You know, that's very interesting because I have always thought it a hidden process of media player that played them. Am I right? And why does this sound familiar? Could what happened to me and my Dell laptop with Windows 7 professional 32 bit the other week be related to this? Here's what happened. I went into the services manager (or maybe I did this with msconfig), and tried to shut down a couple of SQL server services that I suspected were causing the sluggishness that was occurring that day. I restarted the laptop and then when it turned back on, I had no sound, and then my mother and I tried repeatedly to get the audio service running again. It kept saying that the service couldn't start. So as another solution, I tried to get it to recognize my USB sound card (a creative X-FI GO with it's own set of services and enhancements), to see if since that service runs independently from Windows audio, if it could depend on that service for a while. Error again: no device found. So I'm like, figures, maybe I just need to give it a system restore, and it hasn't done that in a while now.
-----Original Message----- From: Veronica Elsea [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 9:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: loss of sound First, disabling the realtech enhancements will only stop things like extra reverb and things that most of us don't use anyway. It will not alter the playing of normal system sounds or music in any way. Second, updating any sound card will not stop these random loss of sound incidents either. In fact, neither will turning off enhancements, although I've heard several people say that Window-eyes is more stable when the realtech enhancements are turned off. And I don't think the fault lies with Realtech. I'm not using mine and the problem is still around. I think it's something down in Windows 7 which will be with us until someone on high fixes it. <grin.> I've found the names of programs that actually call the playing of system sounds, but haven't yet figured out which one goes with Windows 7 or how these programs work. But someone isn't letting go of something when someone else is calling it, that's for sure. As we have so many programs that tend to call sound in one way or another, it could take awhile to sort out the tangle. And I haven't yet quite gotten around to deciding to turn off system sounds and see what happens. I may do it though. Stay tuned! Veronica We Woof You A Merry Christmas! Diabetes Melodious! And more! Music CDs that will impact and entertain you forever! http://www.laurelcreekmusic.com Veronica Elsea, Owner Laurel Creek Music Designs Santa Cruz, California 877-607-6407 If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
