![]() My internet machines give me stomach ulcers & bad gas…all thanks to being on the internet…of course, I can’t rule out my diet & love beans for the bad gas part > There may be a case to be made that XP works fine when not on the internet, with only basic tweaks but from my experience there is always some kind of maintenance that needs to be done since there is no self-healing mechanism as with Vista and above so unless you know the folders and registry entries concerned, or can be bothered tools are great. My internet machines give me stomach ulcers & bad gas…all thanks to being on the internet…of course, I can’t rule out my diet & love beans for the bad gas partįor laptops, the OEM disks are the easiest way from woe to go but for desktops, imaging is only useful up to a point but I don’t really agree that XP is on par with Windows 7 and above in terms of reliability, since why would Microsoft have gone and designed a whole new audio layer with Vista, notwithstanding kernel and user modes. Besides the usual hardware problems with any computer, my Win XP music machines don’t generally give me grief…primarily because they’re not on the internet, and don’t need any so called ‘protection’ from evil forces known as anti-virus and other crapola. For my internet machines, it’s easy enough to use the Win install & drivers disks that came with machines.Īnd for the record, I don’t find my internet machines with Win Vista, Win 7/8 more reliable, but just the opposite. I only make images for my music machines, reason is because it would be a GREAT time consuming cluster-puck hassle otherwise, with all my software…OS, DAW programs, drivers, updates VSTi’s, samples, etc, etc, etc. ![]() I don’t use my Win Vista, Win 7/8 machines for DAW recording, only for internet, so I have no reason to make an image for those. Would you say the need to Image a machine has lessened with the introduction of Windows 7 and in particular Windows 8 because they are more reliable than Windows XP? ![]() If something go’s wrong I can reformat & reinstall Windows ‘whatever’ from their disks. With those, there’s not much on them that I need to make images for, so I don’t. Still, I don’t put crap on them if I am not absolutely forced to. My internet machines with Win Vista, Win 7 & 8 are a slightly different story. My computers are all have their own purposes…though I don’t have a dedicated pRon machine…not at this time I stopped fooling around trying to ‘fix’ or ‘clean’ an OS years ago. OR…I could go ‘PRO’ :spit: and buy Cubase 8, then worry about all this stuff, and be forced to update until the cows come home. Anything I need I can get used for cheap on ebay as well. I already have spare machines, spare parts should anything ever go south on me, so there’s no scramble to replace anything. Any hardware or software that I use is ‘age appropriate’ for the systems. You see, I’m on Win XP, everything I use on my systems have already had all the updates that there are going to be for it. This is for my dedicated music machines I’m talkin’ here mind you…which are never connected to the internet during it’s life time, never have firewalls or anti-virus, or anything else crapping them up. Well Syco, here’s my solution is… I don’t update, and my image is made when everything is a perfect working system, complete with programs, drivers and whatever else I need…at that time of course.
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