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well ... I think I sort of found the answer myself. Turns out that there isn't a seperate process loading the mixer, but in fact the mixer .exe is being loaded along with the drivers. Problem is that even if I remove the mixer entries from the .inf file & they no longer show on the device...

start up regmon.exe & filmon.exe (from system internals) & click cmdninst.exe ... you'll see that it processes a bunch of startup stuff. Unfortunately, not what I'm after. However if I could find where it is invoked, it might lead me to what I'm after ...

the mixer is actually loaded via an .exe. It could just as well be the standard file sndvol32.exe ... lets try another tack. Another task that runs at the time in question is cmdninst.exe ... where is this specified?

thanx again Karl ... but again you don't quite understand what I'm after. Yes MSCONFIG of course displays/manipulates registry keys, & yes I could not have the volume control not show by unchecking it ... etc I don't actually load the volume control, but rather a "non-standard" audio...

Thanx ... but you're missing the point of my question :-( The audio mixer load is done prior to processing the ...\run &...\ run services keys in the registry. If you ctrl-alt-del just after the blank desktop screen comes up, you will see the mixer being loaded prior to any other tasks, along...

I need to find the registry entries (or other startup files) which define/initialize the volume control or audio mixer which ultimately shows up in the systray. Because this is loaded prior to the gui, the details are proving hard to find. Can anyone point me to documentation describing the...