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Adobe Flash Player 32.0.0.465 (possibly the last one...) is out!

The onboard audio hardware may be disabled, especially if it's a used machine. The previous owner may have had it disabled as they were using a plug-in sound card. Check the motherboard manual for relevant jumper settings. It would be very strange for it not to appear in Device Manager in some way if it was enabled and working.

Thanks. I'll go ahead and do that. There are about 5 devices with the exclamation point in the yellow triangle in Device Manager and I know one is the LAN card and one is the TV Tuner card. I thought the others might be the card reader but now I think not because there are 4 extra removeable drives listed in My Computer and that's the number of slots the card reader has. So I think the install handled them. BTW, I'm learning some knew stuff here as my other system (daily driver) was an overlay (upgrade) over WinME and this one is a clean install. I see now that the install handles those situations differently. That was unexpected. Also see that you have a triple boot system. So do I. The daily driver has Win98SE on one drive,WinME on another drive and WinXP on another drive. One of the nice things about that is when XP won't let me do something in it, I just boot over to ME and operate on the XP drive from there. Bet you do the same thing. Plus there's the advantage of playing older games that don't run well or at all on the newer systems. I'll let you know what happens about the VEN_10EC id if it's one of the instances listed in Device Manager under Problem Devices.

WOW! Now I'm beginning to think the Office team forgot they were supposed to end support... SHHH!!! Let's not tell them... In actuality, these are once again RCE bugs, so crossing my fingers there are more in January so we get more updates!

I would check the hardware IDs of all the unknown devices. If any of them contain VEN_10EC they are Realtek devices. You've enabled the onboard audio in BIOS, but still check that there are no jumpers on the board to physically disable the hardware.

If you have an unknown device in Device Manager and haven't installed all possible updates, you may need to install KB888111 or hdaudiobus.sys before the device will appear under audio. That component is included in the Realtek HD Audio Driver R2.70. These drivers are widely available on then web.

Windows XP x64 Edition = NT 5.2 (Server 2003 x64), essentially couid be considered a 'consumer edition' SKU of sorts as a response to the Athlon 64's release to home users. @TECHGEEK Pentium D is horribly inefficient, but yeah Windows 7 definitely tends to be a hog compared to Vista SP1/2 (as @Dixel pointed out, SP1 performs pretty decently, it's just the RTM that has issues which were mainly hardware related at the time). In fact 7 is honestly just a marketing term for a re-issue of Vista...

Have you tried doing a search using the device ID? That's usually the best way of finding drivers in my experience, especially for older hardware and/or operating systems.

Five more updates today! KB4486698 - Office KB4486742 - Outlook KB4484372 - PowerPoint KB4493140 - Office KB4493148 - Excel The updates still keep coming!

For analysis of specific files, VirusTotal’s website would be my suggestion: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ Legacy versions of Malwarebytes Free are also good for on-demand scanning and PUP removal, however some very old versions no longer receive definition updates. Other XP users should not be alarmed, because the last version to support XP was actually Avast 18.8, which I have recently used on Vista and it still gets definition updates. IDK the last version to support Windows 2000 though; this might perhaps be bad news for that OS.

The explanation MEGA gave a while back for it sucking in Firefox is that Firefox doesn't support writing files via HTML5 FileSystem API. Of course, I agree that using JavaScript to download files is not a very good experience. In Chrome, it doesn't download it to RAM but to the disk using the HTML5 API, but the experience in the web browser still isn't great unless you have a fast machine. The MEGA client on the other hand isn't bad though - it's lightweight, fast, not updated constantly, it downloads extremely fast and the context menu verbs it adds disappear without bloating the context menu once the client is exited. I have MEGA accounts of 50 GB from when they were giving away huge storage for free and I guess plenty of people grabbed them. That's why it's somewhat popular. For that matter, there's also a long-standing bug in Google Chrome when downloading big files from their own Google Drive which causes huge file transfers to fail abruptly. Strangely when using Firefox to download from Google Drive, the bug doesn't exist. OneDrive is also a good alternative, even for that, I grabbed 25 GB accounts when they were giving those. But then I trust big brother Microsoft less than big brother Google. That's why Mega. Dropbox's free accounts suck IMHO. I don't know any other reliable service still around for years offering big storage in free accounts. As for download speeds, MEGA gives some impressive speeds. But so does OneDrive or Google Drive due to their distributed network of datacenters all across the globe. Just my two cents.