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The modern day cMP installation refuses to die!

With apologies to Varese ...

Having been without any digital since my third JULI@ died and having no desire to buy another one I started reading so much good about Lorien's WaveIO (not to mention Jack Wong saying he had got one) I decided to get it and see what could be done with a minimal XP Pro install.

Jack's ISO was missing too much USB stuff to get this to work and as much as I love Jack and his brain I remain slightly doubtful there is that much difference between XP and HOME when you get it down to almost nothing.

I am in the midst of assembling Doede Douma's DDDAC1794 so all of my minimizing has been done silently. I have no idea how it sounds! My premise remains that the smaller the OS the better so I see no need to listen to it along the way.

One can get rid of most everything we could get rid of before. Of course, there are the USB entries and since USB has dependency on PCI there is still much of that remaining. The registry ends up being larger. At this point I think I have removed all that I can. I am at 44kB.

I did find, and have no idea if it is something we missed the "first time", that isapnp.sys can be removed from the drivers folder and all mentions of it in the registry. Not enough to balance out all of the USB related stuff that must remain.

In deference to Serge I used NTFS for this install. He feels strongly it is superior to FAT. The NTFS.sys is significantly larger than fastfat.sys which leads to a larger OS "size".

So my windows folder is 17.2 mB mainly because many of Jack's special .dlls and .syss will not work with USB or something. Luckily the micro-shell works just fine.

Into the project I was contacted by Dave Bruce who has been working with WaveIO since the spring with a minimized windows install and he is very pleased with what he is hearing.

SO, if anyone is still looking at this thread I hope this will inspire others to use cMP within the USB "craze" and due to devices like WaveIO it is most likely the way to go.

Hope to have my DAC working this weekend and be able to tell how good it is. Too long ago to be able to make comparisons to JULI@/cMP but hard to beat the LP reference for judgement.

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