A few months ago I was trying to speed up my computer by turning off services that I did not need. I am by no means a computer pro. I know more than just the basics but I was trying to be as careful as possible when turning off the services that were running that I needed.
For some reason I turned of the Audio Service on my laptop. While I thought I did not need sound, I do. I don’t know how many videos that I missed online that I wanted to HEAR. When I bought my husband a new iPod, I knew I needed my sound. I wanted to preview the songs I was putting on his iPod but couldn’t. I thought that I was going to be able to go into the Services program and just turn it back on. It was not that easy. When I tried to start the audio service I got the following error: Windows couldn’t start the Windows Audio service on Local Computer.
Luckily I am computer savvy and searched online for an answer. I found an answer that worked and I now have sound. Here is what I did. I have Windows Vista if that matters.
- Opened the Registry by going to Start, Run, Regedit
- Navigated to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/Audiosrv - In the section DependOnService, I removed all entries except RpcSs.
I then restarted my computer and had sound!
Hopefully this post might help someone else who wants sound back too!
Stefani
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