This is an excellent .pdf file sent in by moonboy and created by Daniel Keller, TASCAM Sr. Product Specialist !

It covers tons of important tips and tweaks as well as many guides.

"Windows defaults to continual logging of Input and Output data to your hard drive.
Disabling this will free up some resources. To disable performance logging, go to the
Start menu and select Run. Type in diskperf -n and hit Okay.
Write Behind Caching

Windows defaults to write-behind caching, holding data in a memory buffer before
writing it to disk. Disabling this function will increase your system performance by writing
data immediately to disk. To disable this function, right click on My Computer and
choose Properties, or open Control Panel and select System. Select the Hardware tab
and click the Device Manager button. Click the 'plus' sign next to Disk Drives and select
a drive. Choose Properties and uncheck 'Write Cache Enabled'. Repeat for all drives in
your system."
Download: OptimizeXP2k.zip (.pdf format)
http://www.xp-erience.org/out/misc/OptimizeXP2k.zip

I just read that, but isn't write caching on HDD's beneficial? IE, if you are trying to write a 700 meg file to disk, your HDD most likely can't come close to write at 700 megs a second, so it pages data to ram and writes as fast as it can. If it tried to write 700 megs directly to disk, it would increase HDD usage as it doesn't have anywhere to put the data waiting to be written and it increases IDE load. Or am I completely wrong, lol

he he u r right (and u know u r right) :lol:

windows also recommends to enable writing cache to disk.
it will increase performance.
but should be aware that the damage to hdd is greater if the system is shutdown improperly.

btw the above post is to ppl who has more priority to audio optimization :)

hehe, i had just woken up when i posted that, and when i first wake up i never know if i am right or wrong about anything, lolol