Few days back, I was installing/uninstalling some programs. I don't know what went wrong, but I found the links in "Computer" are not working. When I open "My Computer" ("Computer" in Vista), all the links like "Device Manager", "Remote Settings" etc are not working. It says for "Device Manager" - "Windows cannot find '%SystemRoot%\system32devmgmt.msc". However, if I run the same command from a DOS window, it exists. This is same for all the other links.
My sound icon in the task bar is also marked a permanent red cross. If I open Volume Mixer, it says - No audio device found. But I can still hear sound.
Few days back, I was installing/uninstalling some programs. I don't know what went wrong, suddenly I found the links in "Computer" are not working. When I open "My Computer" ("Computer" in Vista), all the links like "Device Manager", "Remote Settings" etc are not working. It says for "Device Manager" - "Windows cannot find '%SystemRoot%\system32devmgmt.msc". However, if I run the same command from a DOS window, it exists. This is same for all the other links. My sound icon in the task bar also marked a permanent red cross. If I open Volume Mixer, it says - No audio device found. But I can still hear sound. I don't know what to do.
I have always been able to hit a link in an email and get to another email from that link. Now I can't. Has something been corrupted or changed in my windows mail? I have gone to tools and don't see anything that pertains.
When I post a question on a newsgroup and get an email stating that I have a response and I click on the "read and rate the response" link I get a new Internet Explorer window that remains blank. It also has the word "Done" in the lower left corner. Does anyone know why? Is this a new problem in Vista? They seem to keep poping up.
I just installed Vista Ultimate to a new hard drive. After all updates I added Office enterprise 2007. When i open Word the option to send to email is greyed out. I checked the default program and it is set to windows mail, which is where i want it as I did not load outlook. Why does it not work?
I don't want windows live mail as my default email account. I wen to Set Default Programs. I'm unable to uncheck marks on MAIL-TO PROTOCOL and EMAIL-LINK START MENU LINK. how can I fix that through REGEDIT.
This has been happening for the past three days. I just recently bought a laptop, the Toshiba Satellite A305-S6898, with Intel® WiFi Link 5100. I would be just surfing on the internet and then the WiFi link would randomly just stop working. I would go to the available connections window, and the network i'm connected to would say 'Connected with limited connectivity', and then it would disconnect and then it would not be able to detect any networks, even though it previously did before. I know it's not a network problem because the same problem occured on two different networks I have set up in two different places. The device manager does not report anything wrong with it, and I did not randomly turn off the wifi for any reason. I would have to reset my laptop in order to fix the problem......
Link to 'Music' does not link on Start Menu. Its Property window does not display tabs; nor does it link to the User/Music folder. How can one repair this link?
Send "Link by EMail" feature is NOT working in IE7 anymore. It once worked fine, but no longer does. I know this is the Vista Mail Newsgroup, but the IE7 folks haven't been able to diagnose
I recently upgraded to windows vista and my SD X-Fi no longer works. I've gone through every setting possible but there is no sound. Is there some special driver I need?
Back in June I installed Vista onto my machine (prior to this I ran xp for 3 years and the sound worked). I was ok with the sound not working since I had a bluetooth headset which worked fine...It's starting to get annoying now. I have a gigabyte motherboard with AC'97 (ALC850 codec) on board sound card. The driver is up to date. I have the volume icon, and it shows my speakers in the play back device section. When I play an audio file, the green bar lights up on the speaker icon.
I can't find the thread now but I did try the suggestion of opening up the playback devices, right clicking in an empty area and showing all disabled devices...there wasn't any devices hidden. Hopefully I provided enough information, if not please ask. I really don't want to buy a sound card but it's looking like I might not have a choice.
I installed the freshest realtek drivers to go with my IP35 motherboard and my Logitech x-530 5.1 surround still wont play the center or subwolfer speakers. In Vista-64s audio settings I played around with different configurations and did wire re-assigning that didn't work either, it seems people are having similar problems. Anyone have a fix for this?
