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Sound Recording panel frozen

Fraizerangus — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:31:45 GMT

Hi

Can anyone help me please? I'm trying to use Dragon Natrually Speaking on Vista, but when I try to select the USB microphone in the control panel/ sound panel/ recording panel. The panel is all dulled out and freezes, which I can't get rid off until the system is restarted? does anyone have any ideas of what could be wrong and what I can do to resolve this problem? much appreciated!

regards

Dan

Trouble applying sounds to programs

bill726 — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:52:00 GMT

I am having issues with changing sounds for program events. When I go to the control panel and open up the sounds item, and click the sounds tab I do not get any options for choosing programs. The only things that come up are sound scheme (which is set to windows default) and the sounds drop down at the very bottom for choosing which sound you would like to use. The programs box stays empty regardless of what I click. Just wondering if this may be a driver issue or maybe a recovery disk solve. Just for the heck of it I did a system restore and rolled back 1 week to when the program sounds were working and nothing happened.

I don't have any system specs with me besides it being a Dell Inspiron 1721 (since this isn't my machine i'm working on)

Any help resolving this problem would be fantastic

Both speakers, and earphones do not work after I upgraded from XP to Vista

ohna5454 — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:51:22 GMT

I Upgraded from XP to Vista ultimate, and all of a sudden my sound doesnt work. when i click on the sound icon on the bottom right bar, it says no audio devices installed( i even right clicked and checked off the boxes), even though both my earphones are plugged in, and my speakers are plugged in. PLZ HELP!

vista Ultimate windows media player

Gecko — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:59:46 GMT

Can anyone help me!!! PLEASE!!

I have Vista Ultimate did a fresh install on a brand new hard drive

and WMP worked for awhile and then suddenly stopped working and started giving my the message

--- "COMPONENT REGISTRATION FAILURE"

I have tried to repair media player and could not.

I tried to uninstall media player and could not

I tried to go in and delete media player and was told by my computer that I was not authorized to do that

What the HELL!

I tried to do a reinstall with a download of WMP 11 and it would not proceed because the one on my system is newer than the download

Short of doing a complete reinstall is there any hope?

and why am I not allowed to delete WMP if I want? I have it set up with only 1 user and that is me and I have full admin priv

For Sale Brand New Nextel i880 for $100

telecom23 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:21:04 GMT

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Evidently, in your hurry to post you failed to read the rules for our forum -- which specifically prohibit posting advertising for sale products.

Also, you don't seem to have a problem with multi-posting.

I'm having you banned.

[SOLVED]Problem with windows (vista home basic) sound recorder

Terahertz — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:45:10 GMT

Hi, windows sound recorder does't open and isteada pop up message comes up:

Windows sound recourder is not istalled properly.RunREGSVR32 WavDest.dll.

When I tried to run REGSVR32 WavDest.dll I got an error 0x80070005

Anaybody has an idea why this is happening?

Cheers.

Dual monitor usage ?

ncinsguy — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:53:29 GMT

[color="#2E8B57"][b]just set up my dual monitor system and it working fine. 19" HP lcd is my main and a 37" LCD tv is secondary in the lobby of my office. i can get media center up on the 2nd monitor and playing whatever but the mouse cursor stays with that monitor with mc maximized, minimized i can go back and forth. same thing happen in picture viewer while in a slideshow. i want to show pics or video on the 2nd monitor while working on the first is this possible?[/[/b]color]

No sound on Internet

xaviermerino — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:22:20 GMT

Hi!
Thanks for reading this post. I have a little problem, after installing Vista SP1, a message box appeared and said: "No audio Device", "No Wireless device" or something like that, I checked the Device Manager and those devices were disabled, I enabled them. I can listen to music in my laptop, however when I go to YouTube for example, I can´t listen to the video sounds.
I have the lastest Flash... And I don't know what to do..
Thanks in advance!

Xavier Merino

media centre

ryjo965 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:19:07 GMT

Hi, when i click on settings and go to libary setup i add all folders which contain my music. However my music isn't showing up in the music section? Can anyone help?

