Dave-H

@heinoganda Just used the new updater for the first time, and thanks from me too! Just one thing puzzled me, on the English translation, one of the options to select is labelled "Raue", or possible "Rave", which presumably is still German. "Raue" seems to mean "rough", and "rave" means, well "rave"! What should it be?

Thanks, I don't have the front panel jacks connected. There are only two on my case anyway, green (presumably for headphones) and red (presumably for a microphone), so a line in wouldn't be possible there anyway without using a non-standard colour jack. Not something I need anyway! So, are we done?

IIRC you have to install 4.5.2 as said, and then update it with the files in the 4.5.2016.18 package, which is the most recent that has all the necessary files in it. 4.5.2016.19 and 4.5.2016.20 just contain updates to some (but not all) of the dll files. 4.5.2016.20 just contains an updated kexbases.dll for instance.

Have you "lost" any of your contacts on Skype 7? I noticed a week or so ago that one of my contacts had reverted to "Messaging disabled until request is accepted" and says that they haven't shared contact details with me. This is nonsense as I've been exchanging messages with them for months, and they still appear as an active contact on my Android phone app, and on my copies of Skype 8! Just today I've noticed that another of my contacts has dropped off Skype 7 in exactly the same way, so I'm wondering if they'll all now go one by one! If I message them from another Skype version the new messages still appear in Skype 7, but I can't reply there any more.

VolumeWidget=$0C had to be set in HDAcfg.ini for my system. Yours may be different of course, but try that and see if waveout.exe then changes the volume (after a reboot of course).

Hi again, yes that works fine! It was Line In 1 that I had to enable to get sound from the capture card, and it works perfectly. I'm not sure what Line In 2 actually is, there is only one physical line input. My previous motherboard, which was a X7DAL-E, not an X7DAL-E+, with the AC97 hardware, did have an "Aux" input socket on the board, physically the same as the CD audio input socket, in addition to the Line In jack on the rear, so perhaps that's it in some configuration. The X7DAL-E+ doesn't have that socket though.

My Skype Desktop 7.36 is still working, but also doesn't now want to connect apparently. It was fine yesterday morning, although it did take a while to connect. When I tried it later in the day it wouldn't connect at all, and still won't now, although it does seem to be working! I can read and post messages fine still, despite the permanently rotating "connecting" icon.

Thanks again! I will test tomorrow and let you know how it goes. Cheers, Dave.

Great, glad to hear of another success! Waveout.exe is the volume control program. You can set the left and right levels with the two sliders on the right hand side of the window, after you've clicked the button at the top to load the device information. The sliders aren't ganged together, but you can easily check the balance is correct as the left and right level parameters are displayed.

Just to confirm what we already know, I noticed this in my Windows System event log from my earlier attempts to use the later engine file - Microsoft Antimalware has encountered an error trying to load signatures and will attempt reverting back to a known-good set of signatures. Signatures Attempted: Current Error Code: 0x800700c1 Error description: Microsoft Antimalware is not a valid Win32 application. Signature version: 1.293.45.0;1.293.45.0 Engine version: 1.1.15900.4 And - Microsoft Antimalware has encountered an error trying to update the engine. New Engine Version: 1.1.15900.4 Previous Engine Version: 1.1.15800.1 Engine Type: Antimalware User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Error Code: 0x8007007f Error description: The specified procedure could not be found.

general.useragent.site_specific_overrides is set to "true" here.

Of course the danger is that eventually MSE will stop working again because the engine will be deemed to be too out of date!

I tried copying the engine version from my Windows 10 installation, which is version 1.1.15900.4, to the MSE folder, and what happened was that when MSE restarted, it restored the original version, and the old definition files! When I just replace the definition files it seems to be fine, so beware trying to update the engine version!

I was almost joking earlier on when I said can't you just copy the necessary files across! Perhaps that might be true, great if it is. I have exactly those files sitting in my Windows 10 installation from the Windows 10 Windows Defender, so I guess they might work in MSE and will always be up to date!

Thanks again, works great and I even think the quality is a bit better now! Also the analogue CD sound works perfectly! Just one request, I would actually find it more useful if the Line In audio worked rather than the CD audio, if that's possible, as I have an old analogue DV video capture card connected to the line input, and it would be good to be able to hear the sound from that again. That would be much more useful to me than the CD sound. Cheers, Dave.

I've always had that same problem with a few videos on my newsfeed. The vast majority play automatically inline, but a few don't, and as you say when you click on them they open expanded but still won't play. I think it's something to do with their sources, and it's an intrinsic problem that's nothing to do with the browser. Perhaps they're too deeply linked or something. Next time I'm aware of one in my feed, I'll have a look in Firefox 66 on Windows 10. If it's the same there there's presumably nothing that can be done about it.

Of course, silly me!

I found Panda to be very similar to Avast when I tried it a while ago. This is off-topic for this thread anyway, which is specifically about MSE, not possible alternatives to it which is a discussion that could go on for many pages! There's are threads all about XP-compatible AV and security programs here and here. (The second thread is specifically about Avast).

I'm not taking about the old XP Windows Defender, but the one that comes with Windows 10. A very different animal, but it may still share the same definition files with MSE.

Silly question I'm sure, but the latest definition for Windows Defender on Windows 10 is 1.293.45.0. I presume that can't be used in MSE? I only very recently started using MSE on the XP side of my netbook because its original AV stopped supporting the last XP compatible version of its program. I don't know much at all about how its updating system works, but surely it's not just a matter of copying files across to make MSE think it's got the latest version?

This is what I get if I try to access Sourceforge - Github access is OK, although the pages look a bit of a mess!

Here you are. HDAICIN.TXT HDALOG.TXT

I tried the new file, and it seems to work fine. Strangely, the quality on some of the system sounds seems a bit rough now, but I don't know if that's worse with the new file or not. Playing music tracks, both MP3 and WAV, sounds fine though. I'll have to try and do a comparison. I'm definitely not using HDARUN, which doesn't sound like a good idea from what you were saying! EDIT: I tried reverting to the older hdaicout.hda, and the sound quality is exactly the same. It's mainly the system sounds like the ringing tones and chimes which sound rough. One thing I have noticed is that with the old file there are two "pops" from the speakers as the desktop loads, with the new one there's only one!

I just downloaded this and ran it, and although apparently nothing happened visually, it did work. I thought those files didn't work on XP any more? Anyway, I guess that's the last one. Microsoft Update offered a definition update, but always failed with error 0x800700F, which is something to do with failing a licence check. MSE itself goes through the motions and then fails with an unspecified "network problem". The definition being offered by MS Update was 1.293.20.0, which is later than the one I just installed, which is 1.291.2489.0. I don't know which one is actually current (there seems to be a big gap between them!) but MSE seems happy at the moment that it's up to date.

Thanks. I don't think I've got HDARUN.EXE actually running now. Mytimer is set to "1" in hdacfg.ini. Is it actually what the driver readme files refer to as "activate.exe"? Was its name changed perhaps?