Well got my buddy to help me out setting up Windows XP DAW Edition ( it's been 2 years time to clean the DAW out) then installed bblean shell ( does not run explorer shell)then modded my Reaper Startup- Big thanks to CQ for getting me hooked on bblean

Anyone running this super slim shell on their windows daw?

 

you know what thats what openlabs did with thier edition of xp. gutted and striped down. how is it working out for you? seems like something i would do for my other pc i built


specs:AMD Phenom II X4 965 processor 3.40 GHz
4gb ram
Windows 7 professional.

 

I'm running a stripped-down XP version as well (done with nlite, mainly killed lots of dumb services) since over 3 years, and I'm fine with it.
But replacing explorer.exe with bblean or something else sounds interesting!

Since explorer does not really eat a lot of resources on my machine, however, I'd like to know how much of an advantage this would really give us... ?

Even with my version, I can already run Mackie Tracktion V2 with all but two demo arrangements (one of them has 17 audio tracks, 2 MIDI tracks with one Sampler instance each, 5 compressors, 3 reverbs, 1 chorus) playing back perfectly without stuttering on a Pentium 3 laptop with 256 megs of RAM. The other two I only had to freeze one CPU-hungry track.
I was a bit surprised myself of how effective and still good-sounding DAWs used to be ;-)

 

Ive seen Windows XP and 7 labelled as 'Tiny'.

They are super small installs and have all the bloated features stripped.

dan yours is kinda unusual looking... is this because of the shell? I dunno exactly what 'shell' is...

 

well bblean is a linux shell but they made it for windows xp, vista and windows 7( even 64bit) microsoft should buy bblean and put it into windows 8 as it's not too late . I freakin love this shelll interface as there are thousands of bblean shell themes to choose from.

windows xp ( my buddy carlos took the daw edition and killed even more stuff on it just left network in case I need it )
It runs at idle

total system footprint including bblean

42 megs

bblean itself is a modular shell kind of like the old BEos way of tabbed shell system

Try it and run it once or delete if you hate it, it only comes with 3 themes you must go grab them it's on their webpage search google.

By the way did you see the splash for Reaper LMFAO ya that's what I want to see . lol