Streamlining win XP pro for music question

Hello guys and gals I will soon be buying the EMU 1212M card and I have a spare 160Gb drive which I will partition so my question is as per topic but I would need some links to places that shows you how to streamline or disable the crap in windows that you don't need. My system isn't as new as I would like can't afford the upgrade at this point.
My core system:
CPU: P4 800Mhz HT
RAM: 2x512Mb PC3200 matched pairs + 2x512Mb PC3200 matched pairs (2Gb total)
Hard Drive: SATA 160Gb Samsung think it's 2Mb buffer (this will be the music drive I might change that to a faster model soon)
What I propose to do is as I have already a games machine and thus don't want to mess with this setup is the drive on my shelf to be put in the case but only used for audio, the drive will not be connected all the time what I mean is if I want to do music then I would unplug (before switching the pc on ofcourse ) the gaming drive SATA cable and plug it into the Music drive and use it this way, makes it a lot tidier as there aill be no internet files or other crap just music stuff and a word processor for lyrics, I know this might sound weird but this is the way I want it done.
Thanks for advice.
P.S. Is there any problems with 1212M card and Audigy Platinum running in the same machine, one more thing anyone used this midi controller keyboard: http://www.dv247.com/invt/32487/ been reading some good reviews on it.
Message Edited by RobertM on 06-15-2006 02:12 AM

Bob,
Thanks for the quick reply. So, if I understand your comments correctly, each of the CS4 apps will run with 2GB of ram and Photoshop is the only one that runs in 64 bit if I were to install Win 7. I won't be running multiple apps but plan to install 12 GB of ram to get some more robust performance out of some apps and try to avoid "out of memory" issues when working with large files.
For example, I scan drawings in TIFF format for archiving and then open them in Photoshop to convert to jpg for modification. These color scanned images are many times 36 x 48 plans @ 200 dpi and generally range from 1GB to 1.5GB in size. Oftentimes if they are in TIFF format I can't do a save as because of an out of memory alert.
Thanks again.
D

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