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1. Re: Optimizing Windows 7
John T Smith Jul 16, 2010 7:06 PM (in response to Christopher Duncan)Some links I've saved
Win7 Help http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/w7itpro/
Win7 Configuration Article http://windowssecrets.com:80/comp/100218
Win7 Monitor http://windowssecrets.com:80/comp/100304
Win7 Optimizing http://www.blackviper.com/Windows_7/servicecfg.htm
Win7 Adobe Notes http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/508/cpsid_50853.html#tech
Win7 Adobe Update Server Problem http://forums.adobe.com/thread/586346?tstart=0
An Adobe Win7 FAQ http://forums.adobe.com/thread/511916?tstart=0
More Win7 Tips/FAQ http://forums.adobe.com/thread/513640?tstart=0
Processes http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Win7 God Mode http://forums.adobe.com/thread/595255?tstart=0 -
2. Re: Optimizing Windows 7
Christopher Duncan Jul 16, 2010 7:18 PM (in response to John T Smith)Great stuff, John. Thanks!
Chris
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3. Re: Optimizing Windows 7
JSS1138 Jul 17, 2010 12:16 AM (in response to Christopher Duncan)For myself, I didn't do anything special. CS4 works great on Win 7 right out of the box.
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4. Re: Optimizing Windows 7
Harm Millaard Jul 17, 2010 1:13 AM (in response to Christopher Duncan)Chris,
Go to the Hardware forum http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/hardware_forum?view=discussions&start=0 and at the top of the page, click the Overview tab. Then in the drop down box there are a number of articles worth reading, one of them about Installing & tuning, which says Vista, but largely applies to Win7 as well.
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5. Re: Optimizing Windows 7
Christopher Duncan Jul 17, 2010 4:55 AM (in response to JSS1138)That's been my experience thus far as well. However, since I went to the trouble of getting faster ponies, I may as well find out what brand of beer they prefer.
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6. Re: Optimizing Windows 7
Christopher Duncan Jul 17, 2010 5:09 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)Thanks, Harm.
The new system is breathing much easier on the projects that were squeaking a bit on the processor challenged box, particularly after a sniper took out Dell Control Point and grazed Microsoft Security Essentials, resulting in realtime checking being disabled.
I'm currently running your 3 disk recommended settings, the OS on the Dell C drive, D and E being the 1 gig Fujitsas. I can fit one more drive into this box, but was wondering what your thoughts are on two options - replacing the C drive with an SSD or putting another Fujitsa in and running the either the Project / Media or Preview / Media Cache drive in RAID 0.
With Windows 7 32 bit and 3 gigs of memory, I suspect the page file still sees a bit of activity, and thus having it & the OS on an SSD might be significant, but you've clearly garnered a lot of expertise on the performance benefits of RAID, so I'd value your opinion.
Chris
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7. Re: Optimizing Windows 7
Harm Millaard Jul 17, 2010 6:13 AM (in response to Christopher Duncan)Chris,
Have you ever submitted your benchmark results on PPBM4 Benchmark to either Bill or me (the last by PM)? I can't remember.
My initial guess is that you will profit more from extra 1 GB memory than an extra disk. If you were to add and extra disk, look here: Adobe Forums: Generic Guideline for Disk Setup
SSD's are a waste of money on desktop/workstation machines as a boot disk and they are way to expensive to use as storage. Around 40 x more expensive than conventional disks per GB. For the boot disk it may save you a couple of seconds during boot or loading programs, but what is the relevancy of reducing your boot time from 65 to 60 seconds once a day, or loading PR in 3 seconds instead of 8? I much prefer 3 or 4 additional 1 TB disks in my system than a single SSD as a boot disk for around the same amount. And with all those additional disks performance will be increased much more than a single SSD.
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8. Re: Optimizing Windows 7
Christopher Duncan Jul 17, 2010 11:36 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)Haven't done the benchmark but I have visited the disk setup page, as I put the 3 drive system together based on the recommendations there. Great stuff, which I appreciate very much.
Would have paid for the 4th gig of memory, but it's largely wasted in 32 bit versions of Windows so I didn't bother. There will be a time down the road when I build a 64 bit box (and probably move to CS5 when I do), but that's a task for a different day and a healthier budget.
Regarding SSDs, my boxes stay up 24/7, so I don't really care about boot time. While they're horribly expensive per byte as a storage medium, the only thing that makes me consider one is the page file. If there's a significant amount of paging going on (given the rather limited amount of memory), i/o to an SSD is going to be faster than a hard drive and thus it might make a difference in overall performance. That said, I'm just not sure it offers a sufficient bang for the buck to make it worthwhile.
I'll probably run with the system as is for a while as it's getting the job done, and when things pick back up a bit just move to a 64 bit machine. But I'm too much of a geek not to explore the possibilities. Well, at least in my head.



