Ron,

Uae of the decrapifier program *when the machine is still new* is a good thing.

That said, the days of Win95, W98, W2000, etc. where we often had to perform various and sundry "tweaks" to a system in which we intended to do music and audio work are almost over. *GRIN*

Since the release of XP SP2 and forward, I have found very little of that sort of tweaking needed in advance of any problem you may encounter and so I don't recommend trying to do any tweaks like that unless and until you discover a certain problem and research it thoroughly enough to ascertain if said tweak is truly necessary to do - or will even solve the problem at hand.

For PGMusic softwares, the only holdover from those dark days of tweaking Win98 etc. is the Drivers issue.

Making certain that you have downloaded the *LATEST* drivers for your soundcard and video are about the only two things I recommend doing before any particular problem actually appears in front of you that may be a showstopper. The disk that comes included with most aftermarket Sound Devices is likely to be very old code indeed, although I may use one for an Install I will immediately head to the website support section of its mfr and locate and download the latest drivers for my system and update those immediately - always followed by a reboot first before trying to run the music program on it.

The fact that we no longer have to perform a long list of tweaks to the system in order to get music making work done on the machine is a Good Thing IMO.

But I remember way back when we had to even disable the taskbar clock in Win95 or risk it creating audio stream interruptions...


--Mac

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