GBoost will do exactly what it says it will do. The problem is that when you are checking an email while working the radio (as I think most of us probably do) or some guy on the other end mentions a product and you google on it, suddenly GBoost will decide it knows what's best for you and shut your stuff down. I tried it with my previous game-but-lame Gateway and found it totally unsatisfactory just for that reason. I will decide what I want to run and when, thank you VERY much.
(A little cranky today; not sure why.) On 12/6/11, Ross Stenberg <ross.stenb...@charter.net> wrote: > GBoost does a nice job of doing most of what you ask for on demand. It > will even shut down your browser and Email if it is running when it's > enabled. Frankly the the only difference I note on my not so special > "store bought PC" is a a few percentage points of CPU usage....say from > 10% usage to 8%. It runs flawlessly either way and the DPCs don't seem > to change at all. I think you hit the point of diminishing returns once > you start using 4 core and above machines for our typical SDR and > ancillary program usage. > > On 12/5/2011 6:09 PM, Michael Tondee wrote: >> A little further thought and questions on this. Assuming I do this, >> what all would you "strip" from Windows on the "radio" drive and what >> kind of other stuff besides the obvious radio programs would you >> add. I would think there would be no need for any type of E-mail or >> even a web browser either for that matter. Virus protection? I don't >> really think it's needed since the only online connections I would >> make while on that system would be to DX clusters or possibly reverse >> beacon networks and that type of stuff. I have an Nvidia video card >> and I'm pretty sure it's drivers are shooting up my DPC's sometime. I >> would think the most basic Windows generic video and audio drivers >> would work. The point would be to make as lean and mean an OS as >> possible on the "radio" drive just as someone would do with a stand >> alone Flex dedicated machine so what type of stuff would you remove >> and/or add? Also, since I only have 3GB of RAM GB, there is no >> advantage to making the OS 64 bit is there? I'm running 32 right now. >> Thanks, >> Michael, W4HIJ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
