User account specific services in Win XP??

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 6:11 pm

Hey, I have Windows XP and Norton Internet Security 2004. I wanted to create another user account (for digital audio) that would have different settings w/o all kinds of services, especially Norton's, running in the background as they eat up lots of resources. The problem is I have no fucking idea how to do this. How do I change it so that Norton's services run ONLY under this user account?

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:31 pm

Pray, and wait for the next version of windows. Or get Linux/Unix/anything else.

Seriously though, I have never been all that good with software, so hope that there is an OS geek here somewhere.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:26 am

MurPHy wrote:Or get Linux/Unix/anything else.

I would if they had any useful software! :S
Oh well, I don't feel like reinstalling Windoze so fuck it then

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:52 am

It should be possible. If you're lucky, Norton uses a spiffy installer that'll ask you if you want to install the program for all users or just the current one. Otherwise, I suspect that even if the Norton thingy automatically runs in all user profiles, you can disable it from the systray icon in your audio editing profile and it'll probably only do that in that particular profile.

If all that fails, there is the more drastic and generally annoying solution of backing up your disk, formatting it into two partitions and then having two installations of Windows: one for general use and the other as a secure audio editing thingie. This will work quite well as the partitioning will totally separate one disk from another while still letting you grab things from the partition you're not logged into. However, it can be a real pain to restart the computer all the time when you want to switch over.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:42 am

If that fails you could just buy a second-hand computer with some upgrades and network the two?

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 5:25 pm

Yeah..Get an old laptop running Win2k...Those work great for editing/creating audio and video.

I use Reason 2.0 and Adobe Audition for audio, and various other things for the videos...They run great on a PII 400 laptop with 128MB RAM.

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 6:23 pm

Can't you just have the Norton's run in the startup folder for that particular user? That should be very simple.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 6:30 pm

Norton is like super-set in the registry. Doesn't rely on the startup folder. It sets itself up as a "System Service," too, and it's a pain to shut it down. Makes Windows think the files are essential to having a working computer. Sometimes ends in a crash, too.

Just uninstall Norton, run a registry cleaner to remove it completely, and re-install it...Set it up for "Current User" only, or something. I think that's an option. I'm not sure. The registry on mine is set in (LOCAL), so I have no idea how to change it for just one user, or not have it work for one user.

BlackDog · Post by **BlackDog** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:53 pm

or after you uninstall norton, throw it away, and get McAfee. It's better. Anybody tells you different, they are ignorant as hell.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:31 pm

I've used both...I think I prefer Norton.

One Anti-Virus I recommend no one ever get is Avast! Home Edition...Sure they update the virus definitions daily, but unlike the site says, this thing is a super resource hog...Like 6 programs are open at once, and they often start using resources at the same time...Totally slows down any computer. The site says it uses "virtually no system resources." Bull-shit.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:42 pm

ExtremeDrinker wrote:Yeah..Get an old laptop running Win2k...Those work great for editing/creating audio and video.

I wish I could afford that! But I'm about to buy a new mixer, and I'll have to buy a decent soundcard and studio monitors soon.... so I don't have the $$$.

I think I'll just follow Spazmo's advice and install a 2nd Win on another partition. I find it mildly amusing that it's probably the easiest way. :S

I use Reason 2.0 and Adobe Audition for audio, and various other things for the videos...They run great on a PII 400 laptop with 128MB RAM.

Wow, that sounds a bit shitty for Reason. The latencies were horrible w/ my 750MHz / 512MB RAM (i had tons of other shit installed tho)!

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 7:38 pm

Yeah...The laptop is only for audio and very light video manipulation...Reason doesn't run as well as it does on my main PC, but it runs well enough to work. Plus, this laptop is used to watch porno on my TV because I'm too lazy to burn all my movies to seperate DVDs, just put 4 or 5 on one disk.

My other laptop has WinXP, PIII500 128MB RAM....I use it for desktop publishing (writing, photo editing, books, etc)

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 10:00 pm

I prefer Anti-Vir, simply because it's free & light.
Does a pretty good job at keeping my machine clean as well.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 3:23 pm

well, i installed winxp home, seems to be working well enough. huraaay