Stripped windows version.

Tanant · November 22, 2013, 7:05am

Rhino:

Tanant:

I have a dual Win 7 boot system, one is online and has all the ‘crap’, the other never sees an internet connection at all, except to activate some software, in which case I have to enable a few services and devices.

Just another option to throw out there. You lose around 8gb for the second install though.

Perfectly reasonable, as long as you’re disciplined enough to actually reboot to check your mail or watch that ebay auction.
I used to work that way for many years myself, back when “the former DAW” PC also was too weak for other demanding tasks, but nowadays, hell, my ancient ex DAW, a lowly Q9450 @ 3.2, still runs a mean Skyrim or GTA IV @ full quality with all 3rd party texture mods, not even mentioning multimedia or internet …
So I prefer to run them seperately, purely for convenience.
The DAW doesn’t even have a physical online connection, never missed it so far.
ymmv,
Rhino

Yeah I tried it years ago and gave up because I was sick of re-booting just to use the internet or play a game. But I have almost zero time for games anymore and any important internet stuff I can do with a tablet or phone. So this time around I’m really liking the dual boot system.