After 15 years

[The Dong]

I have finally got a DAW set up that works at potential. (windows)
After a brief journey into about 20 different Linux distros, both studio 
and normal versions, a few of those are selected to keep for maintenance 
and office applications. Just not ready for DAW imho. Too messy.

Still XP (SP3 final now) for me.
I have now managed (my god) to get 1.5ms latency with the Hammerfall 
running multiple softsynths in Live, it works, but I've set it on 3ms 
with higher latencies than that not making much difference.
Of course, XP audio still glitches slightly no matter what you do if you 
minimise the main DAW window, just don't do it ;)
There may be a way to fix that too, I hope.

I used nLite to create two stripped out versions of XP SP3.
One I made less than half the original install size and still has 
Network support, for general surfing, scanning, art etc.
It flies!
Then, I nLited that one after much testing, to remove nearly everything, 
including most networking connected stuff. There are only 18 services 
left. The image is of processes running from boot, with all drivers 
installed and their gubbins removed from start up. I could try going 
further, but I think a lot of what is left is core...
It still needed services disabled and various known tweaks applied after 
install even after all that.

Two XP installs, minimal and Studio :)
Linux on a separate partition for Office, scanning and art and also to 
maintain the windows installs (easy backups, jeezus)

How long will it last? :)

A bit too late for RPM tho :(






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