No more audio!

[nikolardo]

I recently messed with services.msc, disabling or setting to manual a number of services that seemed to me to be ones that I did not need to start when my computer did.
However, I guess I set to manual the Windows Audio service, which disabled my audio. It will not start. I set that service, and all of them actually, to Automatic, but it still will not start. I have no audio except for the system beep when I do something I'm not allowed to.
The only reason I haven't entirely wiped Vista from my drive (I dual-boot with Ubuntu) is for a program (TrakAxPc) which I cannot get to run on Ubuntu. However, with my audio down on Vista, it's obviously pointless to try and use an audio-mixing program.
Does anyone know how I can get my audio service back up and running?

 

[Airbot]

Do a system restore.

 

[Techymike]

Hello fellow CA person!

 

[nikolardo]

Do a system restore.

...I have had system restore turned off. Therefore, I have no restore points, and if I was to turn the service on now, I could only restore back to this point. Thanks anyway though.

 

[Airbot]

There is a list in this tutorial by Black Viper that will tell you what default the services are supposed to be set at, perhaps you've missed one related to the audio services that is still disabled.
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/59910-services.html?ltr=S

 

[nikolardo]

...i fixed my problem. i just installed windows 7 beta over it.

 

[Airbot]

Well, I suppose that's a fix, lol. Hope you have the Vista installation disk in case you ever want to install it again. If you have win7 questions, come on over to the sister site.
Windows 7 Forums

 

[nikolardo]

nope, if i'd had the vista cd, i'd have just reinstalled that. but the windows 7 seems fine.
all i have to do is get my grub bootloader running again so i can get back into ubuntu

 

[PlaybackRecords]

Hi,
I think I know exactly what your problem is.

-Control Panel
-Hardware and Sound
-Sound
-Then click on the speakers or Audio output that you want to use
-And then in the bottom right hand corner it will say 'Set as Default'
-A small tick should then appear on the logo of the select

Play something through it after you have performed this operation.
It should work - sometimes you have to leave it for a few seconds and then it will work.

Hope this has helped

Playback Records

 

[nikolardo]

maybe that would have worked, but i've already installed the windows 7 beta over vista, and that works fine.

 

[PlaybackRecords]

No Mate,

It is nothing to do with your the Program you are using.
All versions of Vista do the same.

make sure you have done exactly what I have said.

 

[nikolardo]

I'm no running windows Vista at all.
I'm running windows 7 beta now.
The audio works now because I did a complete fresh install with windows 7 beta.