Just reinstalled windoze and......

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:01 am

my PC would have to be at least 20% faster

I installed Win SP2, NortonAV, Live 5+Operator, Waves platinum, Antares Filter and autotune, melodyne, microtonic and an audio editor (goldwave) and I'm sorted. My Drive isn't reading DVDs any more so I cant install NI Komplete, but apart from loadin up old tracks I'm not even sure I miss it at all.

Since L3 I've been getting the feeling alot of my other stuff was on the way out but now with L5 and Oper8r I think that day may have come.

The Revrend · Post by **The Revrend** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:26 pm

I'm curious why you bothered to run Norton AV (something I have seen cause serious performance hits, and if you're not installing potentially unsafe software **warez** cough, or accessing teh interweb with it, it is completely unnecessary.

Re the CDR/DVD Drive. I know with mine, that it slides out a bit and looses connections, if I press the door in firmly it will actually slide in about 3/4 of a mm and after I reboot my CDR/DVD Drive is back. Just a thought.

Rev

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:54 am

I do go on the net with it and I'm a believer you should be able to - I know alot of people swear blind you should keep your daw off but I worked in a commercial studio for a few years where their machines were and they rarely had problems and I havent really noticed a performance hit with NAV - but you can always go off line and disable it....

I still do work from them which totally relies on sending files via broadband and it would be a HUGE pain in the arse to do it without a connection and i dont really see any reason not to.

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:56 am

Oi forge, reformat your machine (only way to truely eradicate/piss off Norton products) and once you get your system all patched up and happy, get a program called Deepfreeze.

You PC will run even better then and will never ever corrupt again.

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:08 am

deep freeze eh? where might one find that??

I actually did something which is a big no no and reinstalled onto the same partition into a new folder (windows 2) mainly because I didnt want to lose the data (it was an emergency meaure) and so far it's running really well!

I also have the added bonus of still being able to run old apps tha run without reinstalling them