The rest of its short description is too technical for me and is, actually, worthless. Microsoft website informed me that it is part of Dmusic, whatever it is. In Device Manager near the bottom there is something called “M$ Kernel DLS Synthesizer”. About a week ago both my CDRW and DVDRW drives stopped functioning: neither can “see” an inserted disc and says something like “Incorrect function.

At least this one is easy to reinstall: it’s a freebie. A nice tiny program warning of bad websites called Web of Trust (WOT) disappeared twice already, in the space of three days. A day later File Recover disappeared without a trace (almost – the only evidence of its presence was a lonely Registry empty folder named “Recovered Files”. It was found by File Recover, yet no actual recovery was done because of a defect in the program (I am email corresponding with its vendor, PC Tools). Last week a subfolder of My Documents folder disappeared. In ~3wks it happened again, although the ad was different. Needless to say, I never sent the ad (about a Google product), nor was it in the Sent Box. This is the story: About 3-4 mos ago all my Yahoo email contacts received some ad email, signed by me.

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