George,
I am sorry. I did not fill you with enough information.
That is a feature ( or a bug , if you will) of TD not to show components
with visibility level less than 100.
Unfortunately, to see those it is not enough to lower the TD Min visibility
level to 0 through a registry value. It is also necessary to change your
configuration (base instance in the configuration) visilibilty level to 0
(actually to 50 or less). You can do that only using a CMI script.
I am using my hacking component to change the visibilities. You can also do
that if you download and use XPeTools set of components from
www.xpefiles.com. There is a field on the settings page of any component
from the package that will allow you to set/change the Min Component
Visibility level. Just set it to 0 or something less than 50 and than search
for a component that contains sndrec32.exe file (or use DependencyExplorer
filtering feature).
Sorry if all above makes little sense to you. If you paly with the XPeTools
package, you will understand more.
Unfortunately, I know only this hacking method to see and add the components
with vis.level < 100.
I modify the keys below:
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Embedded\Target
Designer],MinVisibility=0
You need to change only this value.
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
Embedded\ComponentDesigner],MinVisibility=0
Even though this value exists, it does not have any affect on any of XPe
Tools.
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1177238915-879983540-839522115-1003\Software\WindowsEmb
edded\Target Designer],MinVisibility=0
The same.
then restart the computer, still can not see the component.
You don't need to restart the computer. Just re-launch TD.
KM