<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Rebuilding the desktop is a procedure from the Classic Mac OS days and does not apply to Mac OS X, which I presume you're using since there are no versions of VLC for OS 9. However, since the process was used to refresh associations between files and their parent programs, you can achieve the same using the freeware app "Onyx" (<A href="http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html">http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html</A>) to "Reset links between documents and applications" under the "Automation" tab. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Tony</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 22-Jul-06, at 2:58 AM, Glen McKnight wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><DIV><DIV>On 22 Jul 2006, at 02:44, mgilman wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:18.0px">Things have been been pretty weird since downloading VLC to watch dvds as told to do so by people on this list. I use Digidesign Pro Tools and Propellerheads Reason to record music but have needed to reinstall both and still after running all my diagnostics and optimizing I still have a problem that my firewire EZQuest drive is suddenly an "invalid audio record volume" or something to that effect. <B>I want to try rebuilding the desktop but I need to know which are the right keys to press on startup?<BR> </B>Thanks....</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>