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Are changing these registry entries the only reason for rebooting? It seems these could be changed on the fly. There is the issue of the audio system building up and tearing down the audio chain that seems would force a reboot. In this day and age it just seems a little silly to force a reboot for something as trivial as adding a link into the audio processing chain. You'd probably have to come up with a way to unload and reload the audio system to avoid it. Wonder if this is possible?

This is the Microsoft "Audio Processing Object Overview" documentation, which goes into pretty good detail about what is going on. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/audio/audio-processing-object-architecture

Two things about the wiki. First, it doesn't show Windows 10 specifically. I know that's silly, but Windows 10 is Windows 10. If I see dialogs or paths through Control Panel that don't exist any longer I do start to get a little hesitent. Second, I'm getting old enough that I don't like manually editing the registry anymore. As an aside, the solutions put forth in the wiki didn't work. I googled it and found the link above. This is a great little program but needs a little updating for Windows 10....

Two things about the wiki. First, it doesn't show Windows 10 specifically. I know that's silly, but Windows 10 is Windows 10. If I see dialogs or paths through Control Panel that don't exist any longer I do start to get a little hesitent. Second, I'm getting old enough that I don't like manually editing the registry anymore. As an aside the solutions put forth in the wiki didn't work. I googled it and found the link above.

https://appuals.com/how-to-fix-equalizer-apo-not-working-on-windows-10/ The switch to SFX/EFX as stated in Solution 1 fixed it for me. It involves a couple reboots to get those specific options to show up on the dialog.

I'll add I just installed this on a win10 box and it just flat doesn't do anything. Kind of a drag.