What is specific to user profile?

[Starvoyager]

Hi people hope ya'll are doing well. Can someone tell me exactly what is
specific to a user profile? In other words: Would device manager settings be
specific to ones user profile? If I disable a device driver in one profile
would it also be disabled in the other profiles? Im asking this cause I'll be
using vista on my desktop and vista doesnt offer hardware profiles. And I
need to have some of them disabled when Im doing my hobby of music creation.

Thanks in advance for any info.

Greg

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi people hope ya'll are doing well. Can someone tell me exactly what is
specific to a user profile?

Data files, favorites, application configuration settings, explorer
view preferences, cookies, desktop wallpapers, etc. You know, thing
things that each user can set for him/herself.

In other words: Would device manager settings be
specific to ones user profile?
No.

If I disable a device driver in one profile
would it also be disabled in the other profiles?

No.


Im asking this cause I'll be
using vista on my desktop and vista doesnt offer hardware profiles. And I
need to have some of them disabled when Im doing my hobby of music creation.

Frankly, I can't imagine how a device driver's being enabled or
disabled could possibly having any bearing on "music creation," but
then, I'm not the creative type. I only know that nothing ever had to
be disabled on my son's computer while he scored orchestral pieces using
Finale. Perhaps if you were to describe your actual problem, someone
could offer a better solution than selective crippling a computer.




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[Starvoyager]

Thank you Mr Chambers. Im only looking to disable the devices that I wont be
using during the music sessions. these programs like Sonar need all the
rescources it can get when recording and playing back 20 or so audio tracks,
plugins, effects and other stuff. Win media player plays 2 channels when its
playing a song. Sonar can be play 20 or more. And recording is 41400 samples
per second x 2. The cpu and HD need to be fast. And anti virus has to be
disabled. Plus: any communication device can be a problem. Example: I just
switched to a program called pro tools which is high end pro stuff that
studios use. And when I installed the audio interface that goes with it, I
forgot that I had my wireless PC card plugged in. When I plugged in the
device for pro tools after loading the driver the machine did blue screen and
threatened suicide. So I unplugged the wireless card and disabled the driver.
Then the pro tools device driver loaded ok. And I thank you for your answer.
You answered my question.

greg