Re: tuning your pc to eliminate stuttering from Jaws:
- From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:27:45 -0500
I have noticed that disabling services judiciously is cheaper than adding
more ram which may or may not fix the problem as you indicate.
Johnnie Apple Seed
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From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:19 PM
Subject: RE: tuning your pc to eliminate stuttering from Jaws:
I think disabling services is too dangerous to be considered good advice
for tuning. It's much safer, if you don't have adequate memory (say 512
mb), to first add memory. More than likely, the only thing with a high
enough priority to interrupt a sound driver so that it causes your sound
card to studder, is another device driver. This in turn is most likely
to be the hard disk as it uses disk swapping in place of insufficient
memory. If you do have sufficient memory, then check to see if you have
any background tasks that are disk-intensive (such as a scheduled
anti-virus check of your entire HD).
Hth,
Chip
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> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of david poehlman
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 6:52 PM
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> Subject: tuning your pc to eliminate stuttering from Jaws:
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> I'm going to make two assumptions:
> 1> you are running windows xp;
> 2> you have a sound card that is adaquate for your task and a=20
> solid pc.
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> The problem of stuttering results when the pc is trying to do=20
> too many things with too little work space. To fix this, go=20
> to services in xp and disable any services you don't need or=20
> at least set them to manual. There are lots of places to=20
> find out what the services are and what they do.
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> Find out what is in your system tray and decide whether or=20
> not it is something you have to have running. All the player=20
> stuff can go. Anti=20
> virus and firewall stuff needs to stay. any stuff that just=20
> sits there so=20
> you can start a program faster can go. In some instances,=20
> you can right click on an item in the systray and find the=20
> configuration and fix it there.=20
> Some times, you'll need to go into the program its self and=20
> find its preferences/options/configuration controlls and do=20
> it there. The key is to manually go through this and set it=20
> up so that you don't have to set it up again if something=20
> causes it to relaunch as it might if you use msconfig or use=20
> ms config and do a system restore or install another program=20
> that decides it needs to load something. Another thing that=20
> happens with ms config is that if you update the application,=20
> the settings that are made through ms config are not retained.
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> Johnnie Apple Seed
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