift stuff around...there's just got to be a way. Later.

tboydva wrote on 1/11/2002, 8:36 AM

Search for ACPI in this forum and the Cow.. There are instructions on disabling. As far as I can surmise, this is the only way you can manually configure IRQs.

Good luck,

T