Waves MaxAudio Service Application

[twotoedsloth]

Hello, once again I am seeking the advice of the forum! Many thanks for your patience.

I was trying to clean up my PC before the busy period here at work, and I noticed that an application called Waves MaxAudio Service Application running that is eating 330.1 megs of memory.

Would it be wise to try to uninstall this? I am using a Focusright Red16Line thunderbolt audio interface, which I assume is bypassing the Waves application.

Please let me know what you think,

Peter

[James Perrett]

I'm not sure that I'd uninstall it but I would certainly try to disable it.

[twotoedsloth]

Hello, thanks for the reply James.

I disabled a few programs from auto startup, and I went from 30% idle to 8% idle. A significant improvement. I disabled MS Teams, MS OneDrive, Waves MaxAudio and MS Edge.

I wonder if it would be worthwhile making a separate profile for music and one for email, word processing, web browsing et alia? If I make a change on my main profile, does it automatically get copied to the new profile, in which case there is no point in doing a more aggressive memory/processor adjustment?