Windows 10 and audio gotchas

If you have Windows 10 Pro, you can disable Cortana with the Group Policy Editor. Like this:

Press WindowsKey + R to get the run box

Enter the program gpedit.msc

Browse to: Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Search

Find "Allow Cortana"

Doubleclick and disable.

DONE - D U N, DUN!

winopener said:

The only solution to get rid of Cortana & Edge is to install a LTSB version (Long Term Support Business). Tried other ways, it disintegrate something else along with Cortana.

Jan, what is the version you're using?

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I use W10 Pro.

JonUrban said:

If you have Windows 10 Pro, you can disable Cortana with the Group Policy Editor. Like this:

Press WindowsKey + R to get the run box

Enter the program gpedit.msc

Browse to: Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Search

Find "Allow Cortana"

Doubleclick and disable.

DONE - D U N, DUN!

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Jon, that does not remove Cortana but does exactly what i described above.


in regard of my question DTS HDMA suite on Win10 i assume no one uses it?

0tto said:

in regard of my question DTS HDMA suite on Win10 i assume no one uses it?

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I use it with no problem in Windows 10 pro
version 2.60.22

Just upgraded my studio PC that was Win7 Ultimate to Win 10 Pro with seemingly no problems. I have disabled most of the obvious crap and generally it seems to run as well as Win 7 did. I did install an alternate shell to make the Start menu more resemble Win 7. Everything so far works, even Audition 3.0 as before

I don't know if this is the same in the US but in Europe a much cheaper way to get legitimate Windows 10 Pro, if you don't mind doing a re-install, is to use one of the many companies selling ex OEM licenses for Windows 7 or 8 which you have to install then upgrade. They'll send you a legitimate key and a letter of transfer stating that the (usually old corporate) machine it was on has been decommissioned and destroyed and explaining which terms in the licensing agreement they're using to transfer ownership of the license. I did this for one of my systems. It worked fine, and cost about 1/3 of the price.

I'm staying with Windows 7...no real advantage for me to switch...when I upgrade my computer it will have the latest Windows version(whatever that is)..

I recently went to Windows 10 which, due to a clash its analytics didn't pick up, wouldn't recognise my DVD drive until I uninstalled some other software. Recently I got a blue screen of death announcing a reboot and during this the laptop just stopped functioning. Long story short, I connected hard drive elsewhere, reverted back to Windows 7, and the laptop fired up.

EDIT: This could be a coincidental hardware failure. I've had some rebooting and failing back on Windows 7 now too.

watsontr said:

Just upgraded my studio PC that was Win7 Ultimate to Win 10 Pro with seemingly no problems. I have disabled most of the obvious crap and generally it seems to run as well as Win 7 did. I did install an alternate shell to make the Start menu more resemble Win 7. Everything so far works, even Audition 3.0 as before

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Some special settings for Audition3? I had to use a compatibility mode otherwise it wouldn't find any audio adapetr.

watsontr said:

Just upgraded my studio PC that was Win7 Ultimate to Win 10 Pro with seemingly no problems. I have disabled most of the obvious crap and generally it seems to run as well as Win 7 did. I did install an alternate shell to make the Start menu more resemble Win 7. Everything so far works, even Audition 3.0 as before

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Some special settings for Audition3? I had to use a compatibility mode otherwise it wouldn't find any audio adapetr.

Later during the year I might want to build a windows based audio pc. I came across the Audiophile Optimizer, which is in beta for W10 Pro. Does anybody here use this already? http://www.highend-audiopc.com/audiophile-optimizer

Looks promising but I'm not going to buy this before I hear some comments about it €119,- is just to much to jump in head first. Thanks, I thought the wasapi plugin for Foobar would be enough .

Haha, sorry Jan. I have to read into this optimizer. Not sure what it all does amd if it makes a significant, blind tested, difference.

Robert van Diggele said:

Haha, sorry Jan. I have to read into this optimizer. Not sure what it all does amd if it makes a significant, blind tested, difference.

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Maybe someone wih a bigger wallet will take the plunge :violin.

This cost 119 Euro less: http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/_Software.htm

winopener said:

Some special settings for Audition3? I had to use a compatibility mode otherwise it wouldn't find any audio adapetr.

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I did nothing other than the upgrade. Unless it is only the Pro upgrade that works for this problem? My default sound device is an M Audio Delta 1010 using ASIO drivers (from memory). I don't use normal sound so the Windows audio service is disabled from auto start but can be started manually. I've tried that and that still works as well

Thank for the tip, will investigate further.
As a side project, i'm trying to cut to the bone a 50$ W10 tablet (1gb ram, 16gb ssd, 7inch) for 2ch-flac network music player only with USB dac. I have played a lot with streaming devices of all kind and had been stuck in a lot of ways... the total versatility of Foobar 2000 is still incredible.
OOTB the tablet does works well with the aid of a rj45/usb adapter, with wifi it sucks deeply... too much processes involved (quite predictable) so a slimmed down version would cut it ok.

winopener said:

Some special settings for Audition3? I had to use a compatibility mode otherwise it wouldn't find any audio adapetr.

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i installed AA3 and so far haven't had problems. i just checked and it seems during the installation AA3 was installed in Vista compatibility mode (x64)

Think this is a good resource in order to set-up and shut down too much unwanted stuff:

http://windowsafg.no-ip.org/index.html

more pages for features, power plan and services.

Think this is a good resource in order to set-up and shut down too much unwanted stuff:

http://windowsafg.no-ip.org/index.html

more pages for features, power plan and services.