"Dora Smith" <villandra@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
news:LtZ8h.1493$_H5.760@tornado.texas.rr.com...
> Explain in detail in plain English, please. If the above article is
> supposed to explain it, it is Greek to me. For example, how the ___
> would
> I know what a kernel is supposed to be? Let's leave that kind of
> language
> out of the explanation.

Not possible.
The Greek is required.
Some things just don't exist in "Plain English".

The most I can say is that it is in Layers. The Sound Card Drivers from the
Sound Device manufacturer sit between the Sound Device and the Windows
Multimedia components.
Since those drivers come from the same people as the Sound Device they
"speak the same language" and act as an interpreter which then speak to the
Windows Multimedia Conponents on behalf of the Sound Device. If any of
these get screwed up, they have to be fixed,...the hard part (nearly
impossible at times) is knowing which ones are screwed up. Most of the time
it is the Manufacturer's Drivers that get screwed up and need replaced.

Also keep in mind that all of the drivers that come incuded with Windows
(not the Multimedia Components) were supplied to Microsoft by the
manufacturers of the various devices, and Microsoft simply includes them
with Windows.

That is the plainest plain English I can put it in. It is often impossible
to be totally acuarte in the description when translating to Plain English,
although I doubt I would be perfectly accurate in Greek either for that
matter.

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed are my own (as annoying as they are), and not those of
my employer or anyone else associated with me.
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