Vista & ATi Saphire radeon HD3870

Drako — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:40:54 GMT

Hi all,

I have a problem with this graphic card, when I run a game with better graphic details. My computer freeze for 2-5 second, next is black screen for 2seconds(as monitor is shuted down) and next is black screen while i don't stop the game. Next I see this-> [URL=http://www.imghosting.eu/view.php?img=vertrigo.JPG]
[IMG]http://www.imghosting.eu/uploaded1/thumbs2/vertrigo.JPG[/IMG][/URL]
I hope that you solve my problem(and see that image)

BTW: if this problem was solved on this forum sorry, but on system instantForum i was never been and i don't know how it control. Or if this post is in bad category please send message for me when you move it. Thank you

BTW2: I'm from slovakia, then sorry for my bad english :D

Problem with Sound on Vista x86, Funny Squeaking sound thru speakers

chada — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:59:26 GMT

Hi,

I'm Having a problem with the sound on my laptop. The laptop is custom built but I know that it uses a Mitac 8252D chasis and the sound chip is Realtek HD Audio (ALC 883). My speakers/headphones produce small squeaking sounds and some static. I think the problem is driver related. When using the R1.60 Drivers (supplied with my laptop) I get the squeaking but very good sound quality. When using newer drivers like R1.75 or R1.88 (Newest) the squeaking disappears but I get very dull sound. Some drivers like R1.87 just make the sound really funny (high pitched). The Vista inbuilt driver also makes it high pitched.

More info:
-Vista Home Premium x86
-Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2Ghz
-Nvidia 8600M GS

The laptop doesnt squeak when booting up.

Any ideas? All help Appreciated.

Chada

why does MEDIA PLAYER stutter at the start and end of every song/video

Clark_Kent — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:54:08 GMT

Everytime I load an mp3 or use media player to play a video file at the start and end I always get a stutter that makes the song unaudiable and the video unwatchable... it only lasts a few secounds but is very noticable.

All help appricated,

CK

Vista Home Premium and itunes

jdk239 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:26:01 GMT

I just got a dell inspiron 530 with vista home premium in it and all is great except when I play my itunes music part way through almost every song it sounds like some "slowed down the record player" for about 2-5 seconds and then the song plays fine. I tried reinstalling itunes and reinstalling my music just incase something got screwed up during the download and the same thing happens. I contacted dell and they tried a few things, but nothing helps. I running the lastest version of itunes 7.6. Anyone else had this problem and if so please do tell how did you fix it or does anyone have any ideas what might be causing it. All my music ran fine in my old computer running xp.

vista audio service disabled

mred — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:53:48 GMT

i can not enable audio service following procedure. any help would be appreciated. mred9535@yahoo.com

Amazing Sound through Vista PC but trouble with network streaming

Goodmane — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:59:04 GMT

I am using Media Monkey (a very good light music player) to play my music through Creative 5.1 PC speakers and Creative Audigy 2.

When I change speaker/sound configuration 'advanced' properties to share music by default at 192Khz 24bit, my PC plays AMAZING sounding music. 'Out of this world' good to my ears in fact, so I don't want to lower the setting.

Unfortunately, streaming to my Vista Media Extender, via 54Mbps wireless network, transmits DVD quality sound very well, but not 192Khz, 24 bit.

Since changing the settings to share at 192Khz 24 bit, my PC music sounds much better, but the media extender now stutters with video.

What can I do besides upgrading my network to 'pre-n' /wired please? There must be some way to set 192Khz for PC use, and just 48Khz 16 bit for streaming Vista Media Center?

Thanks!

P.S. Just to confirm, I'd like to play 24 bit 192Khz sound on the PC music program e.g. Media Monkey / Windows Media Player (or whatever can force 24 bit playback from the soundcard or something...), but only 16 bit 48Khz when streaming to Vista Media Center extender.

