Sound Options Not Appearing
Nov 4, 2012
Since today I can no longer get the "Manage audio devices" window or "Change system sounds" window from the control panel to appear, nor will "playback devices" from right-clicking on the speaker icon on the task bar get me this screen. So pretty much the "Sound" options are not available.
And then 3.5 minutes later I will have it will magically appear.
While this is a fairly new computer it's been running fine for a bit. Only change yesterday: I installed Office 2010. I went through the update history and pretty much everything is office related. I updated graphics drivers. I shouted abuse at the computer.
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Jul 12, 2012
I have 'Acer Aspire 5755 model' laptop.Initially when I increase sound by Hot keys such as 'Fn+Up arrow' etc. system sound get increased with the sound icon on screen.However since some days, when i am trying to use these Hot key combination it is working properly but the corresponding symbol is not appearing on the screen.The problem is same for all other hot key combinations.
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Jun 25, 2011
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I have an HP Pavilion dv2911us. Another interesting point to note is that the Quickplay strip doesn't seem to be working normally. When I press the mute button, it mutes the sound, but it doesn't turn red. This also happens when I try to adjust the volume. The volume changes, but the thing that pops up to show the current volume doesn't change.
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Oct 14, 2011
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A typical folder name is:
D:1e2724ed8a00dcab784e6e241ebc4a
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