What's shutdown?
My pc is supposed to be on all the time. S3 works marvelously on my setup. Less than 1s to come back to desktop.


This is a nice one. I'll check tomorrow if i have this and if so, will be disabled.

BTW W7 has a few more services that showed in the computer management and task scheduler. I'll dig more into that, but as i said i achieved a silent hd just with Peter's optimization.

That uninstall the "feature", IIRC. I prefer the disabling approach that Peter followed.

Yes, but you can tell me which are and i can do that manually. I thought aero was to be disabled

A quick listen told me that there is more transparency with the new build over the old computer used before. And that the pc is truly silent in my room (closed case now).

Are you talking about aero or the services? I guess the latter.

Well, u know that i play always attended and that i hide the taskbar so the visual effect is the same but i can get back to xxhe or any other program if needed without much trouble. Unattended always left me out of control and i dont like the idea

Ooookay, I reinstalled W7 Home Premium for the third time on the dedicated pc and did all optimizations following Peter's guide.

There are slight differences in W7, like readyboost and a couple more services not enabled by default. Also the HP version has less stuff than the Ultimate (that I have on my main computer). On a fresh install, also defrag is not running but it's scheduled nonetheless.

Disabling defended didnt cause any error, but disabling the schedule and unticking optins should be enough as well.

The logs must be disabled as Roy described, unticking the enabled checkbox.

Done everything, finished 10 mins ago, i restarted and checked the perf meter. not nice. Waited about 10 mins and then the VSS stopped and the disk activity became sort of dead (yay!) Music will play tomorrow.

Now, i have a question about visual things. I know that some people disable aero and all visual aids. What about this?
Peter, did you try already and thought not needed?

Scan at high dpi without compression. But to be 8MB it has to be 2000x2000 or above.

You guys really need to use photoshop to do this job. I download lots of covers from allcdcover and half of their scans needs to be cropped, smoothed and colors adjusted. Then I usually leave the normal resolution. I think I should instead make a smaller version 600x600 or 700x700. My own scans are set at 72dpi (screen resolution) and around 1000px IIRC.

Now that I have most of the DB already built it would be quite a pain to go trough all that and resize all. But indeed having lots of big covers makes the library quite slow.
Edit: didnt try the latest versions yet.

Wrong :D
I "finished" today. Just the irTrans software to install, then another restore point and add the music HDD and disabling services.

I had an old 500gb seagate disk that i wanted to use for backup but it's fricking hot (45°C) and would raise the internal temps, so it will go out and I'll get another disk. I have to see if the matrix raid can transform a single disk to a raid 1 in a second time (my guess is yes).

I had only one issue with my config and that was the BD drive not being able to boot when in AHCI or RAID mode. Had to put a dvdrom from another computer (still plugged to run memtestx86 all night) to install windows. I put W7 home premium x64 (msdn).

The rig has only one fan, undervolted and runs basically unaudible from 1,5m distance and open case top. So far i'm very happy.

I always use fill, never tile (which in vista was crop or something) and i'm using the landscape theme atm.

Anyway, I'll try more on the dedicated pc, i dont use wallpaper here.

From the X button in the top corner of the window (remember that i always play attended).

On my new little screen (18,5"), I'll have 1360x768 (took a model with low resolution native on purpose).
If we make it 600px, it would be perfect

I agree with Roy that some biiig pictures in the gallery make it slow. I have really huge scans saved as folder.jpg.

Short playtime and two bugs (tested on W7 RTM x64):

1) start button disappears
2) background does not returns to normal when i close xxhe (this was solved for me in a previous build)

luv the long tree

Cool. I HOPE i'll be able to mount the pc today.

Why the font change? I got used to the times.

BTW, in attended mode with taskbar autohide everything is exactly as I want
Sometimes I prefer your back with track list (more visible than some albums back).


Does this message mean that now i can choose whether to display the back.jpg picture?

When i reinstalled Vista on my temporary music pc, I used the same activation code and it worked.
With new hardware i think its not the case, so you'll get an email soon, Peter
I have all components (including the mainboard and SSD) and W7 ready to go.

Well, then keep in mind that i have highres pictures, some of them bigger than my desktop (such as 1200px+), so i dont think it's a good idea.
instead cropping to make it square would be nice.