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  • April 17, 2013 at 7:09 pm #39281
    Tommy Hear Me
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    Partition your HD and have one partition dedicated to Djing? No Virus Programs installed on it WIFi turned off and if you feeling brave visit this site for turning off Services.
    http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-vipers-windows-7-service-configurations/

    Remember “with great tinkering comes great responsibility” and create a restore point 🙂

    April 17, 2013 at 9:06 pm #39291
    DJ Vintage
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    Yep, it’s called dual-boot and effectively gives you two totally separate setups.

    Greetinx,
    C.

    April 18, 2013 at 8:42 am #39304
    squeeam
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    Tommy Hear Me, post: 39437, member: 2570 wrote: Partition your HD and have one partition dedicated to Djing? No Virus Programs installed on it WIFi turned off and if you feeling brave visit this site for turning off Services.
    http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-vipers-windows-7-service-configurations/

    Remember “with great tinkering comes great responsibility” and create a restore point 🙂

    Thanks for the advice. I’m a bit worried about doing this as I’m not the greatest with computers but I’m sure there’ll be some Youtube vids and stuff.

    Thanks again.

    April 18, 2013 at 1:55 pm #39322
    DJ Vintage
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    Don’t worry about it too much. There are plenty of tutorials on Google and Youtube. In essence once you have created a new partition (which usually involves resizing the existing one – smaller – and creating a new on in the resulting free space) and have some kind of bootmanager installed (I like EasyBCD, but there are several around). Then it is like installing a new machine, add windows, update, the necessary DJ software and drivers and off you go.

    Good luck & greetinx,
    C.

    April 19, 2013 at 1:26 am #39340
    Dj Emazing
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    Go to your Tracktor Icon and right click it. Go to the “Compatibility” tab and check “Disable visual themes” and “Disable desktop composition”. Every time you go into tracktor now the visual themes will be disabled in windows allowing you program more memory, it will revert back when you exit tracktor. Also the popping sound may come from a grounding problem. If you laptop charger is a 3 prong plug then you should get put a 2 prong adapter on it, to know if this is the problem unplug the charger from the laptop and see if it still pops. Another thing also it to turn off the wifi.

    April 19, 2013 at 8:29 am #39346
    squeeam
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    Dj Emazing, post: 39496, member: 9575 wrote: Go to your Tracktor Icon and right click it. Go to the “Compatibility” tab and check “Disable visual themes” and “Disable desktop composition”. Every time you go into tracktor now the visual themes will be disabled in windows allowing you program more memory, it will revert back when you exit tracktor. Also the popping sound may come from a grounding problem. If you laptop charger is a 3 prong plug then you should get put a 2 prong adapter on it, to know if this is the problem unplug the charger from the laptop and see if it still pops. Another thing also it to turn off the wifi.

    Hey, thanks for your suggestions. I think they will be the ones I go for before doing anything as radical (for me) as partitioning.
    Re the grounding problem, as I am in the UK all plugs are 3 prong because all sockets are take 3 prongs. I could plug it into a 2 prong adaptor but it would still need to go into a 3 prong socket. Have I missed something here?
    Thanks again.

    April 19, 2013 at 11:13 am #39350
    DJ Vintage
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    I’ve been around the block a few times, but I didn’t know that grounding issues lead to popping sounds. Normally the effect of a grounding issues is noticeable as a 50/60Hz humm in the signal. But, it won’t hurt to try I guess.

    I read back to your original post and when I look at the laptop you have, there just shouldn’t be any performance issues. Things like disabling visual themes and desktop composition are nice when you want to run Traktor on an old laptop and you need every ounce of computing power you can get. But not on an i5, 6GB powered modern laptop.

    In essence I doubt that performance is an issue here, unless you have some pretty wacky background processes running. You could check buy pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL, then Task Management (hope I am getting the English terms right). There is a performance tab, where you can see what both the CPU and Memory load is.

    In conclusion I keep returning to either a sound card driver (setting) issue and/or latency problems. You said you sorted it, but you didn’t say what you sorted and more importantly how.

    Greetinx,
    C.

    April 19, 2013 at 11:15 am #39351
    DJ Vintage
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    If you like we can take this to a private message session to dig a bit deeper into the matter if you like.

    Greetinx,
    C.

    April 19, 2013 at 1:23 pm #39362
    squeeam
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    Chuck van Eekelen, post: 39506, member: 2756 wrote: I’ve been around the block a few times, but I didn’t know that grounding issues lead to popping sounds. Normally the effect of a grounding issues is noticeable as a 50/60Hz humm in the signal. But, it won’t hurt to try I guess.

    I read back to your original post and when I look at the laptop you have, there just shouldn’t be any performance issues. Things like disabling visual themes and desktop composition are nice when you want to run Traktor on an old laptop and you need every ounce of computing power you can get. But not on an i5, 6GB powered modern laptop.
    I agree, I wouldn’t have thought there would be issues with these kinds of specs.

    In essence I doubt that performance is an issue here, unless you have some pretty wacky background processes running. You could check buy pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL, then Task Management (hope I am getting the English terms right). There is a performance tab, where you can see what both the CPU and Memory load is.
    I will have a look at this later.

    In conclusion I keep returning to either a sound card driver (setting) issue and/or latency problems. You said you sorted it, but you didn’t say what you sorted and more importantly how.
    I didn’t say I had sorted the latency issue but that I had tried to i.e. changing from 512 to higher or lower, changing other settings (I can’t remember now as I’m at work but I would have thought I knew them off by heart).
    Greetinx,
    C.

    If I try yours and DJ Emazing’s suggestions and nothing comes of it then I would be happy to take you up on your very kind offer of sorting this out by private message. I see you are in the Netherlands so the time difference would only be an hour so hopefully it won’t be anything to inconvenient for you.
    Thank you.

    April 19, 2013 at 1:53 pm #39364
    DJ Vintage
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    No worries m8, I keep unregular hours at best lol. And with this devilishly helpful tool called TeamViewer I could even “look over your shoulder” into your computer. You know, a pictures say more … etx.

    Let me know what and we will work out a schedule.

    Greetinx,
    C.

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