I'm running XP. all the files should be there, I just executed the .aveinstall package. Yep, the SoundMixer.DLL is there. I just noticed the error log, though, it says: 5009 Microsoft JScript runtime error 'desklet' is undefined Line:7 Column:2 ------------------------------- 5009 Microsoft JScript runtime error 'desklet' is undefined Line:7 Column:2 -------------------------------