It does. The difference may or may not be perceivable to everyone.
If you are talking about the well talked about optimizer software, AFAIK there is no need for guidelines. There is documentation that you can simply follow.
I haven't used audiophile optimizer, but I use another pc optimization software that also comes with its own interpolator. It is called xxhighend and it sounds fantastic.
Xxhighend is very good. I have used it in the past. Similarly there are innumerable tweaks to Windows OS including running an exclusive stripped version either as standalone or as a separate boot partition to
Please try member @keith_correa optimisation software for Windows. In my experience it works better than Audiophile Optimizer. It drastically reduces noise floor while not having weird behaviours like AO.
It's NLA. There is some amount of knowledge needed about the working of Windows to configure it and understandably not everyone has that knowledge so...
It's NLA. There is some amount of knowledge needed about the working of Windows to configure it and understandably not everyone has that knowledge so...