Yep used some fine tweeks.. like desabling all unused serviçes, net stuff, games, etc... works much better... ALso I use one WIn XP in a diferent partition JUST 4 music (the one where I did all the tweaking)!!!

PS- I ended up using the normal fat 32 instead of ntfs, ... 2much arguments from each side of the barrier so I figure there ins't that much of an absolute certainty if this is really better or not!

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