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cplay 2.40 or better? New very important tweaks. (VERY LONG)

Hello, everybody!
As I almost despaired to see 2.b 40 I decided to explore what else can be done to improve the sound. I now own Lynx l22 and I noticed that its wdm driver is only 1 of several. Renaming them one by one proved that they are all necessary and that asio is not independent of windows kernel streaming. So I thought I may as well try to do smth about it. But can I, really? I read again AOBCT and found that nothing had been told about different (about 8) sound codecs that are on the system. I removed all of them, including ms pcm converter, some fraunhoffer, truespeech and others. I was heavily under belgian monastic beer and decided to go on. Next thing, I went run-regedit-HKLM and Attention, very important! not only HKLM current machine but also current user and REMOVED FROM THE REGISTRY:
all adobe entries
almost all microsoft entries in SOFTWARE
a lot of other entries from UNKNOWN.
Another entry was from NETSCAPE. But I left it, though it was very tempting to remove it. Please mind that I did it in local machine AND current user.
I rebooted my machine. The sound was so astonishingly different that first I thought I spoiled everything. 5-10 minutes later I realized I have made a change that was much STRONGER than Minlogon. In fact stronger than anything. The highs got so airy and detailed (in fact uleashed at last completely), the scene so deep, high and multilayered, I hardly find words now. Bass extravagantly defined. I call it luck of a drunk. So I suggest that folks with deeper knowledge than mine would experiment and have their say. BUT BE CAREFUL. After my blind tweaking I don't see any hardware in control panel. No devices at all. Those who are brave and wise enough, are welcome to experiment, but please report. I am listening to cmp-cplay for several days and see that a lot is yet to be done with cplay soundwise if my tweaks were directed correctly. Do these tweaks and You will see what I mean.
If You have done this (removing codecs) and I merely missed smth., I apologize for bothering you all.
Also a question for help: What is the exact syntax of bootlog file with HPET/97?? on. Does it work in XP?
Serge.
P.S. Glad to write to You all after such a loooooong pause.

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