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In Reply to: RE: A great find and post - thank you very much, but ... posted by rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com on December 12, 2011 at 12:32:39
Just using Mario's file is a significant sq pop.
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is how I perceive it.
As with this continuing evolution beginning with Serge's idea, there is much to be gained by minimizing WINDOWS.
Went back to my non-ACPI version because the ACPI one was doing strange things. I think there must have been a problem with my install disk. Will have to try again.
Adter I got my confidence up withe RESOURCE HACKER I went through every file in system32 that had something to delete and basically deleted everything except "version" and the one's with all of the numbers. I left very few of messages and the strings and will go back and see if I can eliminate them all. I do not think they have anything to do with what happens with a cMP machine in cMP mode with no EXPLORER.
Whether being able to get rid of everything makes much of a difference in file size remains to be seen. More importantly whether that will make any sonic difference at all (after the inital slimming) is doubtful but IT MYST BE DONE!
I figured it would not work but it did. I thought I had already taken too much away.
Who knows if manipulating the other files have the any impact like shell32 since they do not show up on TASK MANAGER (when you could access TASK MANAGER) but there has to be something worthwhile to making all as small as possible.
As we near Serge's goal of a 20mB WINDOWS ...
as this process proceeds, how easy it is to tell the condition of the tape on older recordings.
Not that anyone WANTS to hear these artifacts but they do illustrate how fine the resolution has become with this decoder.
Luckily, the noises are not obtrusive, as in LP playback they are there but do not overwhelm the sound. Surely an indicator of how well behaved this system has become.
Yesss! Just this morning while listening @ 3:00am (insomniac) I noticed this and made a mental note of it.
Rick thanks for reporting this. As You wrote 'I left very few of messages and the strings and will go back and see if I can eliminate them all.'
Yeah, at least for our beloved shell this should directly lead to more and more bits of RAM savings. Because from OS engineering standpoint it makes sense, all GUI related things have to be kept in RAM, so that they can get quickly rendered when the user clicks somewhere on the screen. (and not loaded from some dll on hdd)
With other files that get loaded alongside shell and explorer it's quite the same I think. Except the dlls that are not kept always in RAM (assumption)
Mario, if You haven't deleted the registry entries for known dlls, please, open with notepad cmp/cplay exes and check, first, all the dlls that the 'perfect pair' uses from this list. Try, please, to hack them as brutally, as only You can, and next proceed to the others. Am I asking too much? I know it's not simple, but please, if you have time, do it.
Serge.
BTW, Serge Mihaylov was on a bright way to try hacking hal and kernel and, possibly gdi32 and ntdll.dll. He reports that they are being checked for integrity by windows on start up, however, hall and kernel CAN BE SUBSTITUTED for different ones with an appropriate setting in boot.ini. That's for sure, I have read it. If You are ready, I will re-find the corresponding switches for boot.ini to load different (read hacked) hal and kernel.
Serge.
Edits: 12/13/11
=I will re-find the corresponding switches for boot.ini to load different (read hacked) hal and kernel.=
Serge, what's this?
Serge.
http://cmp2-mihaylov.narod.ru/
My cMP2: Windows XP SP2 Ru, Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H, Intel Core i3-530, Corsair CM3X160C9DHX 1GB, system drive - Transcend IDE FLASH MODULE TS2GDOM40V-S, ESI Juli@, full linear PSU, NAS - WD My Book Liv
In my ramblings along different articles on boot.ini and its possible settings I have come in several places on switches that ALLOW to use a different hal and kernel for debugging? and for different "experiments" I don't remember exactly, but it's something easy, like /hal=yourhackedname.dll and /kernel=something. As it is dangerous, please, give me some time to find these switches. I also think they are at wikipedia, where I got the illbegotten /clklvl.
Serge.
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