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In Reply to: RE: WFP (Windows File Protection) disabling batch script- the 'really' easy way! posted by taste on September 16, 2013 at 18:48:06
and then you can get rid of lots more useless stuff.
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Hi Rick,
Yes I agree, Nlite sounds very interesting. I've tinkered with it in the past but never quite worked out how to create the best stripped down image. One time I removed so much stuff, that once the image was installed, it just seem to sit there with a blank background screen and nothing else :(
Only problem is obviously a stripped down image file containing Windows could not be distributed directly. I'd be very interested if you've got some set-up scripts for Nlite configuration though?
This forum is huge so my apologies if this has all been done to conclusion in the past...
All the best,
Mark
and what you expect and I would be glad to give you my advice.
One can strip almost everything with nLite. And once you get everything running you can strip out A WHOLE LOT MORE.
But it depends on how much of a purist you are and what you are using for a sound card. At the moment I am using the WAVE-IO usb card instead of JULI@.
Well I have tried a full specked cMP machine, pretty much what cics recommended, apart from I had 2 fanless PSUs. Now it may have been to do with the PSUs, but I could never get it to match the sound of an AMD machine I had used previously.
The AMD one just outputs to a USB dac, Russ Andrews DAC 1, using AQVOX USB ASIO drivers. This is the machine I still use.
It could have been that the DACs input was more geared up for USB than COAX / Optical (has those inputs too). I also had some issues with the Juli@ and that awful breakout cable, the weight of this cable used to sometimes cause a bad connection, resulting in a sound that was a bit like Theo's distortion / metallic sound problem I suspect?
So the AMD PC is the one I still use. Even after preparing the recommended cics board and using it's USB output, I could still not match the AMD board for some reason, no idea why though! I still have both machines available to experiment with.
So the build I would need would contain no network, would use internal graphics card, no sound card, USB output to dac and I use a wireless USB keyboard with a adaptor that plugs into a USB port. Also I seem to get better results with XP SP3 than SP2. AMD unit I have can only use the first sse2 version of CPlay due to it being Athlon 64 CPU.
I do use my own software to do the software modifications, but I get variable results. Occasionally it really sings, often doesn't though. The sound also seems to 'go off' and sound a bit sloppy and vague after 5 days or so, not sure why either!?
My amps are about 12 years old though now so probably all needing a service, I think that this is the main reason the sound isn't fulfilling most of the time (using Naim amplification, bi-amping, this system can be very revealing, which has its good and bad points).
Thanks for your assistance. Please let me know if you want any more specifics about my system. I can probably find the model / type number information of the PC components if that helps...
All the best,
Mark
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