Utitlity for turning Live into your Windows Shell

chis · Post by **chis** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:49 am

Anubis, I don't know whether you're joking, but SJ isn't doing anything illegal with this program. There is nothing in the Windows EULA that says you can't swap the Explorer shell for something else. Just don't expect Microsoft to support this, if you do this!

t# · Post by t# » Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:10 am

the tool looks nice, thanks you!

do you know that there is a differeces/advantages than that i kill the explorer.exe process by using task manager after live is started?
(besides that the programs in the start-up folder that will not be started)

T_Zox · Post by **T_Zox** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:54 am

This dosn't work for me

I'm running XP home on a toshiba laptop, maybe i have some settings i have turn off first?

Dominik · Post by **Dominik** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:13 pm

Hi sweetjesus,
when I launch your registry.exe an (registry) error window open. It say's
" Component 'comdlg32.osx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered a file is missing or invalid"
With my working machine I'm not in the internet. 3 Month ago I made some (registry)settings, described by PC-Experience a cool German Page for Windows. So I made small Changes in Registry.Everything work normaly. Can you help???

My operating system is Win XP Pro SP2
I wanna reach 7 %

thanks Dom

kabelton · Post by **kabelton** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:16 pm

here..

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:iv03 ... =firefox-a

Dominik · Post by **Dominik** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:51 pm

Yess.. that's it (a strange problem...) Thank you kabelton. So we do Live Performance test again?

Dom

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:10 pm

chis wrote:Anubis, I don't know whether you're joking, but SJ isn't doing anything illegal with this program. ...Just don't expect Microsoft to support this...

Of course I'm joking! And of course I wouldn't expect MS to support anything that would drain the $$ from their coffers.

Although you woud think that MS could easily develop something like this and support it and release it as some sort of advanced tweak- for free! rather than than trying to market it as a new OS a la XP Pro or Media Edition or what not. Thank God we have this forum where one minute you get conspiracy theories and the next we get gems like this

chis · Post by **chis** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:18 pm

Okay. Sarcasm doesn't seem to come across very well on the internet, does it?

Kodama · Post by **Kodama** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 5:46 pm

Sorry for the stupid question, but what exactly are the advantages of this?

anti-banausic · Post by **anti-banausic** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 6:39 pm

Ok, so this is working perfectly on my system, however....

The only thing that it does for me is free up a little RAM. It hasn't affected my CPU usage at all! Not on the Ableton meter, or in task manager.

I think this is because I run a really stripped system as it is. I normally only have 19 services running on a normal startup, and this reduces it to 15. Again, it does free up some RAM, but at a gig of RAM I seldom run low anyway.

But it is really cool. I think I may still use it.

Thanks again sweetjesus.

Cheers, AB

Nod · Post by **Nod** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:00 am

anti-banausic wrote: I think this is because I run a really stripped system as it is. I normally only have 19 services running on a normal startup, and this reduces it to 15. Again, it does free up some RAM, but at a gig of RAM I seldom run low anyway.

Depending on your system requirements you could probably halve that figure if you wanted to. My XP sys currently runs on 8 services at start up - as every little helps when your using an older machine or running low on RAM

For those who haven't seen it check out Blackvipers XP services guide for what you really need.

http://web.archive.org/web/200411280841 ... icecfg.htm

anti-banausic · Post by **anti-banausic** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:08 am

Probably true, but unlike some of you, I still use my DAW to connect to internet, iPod usage and the like, so I need some services running, like svchost and the like.

I turn off the iPod stuff unless I am updating, but I also need the nostromo running and stuff.

So, it hasn't helped much, but it is good.

Cheers, AB

linzatti · Post by **linzatti** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:17 am

Sorry If I am a bit slow, but. What are the benfits of making it a part of shell?

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:58 am

linzatti wrote:Sorry If I am a bit slow, but. What are the benfits of making it a part of shell?

I think that by running Live as the shell when Windoze boots up, it should add stability to the app. Making it more robust, less prone to crash, etc., Since it is at the top of the food chain for resources. This is not so much a method to free up memory but more like setting the focus on Live and not Windows Explorer and it's associated baggage. Am I right SJ?

linzatti · Post by **linzatti** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:10 am

Anubis wrote:
linzatti wrote:Sorry If I am a bit slow, but. What are the benfits of making it a part of shell?
I think that by running Live as the shell when Windoze boots up, it should add stability to the app. Making it more robust, less prone to crash, etc., Since it is at the top of the food chain for resources. This is not so much a method to free up memory but more like setting the focus on Live and not Windows Explorer and it's associated baggage. Am I right SJ?

So there won´t be any "speed-gains". I was thinkin of CPU gains.