Optimizing My Computer

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charon17

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Allo Everyone!

I have a question for any and all computer wizards who can really get the most meaty performance out of even the crappiest of machines..


I'm sequencing music using Cool Edit Pro (99) on a 266 Pentium computer with MMX.. The computer is about 3 years old now. It currently has 80 megs of ram, and windows 98 manages the virtual memory. I have 0 cash to start upgrading, and with this computer it would be more worth it to save up for a brand new one. I have difficulties sequencing songs longer than 3 minutes without splitting them up. I've got about 1 gig of hard drive space to work with, and generally I use files that are 44.1kHz, 16-bit, and alternate from stero to mono when ever it saves space. I would like to start working in 32-bit, but there is no way my computer at it's current state could hand the double in file size. I use *.wav files for everything.

I have a feeling the virtual memory settings could be optimized to help my performace a bit. But there has to be something else, perhaps disabling certain memory consuming features. I don't know. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for your help

Charon
 
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Change the file system as follows: Control Panel - System Icon - Performance Tab - File System Button - "Typical Role of This Machine" - set it to "network server". Doesn't matter if your not running a network. It will increase performance by adding more file handles and improving the disk caching. Only do this though if you have >=64 MB of RAM on your system.
 
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