TOM'S HOUSE PARTY. I remember when my mom and dad used to throw house parties and they would stock up on food and beverages, invite everyone they knew. It was always my job to put the coats, purses, and/or personal items in the back room. Then I had to watch for my dad to give me the O.K. and that's when the party really began. I was in charge of the music and getting people to dance. Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall" album... that's right album was always my first thing I put on that TV / record player combo. You should have seen my moves! Back then I learned r&b, dance, rap, rock, motown, doo-wop and all kinds of slow dance songs. I was just about 9 or 10 years old then. Not much has changed since then. I'm still in charge of setting the mood and getting the party started with music and dancing.

Mon 10 Sep 07 @ 5:32 pm

First off, straight out of the box, Try This app. http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/

this will rid your machine of all the crap it comes bundled with...

once you're clean, go ahead and change your desktop theme to windows classic. then right click on the desktop, and choose properties then appearance, then effects... un check everything.... then close the window out...

next go and right click on your task bar, and choose properties, then taks bar tab, and select classic style. then close out.

next, go to start, then settings, then control panel, and finally, click on system. then click on advanced, then settings. in here, choose adjust for best performance..

then close out..

once you've done all this, keep your desktop clean and simple.. as soon as you choose the xp style theme, or any other theme, you're going to un-do all of your optimization. effects, animations, and such cause sound glitches.. it's a tool, save the pictures of puppies and all that for your home machine, and keep it simple on the gig machine..

make sure your direct x is up to date by downloading the direct x redistributable package from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&DisplayLang=en

this will require validation, so if you have a less than legal copy of windows, fret not.. just e-mail me and I'll hook you up with the update.

next, get and install the visual basic runtimes from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7b9ba261-7a9c-43e7-9117-f673077ffb3c&DisplayLang=en

then do the dot net updates.. get these at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?pocId=&freetext=dot%20net&DisplayLang=en

this page lists three different ones . get the update 1.x, 2.0 and 3.0 and install them all...

next, get and install the jet service pack from http://www.kjamp.com/forum/download.php?d=RoxBox&name=Jet40SP8_9xNT.exe

then do a microsoft data access component update get it here http://www.kjamp.com/forum/download.php?d=RoxBox&name=MDAC_TYP2.8.EXE

then just for kicks, do the other one... just in case your app requires it..
get it here http://www.kjamp.com/forum/download.php?d=RoxBox&name=mdac_typ.exe


UPDATE!!!! I forgot one earlier, so I've added it to this list.. You also need the visual basic common controls package.. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=25437D98-51D0-41C1-BB14-64662F5F62FE&displaylang=en

after all this, you're in good shape for running virtual dj and other apps.
all of these things you just did will eliminate the following errors

vb runtime errors
crash on column sort, and colum re-order crashes
sound stuttering on column sorts, and window opening and closing
karaoke file import errors
visualization errors
direct x incompatibilities

and many other ghosts in the machine...

You're now ready to take on the world!