Thanks

Core 2 Duo, Creative Audigy 2, Linksys DMA 2100 Vista Media Extender, 54g wireless network

Aero

Pauley — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:58:11 GMT

I have a new computer that came with Vista Home Premium. Aero works wonderful, however, I do have one piece of software that shuts down Aero when it starts. The software is GeoVision (A surveillance program that utilizes cameras). It is something I need to have running all the time.

Is there any way possible I can "force" Aero to run with this software? I think it is possible because one time when I rebooted, they both did work. Although that was the only time they both worked together.

Any help, or to be pointed in the right direction would be most appreciated.

Oh, I did contact GeoVision and they were of no help. I asked if their software was compatible with Aero and they couldn't understand why i wanted to do that (groan).

Thanks again for any assistance!

Videos pixelated in Vista

crazygravy — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:54:26 GMT

Have no clue whether this is a video card issue, an Nvidia GEForce 8400M GT; an issue with the laptop itself; or the fact that it has Vista (I'm leaning heavily toward this one). What occurs is when I try to play a video off any site; be it youtube, Yahoo, TMZ, etc. it is badly pixelated. Looks like my cable tv does when the signal is weak. I have tried ripping the video to the hard drive and that does not help. It occurs no matter the player; vlc, Flash, Windows Media Player etc. It is most obvious when trying full screen mode but you can see it in a normal screen as well. My pc at work with XP and on board video works fine; thus my leaning toward a Vista issue.

I have the above mentioned video card, 3gb of ram, core 2 duo 2.0 processor.

Any thoughts?

Bob

Vista no longer plays DVD

nicthemighty — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:18:21 GMT

Just upgraded from a 7300se to a 8600gts, and now I can't play DVDs. I've changed from a vga to a dvi connection, so I don't know if HDCP has kicked in?

Whenever I try to play a DVD I get an error message "There is a problem with copy protection between your graphics card and computer" or something like that...

VLC plays DVDs, but nothing that uses the Vista decoder (or any other decoder pack I try to install).

Help?

Media Smart Extenders

bearman512 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:37:19 GMT

Just curious which extender is best? I have read all the C-Net reviews but can't say I trust them. Please give me the lowdown from experiance.

Regards Berrett

Audio 'blip'

davidscuthbert — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:33:44 GMT

Hello,

I have a problem with something to do with my audio i think.

I have a realtek AC'97. And after downloading the driver from the realtek site, due to windows not knowing what it was (!!!) i get what sounds like a power blip interference at the start and end of the sound.

When i use explorer, for instance, when the page changes, there is a small click that sounds. But on my pc i get a spike through the speakers, then the sound, and then another spike as the sounds finishes.

Any ideas guys??

Cheers

DAve

I cannot play videos in Vista

lightwait — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:18:01 GMT

Can you help?

I cannot play videos in Vista.

I am a complete newbie. I have Vista Ultimate on a MacIntosh.

Thanks in advance,

Keith

Vista ADDING vga ram.

milan978 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:42 GMT

I have 8800gt with 512 mb of ram.Vista added 768 mb to it. WHY??? From where?I think from HDD.My ram is 2 gb and its all there.How do I fix this?

Can't launch Vista speech recognition wizard.

keith11 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:17:17 GMT

Although I knew about the speech recognition feature in Vista Business I never wanted to try it until I accidentally came across a demo video of speech recognition in Vista. It seems it could save a lot of time, especially for those who work on a lot of papers and reports.

I tried to launch the speech recognition feature but an error window popped up saying the wizard could not be launched. It asked me to check if my audio hardware is working fine and if it is configured properly. I checked all my settings for audio but everything seems normal. The drivers for the microphone are installed and I can even record through the inbuilt microphone. What could I be missing?

Thanks,
Keith.

Note: There was a similar post on this forum where a user experiencing the same problem created another admin account and got rid of the problem. I do not want to create another account just for voice recogntion to work and also, it doesn't solve the actual problem.

"record what you here"

negativepitch — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:27:44 GMT

Hi,

I have a realtek card in my laptop on vista home premium,

I have the option to record via line in etc, but I would like to record a streaming sound clip, on my old sound blaster on my old comp I had the option of "record what you here"

does anyone know of a way of doing this with the realtek, by buying or downloading a program that would work on vista and the realtek card.

many thanks for any info.

steve.

