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Old 01-20-2020, 05:17 PM   #1
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Default Windows 10 64 bit Or Stay in Win 7 64 bit ?

I am getting back into to the DAW Audion Recording World and things have changed a bit.

As an old PT user everyone when I was using PT Stayed we all stayed at Win 7 64bit/. With the understanding that all updates are stopping for Win 7, I upgraded to Windows 10 64b, but as an IT professional I can say with certainty that Win 10 is Microsoft's attempt to gather meta data & activity data on ALL of their users, similair to Facebook.

I have software that monitors firewall out bound attempts by software package. Windows 10 is constantly taking up band width trying to send massive amounts of data back to Microsoft. This eats up internet bandwidth, and processor resources.

Is everyone using Reaper on Win 10, or are they holding at Win 7 64b? And if most are using Win 10, what are people doing to mitigate the op systems constant usage of internet band width and CPU usage?

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Old 01-20-2020, 05:32 PM   #2
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Windows 7 will work faster in old hardware, but at some point you need to update to windows 10 for new hardware. Windows 7 also got the telemetry features installed in some of the updates.
I think in both you can disable or minimize a lot of it. Probably not everything. The only way is to go offline.. and have another computer for Internet. Linux would be the best if you are worried about it.

What firewall software do you use? Is there an open source firewall for windows? I haven't found any, there must be a good reason. I don't know if any software firewall could be really trusted, including the windows firewall of course. Once I blocked svchost, and it tries to connect to Internet all the time to many different IPs. svchost aggregates many different services under it and it makes difficult at least for me to know where the traffic is really going to. It's all a mess.
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Old 01-20-2020, 07:08 PM   #3
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During install of Windows 10, there are many questions it asks if you would like to participate in this and that. By default, everything is turned on allowing it to send all kinds of data back to the mother ship. I always turn everything off. Not that it's never going to send data, but at least I turned off what I can. If you have a pre-built PC, you can assume that all of it is turned on. Install Win10 yourself and you know that you turned it off.
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Old 01-20-2020, 07:54 PM   #4
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Default Response to Heda's Question About Firewall Blocker

I am currently using Glasswire https://www.glasswire.com/ free version.
It's a little taxing on the processor, but its a very good start to get an idea exactly which software and how much activity there is.
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Old 01-23-2020, 12:46 PM   #5
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One can also use this as a guide to speed up win10 - http://www.blackviper.com/service-co...onfigurations/

TinyWall is also a good lightweight firewall, basically just a better interface for win10 own firewall.
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Old 01-23-2020, 01:11 PM   #6
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If you're concerned about privacy and data collecting, keep your machine offline. Alternatively, Reaper runs fine on Ubuntu and can even load VST's with the help of Carla, though some activation software like Native Access won't work.

The majority of the telemetry stuff can be turned off in Win10 as well. In particular turn off background apps and pretty much anything you find under "privacy" in PC Settings.
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Old 01-23-2020, 07:45 PM   #7
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I am using Windows 7 Pro
Our home has Windows ten
I will go forward with Windows 7 on my audio computer
Why
I am pretty much pleased with Windows 7 and what vst's I have and I have plenty
My music does not go over 40 tracks on the screen.
I plan to stop purchasing new programs.
I plan to knuckle down and work on my music and
avoid needing new gear (apart from Hardware!)
A side note many manufacturers in the Audio recording business are now going on the rent idea this will become the norm as they seek to sunbathe on the Mediterranean sands and while it is not my business I would prefer to own.
My gear thus far is running well aside from replacing my Orpheus if it goes belly up which I hope it will not it is a great piece of work.
I do have an emergency copy of an update to Windows ten on a flash drive....
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