Well, becarefull what you disable, from what you told me awhile back about your system, it sounds like it should handle much without budging. Check in device manager, go to view and select resources by type, then look in IRQ (long list for 64bit OS). If there are any IRQ lanes being shared with your audio interface (since you have a firewire device, you're interested in your firewire controller). If anything is sharing an IRQ with it, disable anything else on that channel (if you can of course). If you can't, if firewire is not on the motherboard but on a PCI/PCIE slot, try moving it around to another slot (be carefull with this). If the firewire controller is the only thing on that specific channel, then you are ok. Disabling anything that you won't need won't really help. A lot of new applications are requiring a present ethernet adapter to even open (because they know you'll need one to register), to avoid piracy and such. So don't disable it from the bios. Are you having probs with your system? Or are you just doing this just because. D!J!X! -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Smart Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 12:00 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: [blindwindows7] How do I check my firewall is on Hi DJX. no reason other than building a profile for audio work that has anything I don't need disabled. internet connection for example. thanks for the info. Chris PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq