Re: More on Snap, Crackle, Pop: iTunes and audio Latency

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Someone sent me this privately: 
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html

It's the best damn tool I've found yet for cleaning up my startup, what 
programs startup, services, drivers, etc. Amazing...and free.

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Warren Sirota" <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 3:24 PM
Subject: RE: More on Snap, Crackle, Pop: iTunes and audio Latency


>I haven't been following this thread - just noticed it by accident, 
>really.
> But y'all should know about the Windows Startup Control Panel. Hunt for 
>it
> on Google. There are about 6 different ways something can be specified to
> start up on boot, and this lets you block all of them, and save your 
> blocks.
> It's simple to use, very convenient, and free.
>
> My iTunes problems on Windows were more about freaking QT 7, which (a)
> disabled my QT 6 Pro license forever, with no way to get it back other 
> thank
> paying - very sleazy fashion, and (b) took over a lot of my browser's
> multimedia against my will, including screwing up TIFF displays and 
>making
> it impossible for me to browse patent office drawings (I later got a
> different addin that corrected this).
>
> At any rate, I generally look askance at all media player upgrades - I
> haven't seen one in years that actually added any technical features or
> anything else useful - they're all about pushing more ads at you and 
> adding
> more crippling DRM. I spit on them. Pyuchh...
>
> Best wishes,
> Warren Sirota
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Per Boysen [mailto:perboysen@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 5:19 AM
>> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>> Subject: Re: More on Snap, Crackle, Pop: iTunes and audio Latency
>>
>>
>> On 11 jun 2006, at 04.49, Art Simon wrote:
>>
>> > Sure enough, I opened my Windows Task Manager and stopped
>> iTunes, and
>> > I was able to run the same patches in EnergyXT one buffer
>> size smaller
>> > with no glitches. Warren also commented earlier on how
>> iTunes messed
>> > up his system, did it have anything to do with this? anyway
>> to avoid
>> > this without uninstalling iTunes?
>>
>>
>> I have iTunes on both my OSX and my XP PC's. On the XP PC there are
>> no extra background processes due to iTunes. But when I open
>> iTunes I
>> notice two extra processes: "iTunes.exe" and
>> "iPodService.exe". After
>> I have closed down iTunes the iPodService.exe stays active. I use
>> this PC for concerts with Mobius and I wouldn't open any other
>> application before I play; it's rock stable.
>>
>> Greetings from Sweden
>>
>> Per Boysen
>> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
>> www.looproom.com (international)
>> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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