It's almost that time again to make the big clean up of my PC.

Meaning formatting both drives (I have 2) and re-installing everything from scratch.

This time i was thinking of something new.

I use Windows XP Home by the way. So here my question!

I want to make two totally diffrent profiles. Sound simple.

I want to make a Work-Internet environment profile. That is, having all the necessary drivers for this profile: Internet, Network, Printer, Scanner, Mouse, Pen Tablet and Photo Docking Station. I would put all my work related software: Norton stuff, imaging, word processing and internet related software. Tweaked for work (services included)

I also want to make a different profile for Gaming. That is, having ONLY the required drivers necessary to make my games run : Video, Sound. No internet. Tweaked for gaming.

This way, I can play my games without any unwanted drivers or other crap running in the backround.

Is there a way to make this kind of profile work! No flaming plz.

Thanks in advance!

No Internet? What about online gaming?!?

Anyway... to answer your question, you could create different hardware profiles, in which you can disable hardware and services.

Start > Control Panel > System > Hardware [TAB] > Hardware Profiles (at the bottom).

During startup you can select the desired hardware profile.

The following page from MS should get you started:

Hardware profiles

Good luck.

I understand that part, I reboot and choose the hardware profile.

But then, i would still need to select a user profile for the software settings.

Is there a way to make this work in a single operation ?

Exemple: I boot my PC and i get too choosse between Work or Play and that's it!