While trying to uninstall Comodo, I had an error and the computer froze. I shut it off and it wouldn't boot - not even in Safe Mode. So I used ERUNT to fix the Registry from a command prompt. Unfortunately, the latest ERUNT file was corrupted - so I had to go back about a week. The computer then booted, but I found many changes in some of my data and settings. Also, I cannot get the sound to work. I again used ERUNT from Windows with the same backup I used from the command prompt. All indications on the computer indicate that the sound is working. But when I try to test the speakers and microphone, I get a message which says there is no sound. I have uninstalled the two sound items in Device Manager and used find hardware to reinstall them. I even reinstalled the drivers. Device Manager says there is no problem with the sound items and they say they are working properly.
My sound was working fine for months. I shut my pc down to go to a lan party... got there... no sound... Booted to XP instead.... Sound works.. When I got home... no sound in Vista....
Driver says installed. Its not muted. No errors in event viewer.
I have the following symptoms (besides no sound): "Test" on Default Format results in: Failed To Play Test Tone Media Player results in : C00D11D2 (generic cant access file)? "Test" on speaker conf. results in: Failed To Play Test Tone
I had the Realtek Hi Def 1.75 drivers..tried reinstalling them...not fixed. tried installing 1.74...not fixed. tried new chipset drivers...not fixed tried new video drivers...not fixed Seems common on the web... yet not resolved yet?
When i had XP on my computer everything was working fine. I did an overlay of Vista and now any audio device with a jack won't work.. My USB headphones do... I have gone through all the playback settings, searched through all of control panel to do with sound. I have downloaded the necessary realtek drivers (High Definition Audio Device) and nothing. I have also tried plugging the jack in the front instead of the back. The speakers work on any XP machine... just having troubles with my vista machine.
I have a problem, since I rebooted my computer, (I have windows vista) HP Computer / Since I rebooted, my sound works on the computer no problem, BUT the earphone jack doesn't work. Now, the computer sees the earphones, but it doesn't work, no sound comes-out of the earphones, I still hear the sound from the computer.
What can I do to solve this problem? I have tried everything, like I said, the computer read the earphones, but no sound comes-out, even if the earphones wouldn't work, the sound would be in the earphones but if broken, just wouldn't work. Now all the earphones I tried work, just no sound! .
I just recently formatted and reinstalled Vista because i changed my motherbored and Processor so i felt like a new start. After waiting for all the Windows updates to finish i turned on some music and my Sound was messed up, i have sound it just dosn't seem to work right.On some ill be able to hear everything but the singer and on others and hear only the singer. This also effects games, i turn on my scarface seeing it was closest game near me and installed it, on that i can't hear Scarfaces voice, or the cars around me but i can hear other people speak. Does anyone know whats wrong with my sound? I use the soundcard that is built onto my motherbored because i have never had need of a Sound card in the past. my new motherbored is an MSI motherbored and my processor is Intel core 2 duo.
having no success with vista at all. It randomly freezes after a few minutes, even when just sitting on the desktop. Keyboard and mouse do not work when this happens. It has done this everytime i have turned it on. Have all up to date drivers and latest bios. The sound was working fine, but turned it on yesterday morning and now it has stopped working. When playing music, the equaliser when you left click on the sound icon in the tray shows activity, but nothing out of the speaker. Have tried reinstalling the driver but had no success, and also using different speakers.
I can hear some videos and others I can not. I can hear parts of videos and other parts I can not. For instance. On boston .com I wanted to hear video of red sox spring training. I can hear the players swinging and hittings balls but, I can not hear the commentator in the same video. Are you kidding me.Im not a happy camper.
