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In Reply to: RE: Cplay 2-41 or better. New Very Important tweaks part 2 posted by steppe on August 17, 2011 at 05:48:57
Hi SergeI'm working through your new hit list of files to disable, and I discovered MSACM.DLL & MSACM32.DLL in my system32 folder... but no instruction from you to deal with them.
Is this something you tried already, or another two candidates for exclusion ?
BTW, thank you so much for starting us down this road of improvement !
Cheers,
GrantLATER ON: haw-haw... answered my own question. In my system, Windows complains on bootup without MSACM32.DLL (the other one seems of no consequence, so I left it disabled)
EARLY LISTENING: I agree with other posters here - nice uplift to SQ in my room too. Excellent results from your research Serge ! Can there be any more left to uncover ???
That's not a Toy... IT'S A TOOL !!
Edits: 08/17/11 08/17/11Follow Ups:
Didn't come to it yet
I discovered MSACM.DLL & MSACM32.DLL in my system32 folder . . .As Serge noted, "Also there are two DRM descramblers, that I don't know how to remove yet".
If he means (as I'm sure he does) MSACM.DLL & MSACM32.DLL, neither do I. If you do delete them, Windows will almost certainly fail on boot - the Internet is awash with scary warnings about this. (Ever curious, I renamed msacm.dll and couldn't access my headless box on restart. I switched it back and all was OK.)
Just for the record, I've now deleted the listed files on two cMP^2 boxes and, yes, the SQ improvement is very marked in both cases. This is a VERY worthwhile "tweak". Good work, Serge!
Edit : On my cMP^2 systems, the "Search" function doesn't work because something or other is missing. If you get the same, open a Command Prompt window in \system32 and type Dir audiosrv.dll /s to find all instances of audiosrv.dll (/s searches sub-folders) then delete them. Repeat this for each file - very quick.
Edits: 08/18/11
even on my office computer where nothing has been removed from WINDOWS, SEARCH will only find the basic files where COMMAND PROMPT finds the "other" files.
Whether this makes any difference sonically I cannot say since I just discovered this new tweak today. Can't wait to get home and give it a try.
Serge/STEPPE is the man of the season on the FORUM this summer of 2011.
Thanks for letting us know the results of your inquisitive mind!!!
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