Originally Posted by
Miromiric
you can divide your laptop in 2 sections - one for your DAW, chatting away with teenagers on icq, porn surfing etc and other section which you would use only when playing out.
you want this other section to be as clean as possible, without any, and i mean ANY unnecessary processes. what you can do about it is to change the default windows shell (better known as explorer.exe) with ableton itself. so, each time you boot this windows OS, ableton will start up automatically and as the only existing process. this means absolutely all the memory will be free for ableton and that there will be nothing loaded in the system that can cause a crash.
so, install 2 separate windows systems; reboot, choose one of them, log in and install your soundcard. open the run command (start - run). type gpedit.msc, which will bring you to a console 'Group Policy Editor'. under 'User Configuration' / 'Administrative Templates' / 'System', there is a setting called 'Custom user interface'.
select enabled and paste a path to your ableton program file (like this C:\Program Files\Ableton\Live 6.01\Program\Live 6.01.exe).
reboot.
behold.
100% working, tested, never had a crash, while the same program crashed in normal windows mode on few occasions.
if you wish to revert this, hit ctr+alt+del - run new task - gpedit.msc and tick disabled under 'Custom user interface'.