On my Auzen X-Fi Prelude 7.1 under Windows Ultimate 64-bit, I noticed that all audio recorded by my microphone (connected via 3.5mm jack into the sound card - I don't have this problem with USB microphones) would play back heavily distorted, as if I were speaking through a spinning fan. Anyway, I thought I would post a solution that appears to work for me (so far):
1. Right-click on the volume icon in the task bar and select 'Recording Devices'.
2. Ensure that the microphone is set as the Default recording device (indicated by a white tick mark in a green circle).
3. Select the microphone and click on Properties. The microphone properties window pops up.
4. Click on the 'Custom' tab and check the box for 'Microphone +20dB Boost'. This increases the microphone's sensitivity to sound..... now play back free of distortion - test this with a program such as Applian's Freecorder. While the sample rate setting appears to 'stick', I find that whenever my computer comes out of Sleep mode or reboots, the 'Microphone +20db Boost' check box goes back to being unchecked. Anyway, if you have been frustrated by distorted audio playback from microphone recordings,
I have Vista Ultimate 64bit, with Realtek onboard sound on my mother board. However, my Quadraphonic speakers don't seem to be working as I can only get sound to come out of my front two speakers when in WMP etc. when I go into control panel, I can get sound coming out of all 4 speakers, that silly test sound.
Ive had my computer for about a month a before now its had sound perfectly. but yesterday the sound suddenly stopped working i cant work out how to fix it as im not very good at computers.
So this, has been by life for the past little while. I have a Gateway M520 laptop, wich had XP on it, and i upgraded to vista. When i did that, I lost my sound. I have spent hours on the net, on the manufacturers websites, in random forums, Only to not find an awnser, and be left without sound. Nothing is muted, All drivers are supposedly up to date, tried uninstalling/re-installing, Tried letting windows update do it.............no luck. Seriously about ready to take a slegehammer to my laptop, lol.
when i want to watch movies which are avi files on my lcd tv using an hdmi cable, i am unable to get sound from the tv, so i am watching the film on my tv but the sound comes from my laptop. i know that i can get the sound from my tv as i have done in the past but i have no idea why i cant now.
I have a HP pc with onboard sound - analog and coax digital out. I'm using neither, I have a USB DAC connected which is working just fine. However, on a lark the other day, I went into the audio manager and "disabled" the Realtek digital sound option (which I wasn't using anyway at this point, but it was fully available to be configured and I had experimented with it before - it worked fine!). I fully expected the choice to just "grey out" when I selected disable. In fact, it totally vanished from the panel. Never to return. I tried a system restore but that didn't bring it back. I reinstalled the driver, no luck. This isn't affecting my use of the system (it's a music server - iTunes serving my music to the DAC and out to my audio system), but it's very annoying to have something "disappear" and not easily undone. And if I swap the system for some other household use, I'll want the digital sound back. The analog sound output option was not affected by any of this.
This is a Vista issue because the unit works fine on an XP machine. Vista seem to recognize it and install the drivers when it's plugged in, including the message that the device has installed successfully. The only thing I can think of is that the drivers are bad. I've remove the device from device manager and nothing seems to help
when I play a game and listen to music at the same time, this led me to belive that there was something wrong with the onboard soundcard that i have (RealTek) but after updating that, every possible driver that i can think of (Sounds, Graphics, WLan, CPU, you name it) I am still getting the issue......................
I recently Got vista home premium 64 bit and my microphone is not working. It says microphone is connected and working. (not a headset), but it is not recieving any sound. My speakers do work. I have a x-48 ds4 motherboard, by the way. All drivers are updated, it just doesn't work.
i installed Windows vista from xp. The sound don't work anymore. In the device status it says this device is working properly. What should i do to fix this? Please help me.
Although the built in speakers in my laptop work perfectly - music, dvds, videos, etc. - my vista default sound scheme has stopped working. It was working previously and I am at a loss to understand why it has stopped. I have checked that the speakers are not muted, ensured that the levels are properly set, checked that I have the most up to date driver, etc., etc., etc. None of the sounds work, including the start up, normal alerts and so on. When I go to the sound scheme and test individual sounds they do not play, however, if I open the individual sound files they will sound in media player. I know there is an expert out there somewhere who will know what to do.
