As far as I am aware the tweaks that you mention were popular to help free up system resources when computers were not powerful enough to run very demanding audio applications, but modern computers usually don't have that problem. I have anti virus everything on my windows 7 33 bit machine and it runs fine with any audio application I have tried so far.

The other way you could do it is have a dual boot machine which I have, as 2 instances of windows 7 will run no problem on different partitions or drives no problems with activation etc, but would mean restarting your computer when you wanted to go into normal no audio mode.

Of course you will be able to set the default os that you want to boot from if you just want to switch your computer on and then just walk away and let it boot (or choose the windows 7 installation that you want to start when it appears on screen at boot time)

hope this might be a solution to you.

musiclover

Last edited by musiclover; 10/29/11 04:21 PM.

Musiclover

My music https://www.youtube.com/user/donegalprideofall

Windows 10 (64bit) M-Audio Fast Track Pro, Band in a Box 2025, Cubase 14, Cakewalk and far too many VST plugins that I probably don't need or will ever use smile