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Design goal is to elliminate all IO overheads

Recommended Windows settings as set out achieves this by:

1. Having no paging file (no VM)
2. Stopping all unnecessary services (task scheduler, disk indexing, etc.)
3. Remove unnecessary programs (many sw installations do sneek in startup actions)
4. Remove Windows components (disk indexing, messenger, etc.)
5. Only have foobar in startup
6. Perform boot only prefetch (and deleting all contents of c:\windows\prefetch)
7. Install no virus protection sw

Test this and let me know what you get. After bootup, with Foobar started but not playing, there should be no disk activity whatsoever no matter how long system idles. Only disk activity would be the disks themselves (Windows has no control over this), e.g. parking drive heads and thermal recalibration.

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  • Design goal is to elliminate all IO overheads - cics 23:04:53 04/08/07 (0)
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