[gui-talk] windows 7 loss of sound

[Mike Freeman]

Does the program supposedly fix anything else?

Mike


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Behalf Of Don H
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 6:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] windows 7 loss of sound

I think it is a well known issue at Microsoft as they have created a program
called Microsoft fixit to address the loss of sound issue. 
Trouble is to run it requires a reboot at the end which is no better than
just doing a reboot to resolve the issue.  Having ran the Microsoft fixit
program several times I still get random losses of sound.

On 12/7/2011 7:50 AM, Christo de Klerk wrote:
> I also had the loss of sound issue from the very start after 
> installing Windows 7. With each update I was hoping it would go away, but
it hasn't.
>
> Could a factor possibly be that there might be a difference between a 
> clean install of Windows 7 and an upgrade from another version? A 
> friend of mine is not experiencing the problem and he did a clean 
> install. I went a circuitous route, upgrading from XP to Vista and then
from Vista to 7.
>
>
> This thing is so random that occasionally it happens twice on a day; 
> at other times, like now, my PC can be on for days without it happening.
> Unfortunately it has never happend when there was a pair of working 
> eyes at hand so that could investigate further. At times I thought it 
> happened some time after I had used FileZilla; at other times I 
> thought maybe it happened because Skype Talking was running. But I 
> really have not been able to pinpoint it or predict or avoid it. I 
> wish it were possible to determine some common factor on those systems 
> which experience the problem. I just know that I have only encountered
this under Windows 7.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Christo
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
> On Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: 06 December 2011 11:51 PM
> To: 'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] windows 7 loss of sound
>
> Doesn't that presume that sound/video drivers have been updated in the 
> last year? I bought this machine about a year ago and it had this 
> problem from the get-go, at least with screen-readers installed (it 
> happened both with JAWS 12 and NVDA). Of course, I was running 
> Kaspersky antivirus then and have since switched to Vipre Internet 
> Security which doesn't seem to gum up the works as much although I'm 
> doing an experiment today that involves disabling of the 
> "anti-pishing" filter and that seems to make quite a difference in 
> making the system more responsive with Outlook 2010 although I'm not
prepared to say the problem is solved yet.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Hoffman, Allen
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 1:02 PM
> To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [gui-talk] windows 7 loss of sound
>
> I think we need to focus on video drivers which include sound drivers.
> I have a box with 8gb of memory and it's happening, so would not think 
> its memory related.
>
> I have not had time to do this, but check the version of your 
> video/sound drivers, see if you can roll back a version, and see if 
> things improve or not.  If they improve we might have a winner.
>
>
> Allen Hoffman
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