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Originally posted by Magnus Thanks for the tips RANN. I'm surprised however that one of the main tweaks for getting the most out of XP, the /3GB switch option, was not mentioned. With it, I can push Cubase much further before crashing using this option as it pushes XP's address space for processes to 3GB instead of the normal 2GB. HERE is a great article detailing how to do it. Also MrJiveBoJingles gives great advice on using no antivirus. Not using such a resource hog has personally made some of the most siginifigant impact on performance. Your production PC should be isolated from the internet anyway so there is really no need for such software.

Nice! I'd heard about that one a little while ago but never did it and totally forgot.

so just to keep it all in one thread:

Enabling 3GB switch on Windows XP or Windows Vista

Many of Autodesk's applications, including Navisworks, are able to take advantage of the 3GB functionality switch.

Advanced users may know that the virtual address space of processes and applications is still limited to 2 GB unless the /3GB switch is used in the Boot.ini file. When the physical RAM in the system exceeds 16 GB and the /3GB switch is used, the operating system will ignore the additional RAM until the /3GB switch is removed. This is because of the increased size of the kernel required to support more Page Table Entries.

Note: Only applications that use IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE in the process header can take advantage of this functionality.

Enable the 3GB switch on Windows XP

Right-click My Computer. Click Properties.
In the System Properties dialog box, click the Advanced tab.
On the Advanced tab, under Startup and Recovery, click Settings.
In the Startup and Recovery dialog box, under System startup, click Edit. The Windows boot.ini file will be opened in Microsoft® Notepad.
Create a backup copy of the boot.ini file. Note: Boot.ini files may vary from computer to computer.
Select the following line in the boot.ini file:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

Press Ctrl+C to copy the line and then press Ctrl+V to paste it immediately below the original line.
Note: Your text string may be different from the text string in this solution, so be sure to copy the text string from your boot.ini file, and not the text string included here.
Modify the copied line to include “ /3GB”, as shown in the following example:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 3GB" /3GB /fastdetect

Note: Do not overwrite any existing lines.

Save and close the boot.ini file.
Click OK to close each dialog box.
Restart your computer.
During startup, select the 3GB option. If you do not select the 3GB option, the system will default to the 2GB total memory setting.
Note: If problems occur during startup, you may need to update some of your drivers.

Enable the 3GB switch on Windows Vista

Right-click Command Prompt in the Accessories program group of the Start menu. Click Run as Administrator.
At the command prompt, enter "bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072"
Restart the computer.
Disable the 3GB switch on Windows Vista

Right-click on Command Prompt in the Accessories program group of the Start menu. Click Run as Administrator.
At the command prompt, enter "bcdedit /deletevalue IncreaseUserVa"
Restart the computer.


As for the antivirus issue, I do agree, and in an ideal world, the production PC is never connected to the internet and an external drive or USB key or non commercial disc is ever installed, but honestly, for a lot of people that just not an option. My advice is to use a program that is incredibly skinny in terms of mem usage and system resources in case you can't live without antivirus.

My personal recommendation Eset Nod 32 - out of all of them it's the least of a hog in terms of RAM and CPU and you can set it so it just monitors when a drive is inserted or you are connected to the net - the rest of the time it will take less than 1% cpu.

thanks!!

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http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=30162

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This has extensively been discussed in this thread: http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=15923 so you can all look it up for additional info, solutions etc. This second Windows XP SP3 AO build is not very different from the first one, but includes some important stuff and updates like: - wireless network is working - firewall is working - all post SP3 fixes, including the december 2008. ones, see the list here: http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/updatepack-sp3.html There are some rather important fixes for multiprocessor PC`s. I`ve been waiting for this, therefore such a delay prior to releasing this build. - Intel, NVidia and AMD AHCI drivers - most of the EU keyboards and regional settings, including UK and US. What it doesn`t include is: general BS, bloat, spam, unnecessary BS, WM Player, Internet Explorer etc. However, this build is much larger than the previous build and weights whooping 300MB, so I had to split the archive into two, because Rapidshare caps the uploads at 200MB. Shame. I`m not sure why it`s so much bigger, but I`m assuming it`s mostly because of the post SP3 fixes. If that`s the case, I don`t regret it being 100MB bigger. So here it is, the first part of the self extracting RAR archive: [[ LINK REMOVED ]] and here is the second part: [[ LINK REMOVED ]] Here`s nLite settings INI file for those who want to tweak the XP installation by themselves: [[ LINK REMOVED ]] I left the "Out of the box experience" in, so it should be "authorisable". I`m trying to stay on the legal side of things as much as possible, as I don`t want Cockos to have any troubles regarding this, some would say "crippled" Windows XP. One warning for the users who are not very proficient with Windows: this Windows installation is mostly intended for experienced or advanced Windows users, not so much because of the way the installation goes - it`s even easier to install it than the default one, but because of the way this Windows look and behave. It looks quite different to your usual default installation and it`s tweaked after my subjective opinions and from my long time experience using Windows for audio and multimedia in general. Most of the tweaking done, you should find on any Windows that a proficient Windows user that is into audio and video is using and inexperienced users could easily have many problems with this OS, as nothing is hidden "under the rug" you can delete important files by accident and stuff like that. In other words - if you don`t know what regedit.exe is, stay away, or be at least very careful with what you`re doing and you`ll be rewarded with a great and fast OS that XP can be when tweaked and cut in the right places. Last thing... Happy Christmas, happy holidays, get nicely pissed... I wish you all good luck, lots of love and patience for your loved ones, some money and excellent health! To your families, and loved ones, too. Links update for those who don't like Rapidshare. Coerce was so kind to provide mirror links on his FTP server. Thank you so much, man! This is the ISO Image file you need http://FallofArcadia.com/Reaper/WXPSP3AO.iso burn it with Nero, ImgBurn or whatever you use, just don't do it at grater than 4x speed, because there's a possibility that such CDs won't boot normally. and here's the link to the INI nLite settings file if you want to do a customised version of your own Windows XP with nLite and most of my settings: http://fallofarcadia.com/Reaper/wxpsp3ao2.ini Just "save as" with the right mouse button to your nLite installation folder.

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Can you do a tutorial for Windows 7?

I did about half of these and it helps a lot. Ableton uses close to 3gb of ram before crashing.

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