madmanjohn

Been a while since i have been here but someone may know how already, at least thats what I am hoping. I am on a project to move all the hidden read write stuff to a separate drive, and so far all the stuff i have found online has not been succesful. Those of you familiar with the win7 64 folder tree know exactly what i mean. here's whats up. The appdata folders located in various places hold a lot of pieces of drivers, adobe and sun stuff, and virtually everything but I am dealing with an app in particular that i need to move, and its an SSD killer cause ive killed 2 already cause of its large read write cycles. Luckily enough i have been able to warranty both of them without a lot of fuss. Those of you that dj or use heavy media rendering apps will appriciate this. In virtual dj, when you load a file to play, it loads somewhere and becomes a proprietary file -- they say it loads to ram, but i cant prove that, and some say it loads to pagefile. Bottom line is this The only thing i want on the ssd is the windows system folder, the essential program files and program files x86. I would like to move the admin and name folders, and all contained within, including all the hidden folders. I just want the SSD to run the computer. Everything else will move to a velociraptor listed as the D: drive. I already have a 3rd program files folder working wonderfully, and have moved everything else. but i want as little as possible on that ssd. the big ones are the appdata files , the temporary internet files, the downloaded program files, and the hidden folder windows downloads updates to. According to what i have read, and ive been working on this all week, you can move a lot of the files, but upon reboot, it returns them back and essentially just makes shortcuts out of your new locations. There has to be a way to lock them there, and ive been fiddling with permissions all week and havent got them yet. Anyone that has a clue post it or pm me. EDIT-- and i forgot - also the stored plugins folder for IE8 as well as anything related to IE. bottom line -- the only thing i want on that ssd is essential software only thanks

when i say hardware update, it was because of the other software i was running, not vista. i build these things to do stage shows for a living, and at the time video dj software was a brand new thing, and according to the company that made it they said it would run on a single core cpu at 1.4 ghz or better, running 1 gig of ram. Yeah right. so here i am trying to make it run on a dual core with 4 gig- on a ati 780 chipset,and it dont. scrapped the whole rig and started over. now its a amd9850 quad, black edition i might add, 8 gig of 1066mhz ram, im using the ati 790gx and 4tb worth of music library under it. and runs any kind of 64 bit os i want video runs thru this thing like water now. turns out the only problem i was fighting was the realtek hd audio, couldent do what the video dj software was trying to make it do, since it has acceleration of its own. so i switched to the asus xonar dx audio card. end of problem, yeah i think im up to date., but i really want a phenom ii

Ok guys Im not a noob, but i am to this forum. So im putting this one out here. Ive used vlite before in vista 64 but i have an issue here that i need to solve. let me tell you how it began; The other morning i got a hold of a fresh copy of win 7 build 7600 x64 from a friend that i know is a msds paid subscriber and runs his own shop, as i do. I know this came straight off msds cause i watched him get it, and burn it. Ive been running 7 rc1 x64 and love it, and wanted to go to the next level All was well, install, perfect, everything, UNTIL..... i run an Asus xonar dx pcie audio card as i use this box in a club playing music videos and dj stuff, plus run the lighting and so on. (For those of you that dont know thats a cmedia oxygen dolby ic or otherwise known as the famed auzentech card in drag.... ) never had any problemes with any of it until i installed the audio card software. Soon as the reboot came up i lost the 32 bit side of IE8. but the 64 bit side ran fine. So i tried all the usual stuff that anyone might think of, and eventually called microsoft since anything that concerns IE8 is free til dec 31. and guess what happened next? NONE of the phone tech staff at Microsoft has been trained to remove or otherwise deal with ANYTHING involving the combination of windows 7 and IE8. I had the dude apologizing on the phone cause he said "we have not been trained for this problem yet and I have no resorces to check" and at that point i was not the least bit suprised either so i got a case number and he said and i quote "If you can resolve this problem PLEASE LET US KNOW" which really made my morning...... So my idea is to load my audio card driver and its software into it using vlite and keep my fingers crossed, but ive been here before- i tried that once in vista and i was able to get the driver ok, but not the control software and gui for the card. thats the probelem.i have to have the GUI to enable the headphone function oout the rear jack for the video dj software. I noticed on page 1 that ie8 is not something that can be removed, what about substituting for IE7? if i could launch ie8 AFTER the audio rig is installed, then everything might be fine. If anyone has a clue Id love to hear it. cause i have a clean iso, and a clean key to run it. dying to try it til then im stuck in rc1 x64, and everything runs fine here. the other things id like to dump is media player 12, and media center. the rest i can live with. thanks and ill be watching.

when i wwent from xp pro to vista i was cursing my machine to death for the first month. then i went to vista 64 and made a few hardware changes. along the way came sp 2 and other improvements. i switched to the win 7 rc a few weeks back and love it to death. im here now trying to learn some tips for the RTM to modify it to my liking. do it- you wont regret it.