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I have used the same PC for several years now it had word processing, e-mail, and every thing else under the sun along with my DAW. I can not believe what a difference it made to format and install a clean windows XP Pro, and just my DAWs. The old gal rocks.



B4, I invest in more 'upgrade' hardware, I will try the same. I do have the entire Office Pro Suite, Entire Open Office Suite, FrontPage and Extensions, MS Visio (Graphic designs), Google Sketchup (3D Cad-Cam), FP Extensions w/IIS hosting running. My DAW is doubling for my Tech support services my wife & I do for spare change.

When, I'm doing HBVS (Home Based Virtual Studio) I go to the Services MMC & "disable" & "Stop" as many services as possible (Indexing, IIS, etc). Then, run my DAW stuff.

I'm thinking, though stopped, there may still be resources (fragmented RAM segment:offsets, Hooks, Handles, etc) that don't recover..."memory leakage". Yeah, a lot of stuff installed on this PC#1 though, not in use. Something, I can try B4 I go HW upgrading.

In the interim, I'll be running a compatibility tool to see how much my current HW IS compatible to Win7- just in case I go that route later on.
Tnx for sharing the experience.

"Everyday-Life changes, Sets get rearranges, & ALL the players change their costumes", Geo Benson's "New Day" (Shakespeare Paraphrase) * "Is all that we see or seem but dreams within dreams?" -Poe