Bass/Treble Adjustments

KenMan — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:58:19 GMT

Hello everyone. I just purchased a New computer and am getting really annoyed with the fact that I can't adjust the Bass or Treble with my Sound Driver. I am not a techno person I am a noob/regular user I guess... So I wanted to know if it was possible to uninstall the sound driver that I have now and if there were any that I could install that did allow me to change the Bass and Treble settings. Thanks... Here are my PC Specs

Windows Vista Home Premium with a Widows Experience index of 5.2

AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core Processor 2.20GHz

640GB on 3GB of RAM

32Bit OS NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT

Realtek High Definition Audio

how to stop songs playing in music folder?

alex179 — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:07:42 GMT

I'm helping my aunt with her computer. She has Vista. I see music files will open and play without completely opening Windows Media Player. I mean with the controls and everything. I see the music folder has the option to play files. Where's the option to stop a song from playing?

Offical Video Cards that work well with vista Topic

Jason — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:46:06 GMT

ATI Video Cards:

You Can check here to see if your ATI/AMD card will work on Vista:

http://ati.amd.com/technology/windowsvista/Products.html

Nvidia Card:

You can check to see if your Nvidia card works with Vista:

http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_gpu.html

[hr]

So far I have used

ATI Mobil Radeon Xpress 128mb shared - Great Support using the basic windows drivers in Beta 2, it was widescreen too and the support was there.

Geforce Fx 5200 64MB Onboard - Seemed to work just fine.

[hr]

[b]More confirmed cards that work:[/b]

[b][u]ATI Radeon[/u][/b]

9550/9600

X1650 Pro 512MB

X1900XTX 512MB - VIVO fully functional as of Catalyst Driver 7.6

[b][u]Nvidia GeForce[/b][/u]

5200 pci w/ 128mb ram

GO 6100

[b][u]Intel[/b][/u]

910GML Express

915GM/GMS

950

Windows Media Player keeps ripping automatically

flemmo — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:24:15 GMT

Whenever I insert a cd, windows media player goes to the rip tab on its own and starts ripping. "Rip CD automatically when inserted" is set to "never". Why is it doing this when I've told it not to? I've tried changing it to "Only when in the Rip Tab" but it just jumps from "Now Playing" to the rip tab and starts ripping. This is really annoying!

Vista - Repairing Media player

henryj — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:49:28 GMT

I purchased a Dell computer in November 2007. I came loaded with Vista.

I could play videos in Media Player perfectly

I now can not view videos with Media Player, I do hear the video playing.

Prior to this problem I ran the Regseeker program, I tried reloading the regseeker back up files that did not work.

Dell support found I was unable to access Hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\MediaPlayer\player\extention\types

The path goes to Hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\Media Player\player ….. no \extention\types.

I can not uninstall Media Player and reinstall it. I tried going to Microsoft and down load Media player that failed … I have a newer version of Media player than the down load version.

I tried down loading Vista codec, it fails, i get this message " you are unable to access Hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\MediaPlayer\player\extention\types."

I am running RealPlayer, it works fine.

Do you have a fix for this problem?

TIA

henryj

Vista Audio Problem

markzman — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:02:11 GMT

Help I have a Toshiba M100 with Windows Vista Home Basic, I recently updated my BIOS and then my windows sound scheme doesn't play anymore even if the "play sound scheme on startup" is enabled.
No startup sounds, No internet explorer sound I don't hear audio from youtube itunes etc but I can play music files using media player or other media players.
I already installed audio driver updates and still nothing happens.

high CPU using media center

side_of_ranch — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:14:21 GMT

about 20 min in or so my video starts lagging and my CPU (dual core) starts hitting 99% what could me causing this. also i have no problem watching vids in wmp or divx

