Building Custom Cabinet

[bkenobi]

Actually I am recommending not running a virus scanner...sort of.

If the person building the cabinet has a specific task in mind, say playing emulated video games , and it doesn't include anything that requires network access, then sure. If the cabinet is likely to be used for an internet terminal as well (especially for unknown or inexperienced users) then go ahead and add a virus scanner. While it doesn't use any resources when it's just sitting there, if it kicks in and starts scanning files, you will definitely notice since the drives will start to slow (if your accessing them or using the system bus) among other things.

As far as the windows components that slow down the machine, I agree that there are a lot of programs running at any given time. I am simply suggesting though that if you watch the resources they take up, they are minuscule... Except for a few big hitters (indexing service is one example). But, the network and automatic update stuff don't run unless you are regularly using the network and/or have them enabled inadvisable.... When it does (on my cabinet anyway) it's through another account via terminal services.

But, like I said a few posts back, if you can spend the same (or nearly the same) money on a dual core 64 bit machine as a single core 32 bit then there isn't a choice. As far as memory, more is almost always better

[Will]

Sure. I mostly agree.

Will