While you wait for one of the XP gurus to weigh in, here's a link to some info about tweaking XP for audio recording. If you google "tweak XP audio" you'll get a fair number of hits. The one I posted is just the first one I found, not necessarily the best one available. As Noel suggested, there are things you can do to eliminate a lot of known system bottlenecks


http://www.thefxcode.com/audio/tweakxp.htm