Tweaking Windows 10 for Music Production (2019)

[@garyshore489]

Made some timestamps so people can go to a given section and check things along w/the PDF- A off Start menu on L side of taskbar B off search box on taskbar All A 1:05 Power options 3:28 System sounds 4:12 Privacy settings 9:09 System settings 11:30 offline maps B 12:06 Services 14:30 Animations (download) 15:36 CCleaner A 19:15 Hard Disk Optimization

[@garyshore489]

Mike-Didn't realize you were over here man!!Actually made a mistake and had to repost this,then saw you'd pinned the first one w/the mistake-could you change this to the corrected one? BTW just posted over on the Creative Sauce FB group the other day asking about using GM files in Native Instruments..wonder if you saw this?

[@alancollins2782]

This is the most comprehensive tutorial on the subject I have ever seen. Most of the others on this topic only hit a fraction of the tweaks you mention. I thought I had done all the tweaks to maximize my PC for music production. I'm glad I watched your video and found that there was much more I could do. As you mention in your video, many of the more minor tweaks by themselves don't amount to much, but collectively can make a big difference. Thanks, and keep those videos coming!

[@ImplosiveCatt]

From my 25yr. of Windows OS and around 15yr. DAWs experience I can say there are only very few real OS "tweaks" worth it since Windows 7. The more important part is good practices non specifically related to OS itself. Windows tweaks 1. High performance power profile. 2. Disable everything about windows defender. 3. Disabling visual FX in advanced settings can help with "responsiveness" of graphical elements but it's mainly a matter of perception, not performance efficiency. 4. You may want to install Malwarebytes Windows Firewall. It's a frontend for Windows Firewall. It gives you much better control over app's and processes connection to internet. Optional - turn off the cpu power saving options in bios. It might squeeze a little more responsiveness from your stone age cpu, - using core parking disabling apps. Good practices 1. Do NOT install any realtime antivirus/antimalware. Just disabling it while making music won't cut it. 2. Keep the number of background running apps at minimum. You don't need 15 apps checking e-mails, chats, weather, forums, the world's chinchilla reproduction rate, whatever,...while making music. Performance wise, it is best to shut down their processes in the task manager. While shutting down the Windows "diagnostics" is good because of privacy issues, it is nowhere near harmful to OS performance as shitload of apps you installed which runs in the background. 3. Keep it simple as possible. I've spent countless hours on "optimizing" Windows since WinXP. Just for fun. The most important thing I've learned is to keep it simple and effective. The thing is, the more complicated your tweaking procedure, the less you're willing to do it again when the best choice is to reinstall Windows and start from scratch. You WILL come to that point sooner or later and no system partition backup strategy will save you from that occasion. After 5, 10 or 20 reinstalls (15 years span) from scratch, your focus is shifted to efficiency. You don't want to practice the same "tweaks" allover again when you haven't seen any tangible improvement. This is the best guideline you can get on Windows optimization topic. Learn it from my experience or take the long road.

[@madmunk100]

hey....you are good!...thanks for the advice!

[@mjsthx1138]

Optimizing WinXP for audio back in the day was fun. You could actually see a real improvement. If you coupled both a user profile with a hardware profile you could log in using your Audio account and have a tweaked Audio pc then when you need to do non-audio computing like programming or business tasks, reboot into your standard hardware profile and second user profile and have all those extra services and non-audio hardware working.

[@ImplosiveCatt]

@@mjsthx1138 It depends on the context. WinXP was good for tweaking because there was a lot of space for improvement. Win10 is the most optimized Windows version to date, giving very few tweaking options. In fact, the only "tweak" that could make a tangible difference in some scenarios is changing balanced power plan to performance.

[@eviloutionise]

What do you suggest for antivirus?

[@ImplosiveCatt]

​@@eviloutionise The best performing system is no-AV system. If you really need AV then the Win Defender is the least damaging. The "antivirus" software is actually worse than the virus. You may get a virus, but you can easily restore everything from the backup. Or you can install AV and suffer inevitable performance problems because of their realtime scanning and monitoring and false positives. Antivirus is good for your grandma but useless to anyone with internet experience. I gave up on AV 5yr ago, torrenting as usual and never got virus or anyting like that. My PC rig is most responsive you can get.

[@EeezyMac]

This video is fantastic. I had audio latency issues while using Ableton and thought I would need to update my bios. I've been running Latencymon for 2mins and getting in the red every time. Updated some drivers and it made next to no difference. However, after following along with this video Latencymon has everything in the green. My PC is having no latency issues whatsoever now. Super in depth and helpful. I rarely comment on vids but this helped me so much I felt I had to. Cheers mate!

[@trislineker]

Your videos are really on the money, dude. Amazing job. Every video I've from Creative Sauce has been helpful!

[@mrlionel1965]

What a bunch of junk running in the background. This did make a difference, at least on my laptop it did. Thanks so much for reposting this Mike.

[@CreativeSauce]

Glad it helped!

[@michaelr3122]

Thanks Mike, the first tip alone helped resolve an annoying crackling sound I had while using Kontakt and other VSTi's on my high end machine. From another Mike.

[@marcopolo7055]

Thank you for making these videos. I swear everyone has a mac. It's nice to see windows tutorials especially for music productions. years of headaches gone now. ✌

[@alexrocky82]

Thank you so much! Especially the pdf helped me a lot to stabilise my workflow

[@American_Composer_Mike_Sopko]

Wow thanks dude! I watched your video and did quite a few of the steps you recommended and it resulted in much better performance for my CPU. Thanks for posting, peace

[@edwincabassa5754]

Great technical information - explained clearly and finally after many years of using computers, you've taken the time to demonstrate important information that otherwise would cost a lot of money to have a technician do. Nothing against technicians, however, they can better serve with more complicated aspects of CPU ocupation

[@leirumanuel]

Great Post. This is something I needed. I just bought a new power pc due to limitations with Mac M1 and Big Sur with my Daw and Plugins. Now I expect that my W10 work like a charm. By the way, I have switch off completelly Windows Update Service. I do not consider this important.

[@ShirishSwami]

Thanks Mike. I have two pcs. One of them I mainly use for Music. I have just finished tweaking windows 10 as per your amazing instructions. It was easy for me as I kept listening/posing the video on one pc to update the music pc. I am not using the CCleaner. I have recently bought SonarX3 Producer and found all your Cakewalk videos useful. Thanks a lot for such amazing guidance for people like me.

[@t-boog2173]

God Bless You Mike! You just gave my PC a shot of B12! This thing is flying now bro. Thanks Man!

[@holotropik]

Thanks mate. Coming back to Windows after moving to Apple 10 years ago, so this is helpful ;-)

[@CreativeSauce]

Haha - welcome back!

[@christophercoston1703]

Hi, I went through the pdf, tweaked, now running faster...thank you!

[@yiqwaba3833]

Wow thank you again, you have been on the move lately!

[@oscarbrambila9285]

I had a pop and crackling sound coming from my uphoria 404HD. I thought it was the interface or USB cable but it was just the configuration of the usb and power that was mentioned in the video. Also my laptop runs a lot better. Thanks a lot!!!

[@GuitarStuffz]

I got so used to your intro that I just do the drums in my midi keyboard lol

[@frankwagner2161]

Mike thanks for excellent tips. Having switch the Studio from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Turning off the Apps running in the background was very helpful.

[@matthewcoldheart4783]

Bro, you look like a Bond 007 baddie who's a very good musician too! Kiddin apart, Thanks for all the guidance, mate!

[@rcan1958coxnet]

Excellent Windows 10 optimization tutorial Mike. Some other optimizations that have helped me include: Cakewalk's Plug-in Load Balancing, disabling ACPI devices, using Latency Monitor, learning about task/processor affinity to keep Cakewalk out of "the slow lane" and yes, I'm a long time CCleaner user and it has never fowled up my computer. QUESTION: Does Windows 10 have a way to save system settings so that all those nice DAW optimizations can be set back again when I want to use my computer in non-DAW mode?

[@CreativeSauce]

Thanks for the tips Rob, excellent. On your last point - I wish! Although I find these to be generally good for other use.

[@DevinJuularValentine]

That usb power step is very useful. I had to switch from my Roland audio interface to a Focusrite one, and then I was getting BSOD driver errors but didn't realise it was due to the Focusrite ... Formatted my PC, and it eventually started happening again! Luckily it is a know problem and I found this fix but I nearly threw the Focusrite out the window

[@tykerdog33]

Great video thanks. I hadn't built a PC music computer since XP so this was invaluable for optimizing my setup. Thanks.

[@paulbush8881]

Hallo Mike , as i said in previous mails I´m just beginning with my first recording after setting everything up following your superb invaluable tutorial´s , my first song ``yoodoo that voodoo ´´ isnt completey written so playing guitare and using my toontrack drums in conjuction with BL and adding drum fill-ins as I write makes the whole process so much easyer saving me loads of time ,once again thanks for the super tutorials ....analogue Paul B

[@6stringgunner511]

Thanks, Mike. I'm gonna try these things tonight and through out the next couple days. I've got windows 10. The tech at the computer shop talked me into this jallopy!!! Live and learn, I guess. Ha ha ha 🤔🤪☹️! Have a great week.

[@joegrint6280]

Just caught up with this one. Some great tips here. Thanks again Mike

[@larsnorqvist6905]

Big thanks for all your post, really informative and always right to the point . But why am I expecting to see Graham Elliot and Joe Bastianich to show up by your side? ;) Great Job! Thanks!

[@CreativeSauce]

LOL - its the deep wrinkles!

[@yourdjsilenceph7793]

Nice one Gordon!

[@davidnollmusic363]

Thanks so much for your very helpful video and .pdf!

[@CreativeSauce]

My pleasure David - thanks for watching!

[@Kacepru]

Another thing I remembered just now. It's not about tweaking the system per se, but about turning the PC off. There's this thing in most modern operating systems (including Windows 10), when if you want to turn off your computer, and you hit the "shut down" option, it doesn't actually make the PC stop working, rather it puts in sort of "deep sleep/hibernation mode", and this is supposed to make the PC turn on faster, but it does it by never really shutting down the computer properly, and in the long term, it might make your machine slower, so what you can do to avoid this (at least on Windows systems) is using the "restart" option instead of "shut down", and after the computer restarts and the window where you enter your password shows up, then you actually use "shut down" option, and you should even see the warning about how the system won't save your work, etc, nothing to worry about. Only then your PC actually shuts down completely. Having IT friends is useful.

[@tamellbailey4857]

whether your pc "shuts down" or goes into "sleep" or "hibernation" are actually 3 different options and 3 different states based on your power settings, if we are talking a laptop which most people have, then there can be different things that happen when the lid is closed, or when the power button is pressed, or when the "sleep" button is pressed (if it has one), however what you are saying isnt' actually true....the misunderstanding probably came from someone who just closes the lid on their laptop thinking that will shut it down when it doesn't actually do that normally. The way to properly shut the comptuer down completely is to go to the windows logo and choose "shutdown", you dont' have to restart and then shutdown.

[@uniqhnd23]

Or just turn off Fast Boot in the power options... Does the same thing by turning off hibernated shut down.

[@Kacepru]

@@uniqhnd23 That's good to know, thanks.

[@keyplayajim]

@@tamellbailey4857 Hold down the Windows button and hit the 'R' key (for "Run"), then enter "shutdown /s /t 002" without the quotes (and note the spaces). That will produce a guaranteed complete shutdown. Change "/s" to "/r" to reboot instead.

[@temerity9618]

Thanks, already looking better usually my laptop would be running around 25% cpu and now it’s running around 3%

[@michaelgutierrez9355]

I really appreciate this video. I heard a bunch of cracks and pops before I tried this. After this step by step process, I noticed a huge change. I don’t hear any more pops or cracks. I also downloaded the most recent driver for my audio interface. I believe the combination really made a difference. Thanks again

[@brocklanders4273]

Do you know if this process still applies for Windows 11? I think we only have until October to get the free upgrade from 10 to 11 and I'm not sure if the set up would be the same or not. If you've already upgraded to 11 it would be great to have a video like this one for setting it up. Thanks for all the great content and love the channel 🙂

[@kubax5450]

Hi Mike. Are you planing to do simmilar guide for windows 11?

[@StephSancia]

You very much sound like Mick Jagger in places but I'm wondering if you're from Essex ? !! LOL I'm TRYING to get used to Win 10 but I find Win 8.1 Pro runs much faster after just killing Defender. Win 10 feels like Bill Gates has laid an array of Security Minefields everywhere that I get so frustrated with. I've downloaded your PDF just in case I stay with 10 but I've just bought PreSonus Studio One 4 Professional to learn the arts of music production. Fabulous video. Happy New Year back to the Homelands from Xena Land in Middle Earth✌️ps subbed !!

[@CreativeSauce]

Lol. I'll take the Mick Jagger reference. I was born in Australia, but moved to England when I was a kid, and grew up on the Isle of Wight! But my mum is Londoner, so I think I got a bit of accent from her. Thanks for watching!

[@mizaron1]

Love your channel, bought your spiral bound book.

[@DJONTHETRACK985]

Thank u so much for this. I finally recorded a song without clicking and popping 😂

[@bassman4342]

Tip: In CCleaner > Registry > run the scan for issues a few times. It often finds some more (new) issues after fixing the first batch, I always repeat it until it finds no more.

[@ImplosiveCatt]

Don't do registry cleaning. It has nothing to do with performance. All what CCleaner does is removing the registry leftovers from uninstalled programs and some references to deleted files locations on the disk drive. They are dead anyways. Just sitting there doing nothing.but using very tiny portion of drive space. While a registry cleaner may be benign, there is always a chance of a mistake. You don't want mistakes unpredictably altering any registry settings. Just forget about the registry cleaners. Not worth it.

[@ironfistentertainmentptylt3846]

The best ever Windows OS for music production was XP. Things were proper an smooth all day every day!!!

[@timothythomasmusic777]

Cakewalk had been just turning off with no warning so I hope this helps that issue. Thanks

[@Rob.anonymous]

@creative sauce awesome - thanks for your video. Could you also tell us that u activated hyperthread and or High precision timer in bios ? Thanks and take care

[@harrisfrankou2368]

Thank god. Just got my PC back after the blue screen. It's new SSD drives a beast. It's going but I wanna make it as stable and fast as possible.

[@mjsthx1138]

The first step to this process is running LatencyMon. If LatencyMon Determines your system is capable of handling real-time audio without dropouts proceed to recording music. If you are running into issues while recording, then look at tweaks to your system. If you are only mixing and not recording the tweaks are going to be less beneficial to you. The Audio settings in the daw and/or your interface software will probably provide the biggest performance boost if you are actually experiencing issues during mixing.

[@ImplosiveCatt]

There are no OS tweaks except for the power plan that could make a difference. Agree with the audio settings.

[@OnlineMD]

I've found that Piano learning apps like Piano Marvel can interfere with the USB MIDI on Cakewalk in a Win 10 PC. And vice versa, said a support person at Piano Marvel. I love that app by the way; I'm 72 now, and surely by the time I'm 90 I'll be playing piano as good as you! 😂😂😂

[@dreamhunter6988]

You are a beast thank you for your help

[@CreativeSauce]

My pleasure!

[@lupiyorro]

(a) First: One the problem was the bad-Performance and Settings of Windows 10 for Audio-Production. Let's be honest, everybody wants to Record, Mixing & Master music using a DAW and at the same time enjoy Social Networks & Mutimedia (Facebook, KZbin, Instagram, Web Cam.. etc...) You can choose both, but you have to turn off some of caracteristics of Windows to be able performance much better the DAW's integration.. and that's what I did... I want to thank to this video for the help: (b) Second: I was having a lot of problems with Audio & Pugins through Cakewalk by BandLab (Pops, Noise, and Crackling during Recording, Playback & Mixing) despite of have a powerful PC.. and the solution was too: I had to delete these two files (AUD & AUD.INI) C:\Users\"pc-name"\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core) and That's it... cakewalk regenerate automatically these files once reopen the Program. Thanks! now I'M HAPPY.. no NOISE, no Pops, no Cracking.. all Good... (y) I also got back 7GB of RAM memory...

[@JensRefshoj]

Hi Mike. Will you make an updated video for Windows 11😊

[@AncientGranules]

Thanks for this, I already did many of them - to keep Microsoft 'hands' off at the same time - some other I did not know. 😎... in cloudy UK, there is some Sun coming out of the darkness!! 😂😂

[@bobwillis289]

Great informations here !

[@SonicVisualGR]

Thumbs up for "sneaky Microsoft" on 9:03 ! Changing user defined settings without notice seems a normal thing for that company ...

[@CreativeSauce]

And they really ARE!

[@SonicVisualGR]

@@CreativeSauce I love all your videos on Cakewalk! I have been using Cakewalk since Windows 3.1, and you came to save my life after a long time :) Thank you so much !

[@davmah1st]

Thanks for that Mike

[@CreativeSauce]

My pleasure David.

[@Chilajuana]

Thanks for all the info....

[@djbobby101]

Great information. Thank you!!

[@truthmjb]

Nice one

[@davefk]

Thanks for the PDF and for not making us create an account, give personal info and sign in just to receive the PDF.

