Where is gm.dls after SP2

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sI'm trying to get around Windows File Protection. I want to replace the
original gm.dls sound file with one of my own. I did this, and that let me
use my own sounds for MIDI etc. All of a sudden, Windows invokes its File
Protection and won't let me delete or rename or write to this file.

One source suggested that a way around this is to change the cache file from
which WFP copies when it undoes my deletion or rewriting. But I can't find
it. It's not in the drver cache\I386 directory where I thought it was
supposed to be, and I can't find the dllcache directory which one source
suggested.

So I have 2 questions:
1. Does anyone know where this file is cached?
2. If I find it, it will be in a .cab file. How do I shift the original
file out and put my file in?
Thanks for any help anyone can give.

p.s. if anyone knows a simple direct way of getting DirectX to play from my
file instead of gm.dls I like to know that too.
 
I'm still in the dark about a lot of this but I've learned some stuff from
other sections of this forum. The solution I've found is to do my deleting
and copying in Safe Mode, in case anyone else needs to know. But it seems a
bit quick-and-dirty and I'm still hoping how to do this the 'offocial way'.
 
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