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In Reply to: RE: The Big Substitutions TWEAK posted by steppe on January 19, 2012 at 21:09:42
Who knows what the problem was?
This time no complaints at all.
Substituted all in three operations. No problems at all.
I do think it sounds better. I was becoming skeptical due to my frustration with the win2k shell32 refusing to work. But now I can see what you are talking about. Yet another increase in clarity and good tone.
Found the reason I could not do some of the registry deletions - I had had /minint in the boot.ini before and took it out when you said I should. I put it back in since it was the only difference in the two set-ups (between h55 and h61) and deletions stay deleted.
My WINDOWS folder is now 23,076,605 bytes. Config - 416kB.
I still have some RESOURCE HACKING to do but I see no way I will get the folder below 20mB. A few more items to be removed in the config, too.
I do, and had been, getting a blue screen that can show up at any time. It could be fifteen minutes or hours, no rhyme or reason. It could be (still) because of my BIOS settings or some other setting, Says something about paging area - I will write it down next time. Not a big problem. Starts right back up.
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I did 4 or 5 files from w2k and the result was very good sonically. Then with the Steppe files I basically substituted only those files which showed a large (> 50kb) size reduction for everything in my system32 folder. I did it in 3 steps. Only major files I did not do was shell32 and winspool. The sonics progressively got softer (not in a bad way), almost as if a tube stage was introduced into my system. The negatives in sonics: deep bass lost a little punch and extension, soundstage and depth shrunk a little. The positives in sonics: just like in tubes the mids and upper mids and highs became mellower/sweeter (more sweet?). So it depends where you are in the spectrum of on the one side of tight/crisp all the way through mellow/sweet on the other end of the spectrum that in my opinion will determine what and how much of these substitutions you might like. I found a good balance for me/my system. I probably did all but maybe 4 or 5 files including those mentioned above. All in all a very worthwhile tweak...thank you Serge!
The first was session manager - memory. This one is session manager itself.
Serge
I will try these registry settings. I have a very different session manager - memory. I forgot to mention that I got no BSOD's as Rick did. Rick did you get these while booting or while listening to music?
accompanied by a squeal!
Booting is never a problem.
I think I just finished getting the last of what I know I can eliminate from the registry (thanks to Mihaylov on both counts due to /minint and his original road map) and after using the compressor my config is 398 kB.
Now to see if the problem re-occurs. It is annoying but not alarming, other than the squeal! Starts right back up after an incident.
By the way, WHERE is Mihaylov?
As far as sonics I suspect my complete happiness (for the moment until the ear/brain wants more of something to keep the charade of music reproduction interesting) is my use of horn loudspeakers. Softening is never a problem with horns!
There may be softening but unlike some tube softening there is more information making its way through the electronic maze.
Also, at this point I think I can safely say with no qualms that the H61 board Jack Wong recommended is truly superior to the H55. For those wanting to get a little closer this should be procured.
Ted if you want the chips removed I would gladly do it.
I increased the IO thing to 20000 and there was one more that was different on the second suggestion.
Now to give it a try!
Thanks!
nt
Rick! When I was doing deletions according to your hives I have noticed a setting, I thought was strange - that is clear page cache or smth on shutdown. As cmp is using rpc, the system may have too little time to clear this cache and it is trying to restore the cache settings (not lost completely in the previous session) prior to booting. I think it's the legacy of nt 3,5 or 4. I remember from my printshop business times, if ever you abort a print job and force reboot, nt4 would restart with the spooler full and retrying a print job. Try to find this setting and remove (set to 0) in the system hive session manager, IIRC.
Serge.
It's here, I hope
ClearPageFileAtShutdown
It is in MEMORY MANAGEMENT.
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