And the windows 8 useless processes are ? ...

Same here. XP is good enough OS for music production. It’s shame Steinberg decided to make it inpossible to install C7 on XP. Is there really features in W7/8 which C7 needs and which XP doesn’t have?

Well … if you need more RAM, would it be less painfull to switch to 64-bit system instead of creating a network of 32-bit systems?