Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:52:23 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Echo Indigo on 110CT's 64MB RAM
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From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Then there's Fred Vorck's web page Philip pointed to some time back that
describes the process of making a custom Win2000 setup disk that would
eliminate installing Internet Explorer and a few other components. Don't
know if I need to go that route yet though.
Removing IE before you even install Win2K (like Vorck describes) will
eliminate some 20 MB RAM usage (paged out or in RAM). That surely helps to
eliminate startup time and paging (trashing the hard disk when starting
applications). It will also decrease the footprint of Windwos Explorer
(which is intimately linked to IE).
From what I remember (I do not use my Libby anymore these days) my IE-less
Win2K (SP4) ran with acceptable responsiveness (for a 233 MHz / 64 MB RAM
PC), even with AVG anti-virus & ZA. I ran even OpenOffice on it (very slow
to start, once loaded it's fast enough tho). But e.g., Acrobat reader took
ages to just scroll up a page in a 10 MB document.
I'm still wondering if I can find how ZoneAlarm gets memory dedicated to it
at boot, and maybe apply that process to Winamp... and/or some system
setting(s) that specifically control memory for audio outside of the actual
pieces of software that decode MP3s and provide the audio output.
Obviously audio playback is piggypacking memory set aside for ZoneAlarm that
remains available after ZA is shut down. But how to just disable ZoneAlarm
booting, and assign that memory to the right places so the Indigo card can
playback without doing any gymnastics after W2K boots?
Matt
Matt
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