[@mrdave740a]

Is there any way to automate the process of disabling, and later re-enabling all the settings you recommend turning off? I'm in the unfortunate (and likely common) situation of needing my PC for music recording, graphic/photo editing, playing guitar instruction courses, video editing, general web surfing, my music library, games, finances, etc. So while I can turn things off when recording, it would take a good 15 minutes once I knew exactly what to do, and another 15 minutes of mouse-clicking on the other end, when I'm done recording. And very likely 5 minutes to reboot each time I make changes. All in all it would keep me from recording when the opportunity or mood strikes. You DO recommend dropping many things I will likely leave off forever, so kudos for that, might be enough to make a difference! As for registry cleaning, I've read for many years that it simply doesn't help outside of removing links to non-existent programs so the system doesn't waste time trying to run them, and even removing those links can be dangerous if you're not careful.

[@deniscalleja3124]

Very interesting thanks Mike

[@GPM80]

Good tips mike

[@richardslifer1052]

Great video, thanks!

[@Lidanza]

great video! very helpful

[@tri-unetrl3966]

What do you think about Ashampoo WinOptimizer for optimizing windows for music production?

[@limbophonic1]

thanks for this info, I'm about to upgrade from win 7 to win 10

[@pjr779]

Excellent! Thank you!

[@brickmissing8295]

Ran thru everything here and it did have a minor effect on the LatencyMon highest reported DPC and ISR - so may help to eliminate some of those rare clicks and pops. However it didn’t allow me to drop down to a lower buffer size for reduced lower latency. Also - I hear that background virus checking is a major processor hog so should probably include that in any optimisation process.

[@DrRickGuerrero007]

Is anyone else trying to record guitar on a 2017 hp laptop like me? 😃 Lol.. I think this video helps, thanks!

[@DiamabrushTools]

Awesome!!! Thank You!!!

[@ChrisM541]

I REALLY wish some of these were app-dependant. In a home studio, most folks will be using their only PC for everything - not just music. The wall socket power draw when setting things on 'maximum' can be quite significant. I don't know if this can be done, but is is possible to have these power settings changed up or down automatically when Windows detected specific user-assigned programs running? i.e... - If Cakewalk/audio software is running, set power options to maximum - If not, set to balanced/lower, as determined by user?

[@unknown75332]

thank you really noice

[@mikerimi3092]

Tnx 4 tips...

[@airgead5391]

Excellent!

[@Louis.Amalfitano]

not seeing any of these links you speak of in the description

[@nathanscott5978]

Is it true that a DAW uses a series core and not a parallel core processing? That means you are limited to the speed of the processor core and not the number of cores.

[@CreativeSauce]

Hi Nathan, good question. It depends on the DAW. The 2 main DAWs I use for example, Cakewalk and Studio make use of multiple cores by spreading the load of plugins across DAWs. This can (apparently) give up to 70% better performance. However, it's ultimately better to focus on higher speed than cores for audio production.

[@koekoek3751]

bro i fucking love you

[@timbeneton8068]

What version of Win 10 would you recommend? - Win 10 Pro - Win 10 Enterprise - Win 10 Pro lite - Win 11

[@333_Tarot]

What is your answer? What did u go with

[@timbeneton8068]

@@333_Tarot Win Pro 10

[@mooncosm]

HI thanks but i couldn't see a link to the Crystal Disk Mark you recommended to test speed re: write cache buffer flushing?

[@explainmypod]

Very cool!

[@CreativeSauce]

Thanks for watching!

[@accentontheoff]

Hi there I’m considering a switch from Windows to Mac, from Logic to Cubase. Should I be expecting latency.

[@jontangenes9275]

The CCleaner, uninstall page. Maybe it is better to uninstall programs from "programs and features" in the "control panel". Because the ccleaner shows dubbel of som programs, who the control panel program uninstall page, dos not.

[@MisleadGhostpants]

Hey great video I was having latency issues when going to record vocals and was beating my head on the desk trying to figure out if it was the buffer or what this video seemed to help fix that and a few other things I did. As always you are the man with cakewalk I’ve learned a lot by hands on but I have learned a lot of what I needed to know by watching your tutorials. Thanks for putting all your knowledge out there. I was wondering I know it’s out of your wheel house from what I’ve seen but have you ever produced hard rock or metals bands? If so can we get some videos on what you do to make those style of tracks on point. Thanks again Mike !!

[@themarcos150591]

Thank you!

[@CreativeSauce]

My pleasure!

[@504productions]

Thank you sir!

