[BNM] turning off all unwanted services for a user in XP

[Barry Bloye]

Yeah, the dual-boot method seems to be the only way to go with Windows
if you want to avoid audio glitches. It's a pain, but got simpler
since XP appeared as it caters for such things (hiding partitions,
anyone?). You'd probably need to repartition your hard disk, though,
which requires 3rd party software if you don't want to start from
scratch. :s

As Jim said, the Sound on Sound forums are a great place to find
others' experiences of similar issues.

Cheers,
Baz


On 19/07/06, james wrote:
> yes and no si, audio types go round in circles with this one, it's easy
> enough to turn off third party apps but windows services are a bit of a
> minefield
>
> one path many take is to do a dual boot setup, an install of winxp for audio
> apps and then an install for everything else
>
> the best solution is a separate machine for audio, depending on how serious
> you are about music, and it's the only one i find workable
>
> and with pc prices so low these days it's not quite as extravagant as it
> sounds!
>
> anyhoo, you'll find lots of help in the forums here
>
> http://www.soundonsound.com/forum
>
> hth
> jim
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Early"
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:48 AM
> Subject: [BNM] turning off all unwanted services for a user in XP
>
>
> I want to set up Cubase on my PC under a new user, but I dont want all the
> usual crap to switch on, like apache,ACT,MYSQL,Outlook etc - not even the
> background stuff.
>
> Is there any way to start up the PC in this user configuration and cancel
> all the "office"/dev stuff so its just doing music things? - without it
> affecting the other users on this machine, ie when i switch into the
> "normal" user (me) all the crap comes back automatically?
>
> ie cubase user has no crap, other users get all normal crap.
>
> cheers,
> s./