I found that Sonar became infinitely more stable for me after I set up a separate user account dedicated to audio work. This second user account has no startup programs, no automatic file syncing going on and as much crap disabled as possible.

 
I don't know much and I've never heard that or thought of it but it sounds like a great idea... I'm going to do that. Did you have to reinstall everything or just point import it to the new acct? OR what...
 
Thanks for a great sounding idea!
 
J

jbow

I found that Sonar became infinitely more stable for me after I set up a separate user account dedicated to audio work. This second user account has no startup programs, no automatic file syncing going on and as much crap disabled as possible.

 
I don't know much and I've never heard that or thought of it but it sounds like a great idea... I'm going to do that. Did you have to reinstall everything or just point import it to the new acct? OR what...
 
Thanks for a great sounding idea!
 
J

When you create a new user account, all of the same programs and apps are available to you. But you can have different Windows settings, for instance you can disable the Aero theme, or you can turn off your antivirus. Basically it's like having a new computer, except that you have access to the same programs and files as the other user account. 


If you open your C: drive,  you'll see a folder called "Users." In this folder you'll see folders for all of your user accounts. In each of those user account folders, there are separate folders for documents, the desktop, downloads, pictures, videos etc. So one thing to remember is, if like me you have your "My documents" and "My Pictures" and "Downloads" folders located on your data partition instead of the system partition, you'll have to relocate these folders again for the new user account, otherwise they'll be on the C: partition by default. You may of course wish to have separate photo/download/document folders for the new user account, but I like both user accounts to share those folders. It's real easy to set up. 


Here's a quick guide: 


http://www.pcworld.com/ar...sers_in_windows_7.html

Beepster


Can we please ban this abusive lunatic? I'm getting sick of his crap.

I reported him (Heroidcs) before I left the thread -  pretty strongly also.
Obviously no one is listening. That was days ago.

In Windows 8 there are Libraries that will consolidate all like folders. For example if you have more than one documents folder located on various disks Win 8 will create a library which points to all the documents in all the folders from place. Of course one can exempt a folder being placed in the library. Its an enormous time saver.   

Thanks Sharke. I am going to do that tomorrow. Run that user with it always offline, no anti-virus, all the regular tweaks I use like no sounds, set to background services etc. I put all three of the links for W7 tweaks in a Favorites folder. When I looked at them it looked like I already pretty much use the Focusrite tweaks. Black Adder has a LOT, probably not needed. I have an e-sata port and am going to get a case that I can swap HDs in to use for projects and one for backup. I was thinking... what if I installed X2 and all the things I use with it, synths, midi, etc on that external drive and just run it all on that drive... I wonder if that would be something that would make a difference, especially if I set up a barebones user ID for it. Thinking outloud... My internal drive is a 500G 7200 RPM but I have not pushed it at all. I guess if I hit bumps I will do whatever I have to do. I am glad I read this thread. I've been wanting a Studiocat as a dedicated machine but something always seems to jump up and take the money. The time will come tough.
 
Thanks for all the help! You too Bub. (I know you're a good guy)...
 
BTW.. I sure do wish I had been paying attention when W8 was 40 bucks... I hope the price drops soon... and sharply.
 
Julien

jbow


Thanks Sharke. I am going to do that tomorrow. Run that user with it always offline, no anti-virus, all the regular tweaks I use like no sounds, set to background services etc. I put all three of the links for W7 tweaks in a Favorites folder. When I looked at them it looked like I already pretty much use the Focusrite tweaks. Black Adder has a LOT, probably not needed. I have an e-sata port and am going to get a case that I can swap HDs in to use for projects and one for backup. I was thinking... what if I installed X2 and all the things I use with it, synths, midi, etc on that external drive and just run it all on that drive... I wonder if that would be something that would make a difference, especially if I set up a barebones user ID for it. Thinking outloud... My internal drive is a 500G 7200 RPM but I have not pushed it at all. I guess if I hit bumps I will do whatever I have to do. I am glad I read this thread. I've been wanting a Studiocat as a dedicated machine but something always seems to jump up and take the money. The time will come tough.
 
Thanks for all the help! You too Bub. (I know you're a good guy)...
 
BTW.. I sure do wish I had been paying attention when W8 was 40 bucks... I hope the price drops soon... and sharply.
 
Julien

I'm not sure, but I think you're limited in certain things that you can do. For instance, I don't think you can turn your internet connection to be off in one account and on in another. I'm pretty sure I tried that when I first did it. I'm also not sure about setting different service profiles. I always hated how you couldn't just save a service profile so that you could have different ones for gaming, audio etc. You would think there would be an app which let you set up and save service profiles but I cannot find one. However, I did read in a couple of places that you don't get much of a performance boost by disabling services, and that even when you disable the ones that the service guide labels as "unnecessary," you can set yourself up for all kinds of issues in the future because you never know what kind of hardware or software you're going to end up installing that might depend on one of these services. You might find that something you install doesn't work properly because of some "unnecessary" service you turned off months ago. So I just leave them all on. 

With regard to the external drives, I don't think you will enjoy any benefits from installing X2 on another drive. Your system drive is there to run apps off, it won't be any faster or efficient or trouble free on an external drive because the program will still be accessing exactly the same files - no more, no less. You'd be far better off using that external drive to record audio onto, or stream samples off of. 

this was handled very nicely guys,the troll came,he was ignored,with no one to fight with,he left and then this thread turned into a resource for new ideas.
a nice way of working it to our advantage.

I think what Heroics was referring to in his reply to me was the fact that there was no name as to who I was replying to in my post ... maybe?

John


In Windows 8 there are Libraries that will consolidate all like folders. For example if you have more than one documents folder located on various disks Win 8 will create a library which points to all the documents in all the folders from place. Of course one can exempt a folder being placed in the library. Its an enormous time saver.   

Just for the record, that's a Windows 7 thing as well and yes it is a great idea.

Please do not stop or uninstall antivirus. Just exclude cake folders and folders Microsoft recommends for exclusion (sorry you need to Google this) from real time antivirus scans. You should not need to disable internet either (this is really old school) unless your PC is underpowered.