[@grahamstewart1427]

I always turn off my network card running services when recording Guitars or mics as of the slight hiss pops swoosh interference caused by the signal anything wireless should go :-)

[@valdon116]

Thank you so much

[@zackpususta5045]

not sure if this thread is still active but i'm at the crystal disk part of this demonstration and one thing this video seems to lack is how to use crystal disk as far as gaging the effectiveness of having both those boxes clicked. trial and error i try to avoid if possible . but if thats the only way... i still might skip it thanks

[@bojidarkonakchiiski9027]

Are this tips work for DJing to???

[@tri-unetrl3966]

You said to turn off notifications in privacy so why did you keep it on?

[@davidwatts5019]

Hi Mike, I’ve followed these tips which are mainly very helpful thanks, but when I go to update icons in Cakewalk they no longer display and I just have the generic logo. Do you know what I need to do to get these displayed again? Thanks.

[@charlesschapers1624]

THANK YOU

[@paulhenderson5995]

Dear Mike, am new to your channel and enjoy videos very much and well put over thank you.need your help with a problem I am having on start-up with cakewalk, after opening new project the cursor take up to 10 seconds to move and will not run at all when loading a sample.it seems as though the processor cant cope. the system I am running is alien aurora R7 intel (cr) core CTM) i7-8700 k cpu @ 3.70 ghz 3.70 ghz installed ram 16.0 gb (15.8gb usable) should cakewalk have any problems with this system. PS. have followed your video on weakling but know joy.glad of any help you can give.Paul Henderson

[@CreativeSauce]

Hi Paul, thanks for watching. There should be no problem at all running Cakewalk on that system - its more than capable. I dont think I know the answer to your issue, but a good place to ask is here: discuss.cakewalk.com/

[@myguitarsandme]

Often, when I'm in Cakewalk, I may need the sound for a different application, such as KZbin to watch Creative Sauce, or an MP3 player to listen to an exported mix. However, Cakewalk does not release the sound card. I have to into system settings, sound, device properties, additional device options, advanced tab, click restore defaults. Do you have any suggestions to prevent this, or is this a Cakewalk bug?

[@sebastianszyperski1886]

Nigel Barnes I am a bit late but, try in preferences to suspend audio engine when cakewalk not in focus. It is found under audio playback and recording. I’m not sure if this will fix it but it might do something :)

[@DevinJuularValentine]

Are you using AISO4ALL? If so, there's no simple way that I have found to do it. It can only be controlled by one program at a time, that sound driver, which sucks for me as I need to use the low latency to play my e drums with nice VSTs on my PC

[@ImplosiveCatt]

@@DevinJuularValentine Google FL Studio Asio driver.

[@tri-unetrl3966]

I have a question... When I uncheck compress this drive to save disc space, it's asking me to do it for C drive only or with C drive with subfolders and files! Which one should I choose??? I'm using Windows 11 by the way...

[@heythere6983]

does antivirus software ever get in the way of plugins and smoothly running software?

[@svendtveskg5719]

In my experience yes, some anti-virus software are worse than others, but they will bog the computer down. If you make music on your pc, consider not being connected to the internet on that machine. I have a dual boot system, with Linux on one drive and Win10 on another, where I simply deactivated the network adaptor.

[@MickRemington]

Are these tweaks still good for windows 11?

[@GuitarWithDofka]

PDF link “page not found” 😢

[@gamingheadztvMediaHeadztv]

do you have one of these videos for windows 11

[@jimbelanger4594]

Very good video

[@tonyodoherty6241]

I”m a musician. Ikve recently found out that I need to be able to switch off “Turbo Mode” and “Connected Standby” in reg edit within Windows.Without the ability to do this, any Windows laptop will be of no use to me, due to the constant power grabs that these codes are used for. If I cannot turn off Turbo mode then I will get clicks/pops in my audio/and constant “throttling” . I need maximum (or near) power resources going to my Cubase/Logic/Ableton software. According to info received, Microsoft have completely removed the ability to do this in it’s latest 2014 software update. Do you know a way around this prob? I believe the new software just gives you a “slider” labelled something like More-Less! This is a big problem for audio professionals using DAWs. Any help would be v much appreciated! Do you know if this latest update has put this application back? Desperate find out!

[@mikeljitbahadoer145]

These could be very good tips for some of us, but for me personally I really wanty to know iff the cpu core will get as hot as when it really needs to work at 100 procent. Thanks for the tut btw.

[@101AOK]

get the Specky from Piriform and see the temp of everything

[@denisemccleese3895]

Thank you did it all except last tip. Only have one hard drive. How do I obtain another for music?

[@drizel462]

Buy one? If you've never installed one look for a video on here to walk you through the process. If you want the easy way out just get an external USB hard drive.