XP start options

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Ron O'Brien

I have Windows XP Professional on a PC which I frequently use for HD video
editing. This means that many services have to be turned off in order to
obtain maximum efficiency (and reduce crashes), that includes the Anti Virus
(I unplug the Ethernet cable too!).

Is there a way to incorporate a boot option to either load as normal or load
with certain services / applications turned off?
 
You can take a look at Hardware Profiles (look in your Help files for
more information). Also take a look at FSAutoStart by Ken Salter.

John
 
Thanks John I'll check that out

Ron

John John - MVP said:
You can take a look at Hardware Profiles (look in your Help files for more
information). Also take a look at FSAutoStart by Ken Salter.

John
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I have Windows XP Professional on a PC which I frequently use for HD video editing. This means that many services have to be
turned off in order to obtain maximum efficiency (and reduce crashes), that includes the Anti Virus (I unplug the Ethernet cable
too!).

Is there a way to incorporate a boot option to either load as normal or load with certain services / applications turned off?
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Run, msconfig
Run, services.msc
Use Black Viper's XP Services guide to walk you through it. And make sure you write down or save your settings so you don't have to
laboriously have to go through this every time you reinstall your OS.
After every program you install, check both msconfig and Services to see if some slimy programmer isn't trying to get his program to
start automatically and thereby bogging your system down unnecessarily. So many try to do that. Apple is notorious for it. iTunes
loads all kinds of slop on your system. But if you've every had to suffer with OS X for any length of time, you'd understand. Be
so happy you run a somewhat logical OS.
 
Hi Ron,

I'd rather change the software. The one, that I started using several years
ago, is Sony Vegas Studio. I have already updated it several times to get
newer version with newer features. It has a HD version and it works pretty
good providing excellent quality. You'd rather try this out than stop some
extra stuff like you want. I never stop any extra services including
antivirus software, because I don't need to. After I installed XP Pro I
configured the whole system to stop the services that I never use and that
can bring me an additional security risk like System Registry Remote Access
and some others. I also do a software development on the same machine (you
can imagine how hardly this machine is loaded) and I can switch to the HD
Video Editing with no rebooting. That's why I honestly don't understand your
problem. My machine had originally 2 GB RAM, I recently expanded it to 4GB
and it became even better. And it's laptop with a docking station and 20"
external LCD monitor.

What app you're using for video editing?

Just D.
 
Sorry, forgot to mention, but probably this is not your case, since you
wanted to reconfigure just one machine for everything. FYI anyway. If you
have several computers on your LAN you can easily use Sony Vegas for
distributed rendering. It significantly increases the speed, especially if
you're on the GB network. In this case you can install a software on the
remote machine(s) and use the remote machine power for video rendering,
compressing, etc. Pretty cool!

Just D.

Just D. said:
Hi Ron,

I'd rather change the software. The one, that I started using several
years ago, is Sony Vegas Studio. I have already updated it several times
to get newer version with newer features. It has a HD version and it works
pretty good providing excellent quality. You'd rather try this out than
stop some extra stuff like you want. I never stop any extra services
including antivirus software, because I don't need to. After I installed
XP Pro I configured the whole system to stop the services that I never use
and that can bring me an additional security risk like System Registry
Remote Access and some others. I also do a software development on the
same machine (you can imagine how hardly this machine is loaded) and I can
switch to the HD Video Editing with no rebooting. That's why I honestly
don't understand your problem. My machine had originally 2 GB RAM, I
recently expanded it to 4GB and it became even better. And it's laptop
with a docking station and 20" external LCD monitor.

What app you're using for video editing?

Just D.
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Hi

It is actually the big brother to your app, I have Sony Vegas Pro 9 and it
is crunching the power of my quad Core 2 Extreme X9970 3.20gig CPU with 4gb
RAM. Capturing in full HD or rending I have to keep all fingers crossed.

This is obvious a major issue for many as Sony have produced a guide to
setting up your system to run Pro 9... I have to say it still crashes but
less so. I am actually begging to wonder if it might be something in the PC
build as this morning I started it up and it immediate shut down and
restarted, it was OK after it had done that.

I knew I should have bought a MacBook Pro with Final Cut suit!

Ron


Just D. said:
Sorry, forgot to mention, but probably this is not your case, since you
wanted to reconfigure just one machine for everything. FYI anyway. If you
have several computers on your LAN you can easily use Sony Vegas for
distributed rendering. It significantly increases the speed, especially if
you're on the GB network. In this case you can install a software on the
remote machine(s) and use the remote machine power for video rendering,
compressing, etc. Pretty cool!

Just D.
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Ron,

For capturing, yes, I can't do anything else when I copy the content from my
camcorder, but when I start rendering I can send Vegas to background, even
change the task priority, and keep working with my usual stuff which is
Visual Studio, SQL Server, etc. I'm a developer and I just don't want to
lose my time completely abandoning computer for rendering, instead I load
and start the app and finally switch to my usual tasks. A few hours later
everything is done. As for grabbing, you're right, I have to shut some
active processes down to avoid dropping frames. Although, this is not very
serious. It shoots only when the antivirus suddenly starts scanning my
incoming mail, etc. And I honestly don't remember when it crashed, it never
happened comparing to many other video editing applications that I had
tested before I switched to the Vegas family.

Just D.
 
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