best way to set windows "nle" version?

[dancray]

I want to tweak my Win98se for capturing video, but I also use my computer for other things which do not work well with that kind of optimization.

Is it best to save my reg.ini (renaming it); after optimizing Win for capture; and then launch it whenever I want to capture (thus saving my the time of all the tweaking fo nle)...

or is there a better way...sort of a dual boot; one for NLE and one for regular stuff?

[Dr Mordrid]

IMHO dualboot is the best way to go for most folks.

The basic dualboot setup would be Win98SE for the "normal" use setup & gaming and Win2K for editing and graphics because of its stability, efficient memory use and excellent DV support. This is how most of my systems are set up.

This kind of dualboot is easy to do. You just create 2 OS partitions on the HD and install Win98SE first. When you install Win2K to the other partition it automatically sets up the boot menu.

By default Win2K would start after a 30 second menu timer, but you can change it to Win98SE if you want in the Win2K System Properties. The length of the timer can also be changed.

If you don't want two OS's then you can get a boot manager program (on the net or commercial) and install >1 instances of the same OS: one for general use & gaming and one just for editing.

Dr. Mordrid



[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 22 May 2001).]

[xortam]

... or for a real safe and clean setup, try removable boot disks. I just use a mobile rack for my boot drives which will accept any off the shelf HDD units. You can also use a second mobile rack for archiving large DV files. My friend shares/archives HDTV recordings this way. Hard to beat the storage capacity, price, and performance of today's HDDs.

[dancray]

thanks, will try the dualboot!

[Dr Mordrid]

May I also suggest getting the Ghost 2001 backup program for archiving your partitons. It's a very excellent piece of code and can handle both FAT and NTFS partitions.

I archive to a removable 40g Maxtor drive. On this drive I have not only my most recent backup but also backups done right after I've rebuilt the system and installed all my software and updates.

This way if it's time to refresh the system you can just backup your mail, favorites & cookies, install the *.gho file(s) and then restore the backups.

Ghost can archive to segmented files (file.00.ext, file.01.ext etc.) when archiving large partitions and it preserves the disk format and MBR, so no need to FDISK and reformat. It's also very fast.

Dr. Mordrid