[gui-talk] windows 7 loss of sound

[Don H]

Having ran the fixit program several times I can say it appears to only 
attempt to fix sound issues.

On 12/7/2011 11:46 AM, Christo de Klerk wrote:
> I Googled Microsoft fixit and what I found looks like it is a program that
> fixes around a hundred or so known problems. Whether or not this sound issue
> is one of them, I don't know, as I haven't looked at the detail yet. What I
> did see, is that it fixes file and folder issues, CD-ROMs that don't want to
> read or write and so on. From what I could understand, you download the
> fixit client which then probably does the checking and fixing via the
> Microsoft website; it does not look like it is a stand-alone program. But
> keep in mind that I have really not looked at any detail yet, but it does
> look like it is not just a sound fixing program and I can only hope that the
> sound issue is also included.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Christo
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: 07 December 2011 7:24 PM
> To: 'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] windows 7 loss of sound
>
> Does the program supposedly fix anything else?
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Don H
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 6:05 AM
> To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
> 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-----
>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> 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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