reboot is definitely needed!
i re-enabled everything in dev mgr, then disabled the "battery\microsoft acpi-compliant control method battery" device, and started forte (audio midi software) and the program froze.twice.
so i'm back to wanting hardware profiles.
any other ideas? i'm no programmer, but it seems i could modify an existing system boot , and have the choice of which to boot from on startup. 2 boot log choices into 1 OS.
You might try configuring msconfig to get the boot configuration where you want it. But that still leaves you with having to edit and change it for different configs. There might be a way around that.
thats what i want, multiple configs. how? lol.
yes , i disable that, both onboard sound devices, and wifi. i reboot, and all works beautifully. latency is screaming fast. i have what i want, i just want to switch between that config and full on dev mgr at startup. without a redundant 2nd operating system. the frustrating thing is MS thinks hardware profiles are antiquated, and i say they are needed!!!!!
Wish I could help more but the only thing I could suggest trying is what I wrote in post #14, running devcon at startup.
I don't see why you couldn't do your Device presets in a secondary installation which would not affect the other in a Dual Boot.
You can try it anyway by shrinking Win7 in Disk Mgmt then boot the installer to install to second partition, which will auto-configure a Dual Boot menu.
If it doesn't work out just delete the partition in Disk Mgmt, extend C back over.
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