creating hardware profiles

[jan tanjo]

Hi everyone,

I'm helping someone set up their machine and had a question about hardware profiles.

One hardware profile would be the way his machine is now, with 40 processes running, and the other hardware profile would have as few processes running as possible for video editing, or should I do that with user accounts?

(I've reread my question and I'm not sure I'm asking this question in an intelligent way but I'm not sure how else to ask it. :confused:)

[Sylvander]

Could you explain why you are linking HARDWARE profiles with the number of SOFTWARE processes running?

Is the idea that the particular processes you intend to run would only need certain items of hardware and not others?

How do you imagine reducing the amount of hardware that's operational would help matters?
Helping with a shortage of the resources [IRQ's etc] available?

[jan tanjo]

Hi Sylvander,

I wasn't sure about my question after rereading it, that's why I made that last statement. Most, if not all, the processes have nothing to do with hardware.

When I started video editing back on the 486 (Windows 3.11) I would setup a separate hardware profile for editing and one for regular use. Since then I get duty specific machines.

This particular machine, a P4 not lacking in resources, will have multiple duties. I think I should setup a video editing account then eliminate as many processes as possible.

Am I on the right track?

[Sylvander]

"I think I should setup a video editing account then eliminate as many processes as possible. Am I on the right track?"
Sounds good to me.
I think you'd only need to use hardware profiles if there was too much hardware involved to have it all running at once...
Or else you wanted to have almost two different types of machines using totally different hardware for two different duties.