[realmusicians] Re: clean up on win7

  • From: Indigo <33indigo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:16:54 -0500

Thanks, DJX!
This is the useful stuff I love to get.
Some of this I had heard about, like I already had the page file at a fixed size in my old daw, not managed automatically. I'll have to go where you directed in the new machine and select no page file, instead of size zero.
Thanks,
Indigo L

On 11/23/2011 11:28 PM, D!J!X! wrote:
You are correct, for windows xp, if you've got more than a gig, you can
safely turn off pf. For vista, more than 3gb. For win7, 2gb for 32bits, 4 or
more for 64bits.
Turning off the pf competely is the way to go, do this by going to
system>advanced, then performance>memory, uncheck the automatically manage
paging file box, then highlight the main drive, then set it to "no paging
file" from the 3 radio buttons.
In XP, just go to system>advanced>Paging file, and select the radio button
after highlighting the correct drive.

If you must use a paging file, another good way to speed up is to set an
actual size, a fixed number, as oppose to letting the OS manage it...

HTH, D!J!X!

-----Original Message-----
From: realmusicians-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:realmusicians-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Indigo
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 11:21 PM
To: realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [realmusicians] Re: clean up on win7

I heard the page file slows down a daw, so I selected zero as page file
size, and my new machine really seemed to go faster afterward.
I've read that the page file was only good if you have not enough ram, since
the hard drive is so much slower than ram.
I think it's true, since I tried sselecting zero for the page file on my
slow old machine, with inadequate ram onboard, and it got much slower, so I
had to revert to the original page file size, then it speeded back up to
what it was.
Indigo L

On 11/23/2011 10:57 PM, Chris Belle wrote:
A good imaging program will let you delete your page file and other
space hoggers too.

YOur doin the right thing Ross, a disk imaging is never wasted time,
and you will thank your prevention method is something goes swrong.

it's saved my butt more times than i can count.


At 09:34 PM 11/23/2011, you wrote:
Hi Tom, Indigo and d j x.
Thanks for the info.

Yes we grabbed c clean and did all that.

I'm about to make a new image of my win7 32 disk and wanted to clean
it up before imaging.

Ross.


-----Original Message-----
From: realmusicians-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:realmusicians-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Kingston
Sent: Wednesday, 23 November 2011 12:01 PM
To: realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [realmusicians] Re: clean up on win7

Yep. I usually clear out everything in the internet cache, run disk
cleanup, then defrag. Windows 7 defrag can be scheduled, but I don't
know if it's on by default. Mine wasn't. And I didn't turn it on
because I like to clean house and then defrag.

And I just downloaded and ran CCleaner last week for something; I
can't remember what now. But it did the job.

Tom


On 11/22/2011 7:00 PM, Chris Belle wrote:
I think the same disk clean up tools are still available in w7 huh?

If I remember right.


At 03:48 PM 11/22/2011, you wrote:
Hi Folks,
Was wondering what peeps are using to clean up and problem check
under win 7.
I'm using MSE. I used to use jkdfrag and c clean on xp.

So are peeps using any tools like that under win 7? I believe win
7 does it's own defrag, so one like jkdfrag isn't so needed.

Any Suggestions, be appreciated.

Ross.


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