Thanks to all, especially James, whose advice gave me a major clue as to what the problem was. and let me tell you, the Windows Startup music has never sounded so sweet. This will increase the time that Windows receives for performing all its other tasks, making audio interruptions much less likely. I was able to 'fix' this by following the post by hsandler in this thread: Most Obvious Suspects Audio interface buffer size: The first-choice way of curing audio clicks and pops that are due to the audio engine not having enough processing time is to increase the audio interface buffer size. Download free sound effects for your video clips, games, apps. The two hour battle with my computer virus resulted in my computer permanently thinking it was in Safe Mode, regardless of how it booted up. Maybe relevant: One thing I did do last night was 'play' with the system registry. I'm guessing there's a setting that needs to be reconfigured somewhere. The speakers, the sound card, etc, are therefore working fine.īut things like YouTube or Windows Media Player, there's no sound. Windows XP received critical acclaim, noting increased performance and stability.

One side effect is my audio is now gone.Įxcept it's not entirely gone, because when I open the Realtek HD Audio Manager in the task bar, I can play all the 'test' sounds. Windows XP Soundboard Windows XP is the first consumer edition of Windows not based on the Windows 95 kernel and MS-DOS. From See Also at the left of the window, click Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices.

I finally killed it 2 hours later, but it involved some heavy duty anti-dote. Guidelines: Sounds can be assigned to various events in Windows XP. I'm running Windows XP, and last night my PC was infected by a frustrating virus (one of those viruses that won't let you open virus checkers, etc).

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