XPLite

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:35 am

Hi Guys,

Has anyone tried using XPLite (http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html) to optimise their DAW's. I would be interested in amy feedback +ve or -ve

CHeers

Post by **garyb** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 3:20 am

no,but 98lite was fantastic.i'm glad to hear that xplite is out and i'm sure gonna try it...

bosone · Post by **bosone** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 4:40 am

actually, i didnt like 98lite, becuse of the internet explorer shell... so i went back to win98SE "normal"...

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 6:30 am

bosone wrote:

actually, i didnt like 98lite, becuse of the internet explorer shell... so i went back to win98SE "normal"...

fx: quizically raised eyebrow

All Windows from '98 on have IE malignantly integrated into the shell! Perhaps 98lite had a earlier/different version..?

Royston

Rob van Berkel · Post by **Rob van Berkel** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:13 am

I would definitely give it a try, based on my experiences with 98lite. But.. I still don't see any reason to migrate to XP, so I stick to win98se/lite. Rockstable for my SFP/Logic/FruityLoops setup.

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:05 am

98lite used the windows 95 explorer shell (which did not have an integrated IE).. and very nice and slick it was too - I set up a lot of slower PCs with it and they worked very nicely indeed.

I don't know how extensive this 'xplite' thing is (there is a curious lack of much hard info on the site) but to be honest I doubt it would make a massive amount of difference in an OS like XP.

In my experience, the major usage of RAM comes with having a lot of services enabled.. but when you get down to using around 10-15 services it's pretty slick.

peace

kilroy · Post by **kilroy** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:39 am

Actually, only the 98lite Micro install uses the win95 browser. The other install options de-integrate the 98 explorer from the OS which gives a decent performance boost, but not to the same impressive degree as what is available from the Micro install. Stability, however, is vastly improved with any 98lite install.

There is no good reason that I can think of for migrating to XP...well almost. Cakewalk dropped support support for 98 in Sonar 3, the buggers. Sonar 3 has some *very* nice features. Also, if you need multi processor support you will need 2000XP.

I also noticed that SonySonicfoundry dropped 98 support in the new Sound Forge version 7 release.

If you don't need apps that require XP then stay with 98lite if you like it. It is faster and more stable than XP for us, every time.

Of course there is always XPlite, but Shane Brooks has made it plain that you should not expect to get the same level of performance or small install that 98lite offers. XP is just too bloated and ponderous to begin with. One can only trim so much fat, I guess.

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 6:58 pm

On 2003-09-23 12:39, kilroy wrote:

Actually, only the 98lite Micro install uses the win95 browser. ......

If you are talkling about the 98 explorer being replaced with the 95 explorer (not IE), then 98lite sleek also did this which is what I use to use.

kilroy · Post by **kilroy** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:14 pm

Bassdude, yer totally correct. The 98lite Sleek install does use the 95 explorer.

The Micro install goes even further...and gets alot smaller, under 45 megs on our machines. Works great with Scope systems, very, very stable with Samplitude.

RoonSmits · Post by **RoonSmits** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:00 pm

Hiya,

doesn't XP lite let you remove non-used applications ?

As far as I know most of then won't be used at all in a DAW, so it will make sense to remove them.

BUT on the otherhand these programms won't be used at all`(read use no processor power), if you disable the services you don't need. So my conclusion will then be that XP lite will only free up some hd space, which nowadays we have plenty.

IMHO this is just what makes XP-Lite also obsolete.

regards
Ronald

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Sounds like fun.

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huffcw · Post by **huffcw** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 7:21 am

What would be nice is if Microsoft would take a look at music production as a place to invest development dollars in. They could create an operating system based on XP that is customized and optimized for audio production, removing alot of the bloat.

They have already created some some alt versions of XP (such as the media center and tablet OS) - so it seems that it may be something that could have some potential.

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 7:59 am

On 2003-10-11 08:21, huffcw wrote:
What would be nice is if Microsoft would take a look at music production as a place to invest development dollars in.

Longhorn is supposed to be on those lines.

Post by **garyb** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 1:08 pm

longhorn is copyprotection on steroids.