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Originally Posted by kaze  i found this for vista... Audio Forums
i don't think anything has been posted for vista yet... |
Fortunately there has not been posted anything for Vista, because most of them "optimization" guides contain utter nonsense and are outright wrong, including the one you linked to, sorry.
Generally on a modern PC there is only one tweak that you
may consider: Turning off Superfetch to save upto 100 mb RAM and keep the HD from constantly loading data into the cache (noise and head-movement).
Aero
can be problematic if your DAW is not Vista aware (like Ableton Live), because it uses the same priority as audio and midi threads. Turning your DAW's priority to "Realtime" most often is the better solution though (the best would be for the DAW to use MMCSS like Sonar does).
Regardless of whether you are using XP or Vista most of the time you want to
use "Background" processing only when you are using more than one audio application at a time.
When you are running a single audio application as foreground process then you usually want to use "Programs". Audio and midi drivers are threads that are
part of the foreground audio application process. Usually these use a fixed priority of 15 and thus ain't affected by this setting anyway. Usually only the main/GUI thread of a DAW is affected. This is a "try it yourself" setting, that most of the times makes no difference anyway.
By default Vista's scheduler is set to do a HD defrag run every Wednesday night 1 am as far as I remember. This shouldn't be a problem even when you are doing a session at that time, but it's good to know about if anything problematic turns up. You can delete that schedule easily anyway.