Cannot find Vista driver for Intel 865 Board

mikeody — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:07:23 GMT

This might be an old topic but I cant find it.
I have an Intel 865PERL board and have just installed Vista Ultimate. All went well except I cannot get any onboard sound at all.
After 'googling' the problem it seems there are a lot of similar postings with references to the fact that Intel are not proposing to write an 865 driver for Vista.
Can anyone assist please ? Thanks.

video out to projector is out of focus

pdk100 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:02:55 GMT

when using projector and connecting vga out works fine. but using s-video out works but I can't fine focus it, tried 2 different projectors, and tried other dell laptop using xp. problem same. does it need special driver or what.

is there a solution for it. please help

thanks

Media Center help

ZachiusMaximus — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:14:54 GMT

Hello all,

I am pretty unfamiliar with media center, but I have a vision and I am wondering if it will work. I would like to utilize my blu ray player on my computer to play movies on my flat screen tv. I want 1080p for the high def movies, and as far as I know wireless streaming units do not support this. But that's okay because my tv is in the same room as the computer, so I want to get a dvi to hdmi converter cable and run it from my 640mb 8800gts graphics card to the tv, and then everything should work great right?

Thanks!

Any podcast receive software work well on VISTA Ultimate?

tbtvista — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:58:48 GMT

Most of the topics and papers I've read seem to show major or at least annoying problems with podcast receipt on VISTA Ultimate. Has any one had reasonable success with any of the major or other podcast receipt softwares on Vista Ultimate.

Audigy 2 line-in/mic issues

azcitycrew — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:30:06 GMT

I'm running Vista Business and using Audigy 2 Platinum eX. When I go to the sound panel recording tab the line-in 1/mic, s/pdif-in, "what you hear" are currently unavailable. The line-in 2 is working but its not (dont hear any sound and the level bar doesnt display anything).
I've uninstalled and reinstall the software 2 times already but still no luck. Now the creative audio console doenst work. Does anyone have a solution to this. Thanks in advance for any help.

Can't Access my Audio control Panel

Crispi — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:27:30 GMT

Hi all,

I have recently builtthe system below,andwheniinstalled the audio drivers, Soundmax for vista 64,i can't access any control panel to set up the surround sound.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Crispi

Media Player Classic / Winamp problems

ajwashere — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:13:54 GMT

My screen saver comes on while I'm watching a video.
I can't figure out why.

Looking for a good media player that can resize 4:3 to 16:9 while watching
Media Player Classic & VLC Media Player seem to work well for that. But I don't like how you can't move/delete multiple items in the play list.

I used to use Winamp and it always worked perfectly for everything.
Since I switched to vista, when I use Winamp on my secondary monitor the video runs very choppy. That's when I started trying other players.

Anyone have suggestions?

Apple Quicktime not working

Steve-B — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:46:52 GMT

I have just downloaded Apple Quicktime 7 . I just can't seem to get it to work . Every time I go and try to view a quicktime video all I see is the red X in the top left corner of the video screen . I have updated my GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 Graphics Card . I uninstalled and reinstalled quicktime twice now and still nothing . I have all the window updates .

I'm using :

HP a6110n Desktop

Windows Vista Home Premium

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.30 GHZ

1918 MB Ram

32 Bit Operating System

Not sure what else you need to know . I am not finding any more info anywhere else to help solve this problem .

Thanks for any help you can give

Steve

The problems never end/ Can't hear audio now.

hiliary — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:06:52 GMT

So, i've posted hear many times before. First I was having BSOD, then windows applications were failing, so I was posting in the general disscusions section. One computer reset later and many posts, I was posting in the virus and malware section because I thought it could have been a virus that was screwing up my computer. Now, here I am again, but in the audio and video section. Yesterday, I spent two hours on the phone with dell (this was the second time this has happened), installing Windows Vista from the CD's yet again. After the re installation, everything seemed to function well, but today, I went to youtube, and no sound. I can usually figure out problems with my computer, but these couple have got me stumped. I have also been running the sfc scan, and its been finding corrupt files, especially after installing Windows Updates, could this have any connection to my sound-less week out lap top?

The details, I have a Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop, with Vista installed.

Any help is greatly appreciated! Much thanks.