If any of you have realtek sound manager you may or may not know how to do this.

If you open the menu up for realtek and click on the sound effects button it will come up with option to changes bass etc and make it sound live or different effects. On the left handside it says Karaoke, with a head with a speech bubble coming out. If you press the speech bubble it will have a X appear. This cuts of the lead vocals in the song and leaves you with Karaoke or instrumentals. It works better on certain songs you still get some vocals leak through. eg, The scientist and trouble just sounds like a live version, Talk and Fix you and yellow you cant really hear the vocals. It isnt brilliant but is better than the half arsed instrumentals you get on youtube.

 

http://www.download.com/Realtek-AC-97-WDM-Driver-Windows-98-Me-2000-XP-2003-/3000-2120_4-10238712.html

 

It can be dwonloaded from here.

Thanks Glen, downloading it now. Let's have a play...