Multimedia Class Scheduler

I started getting a series of ting sounds from Windows every few minutes today, which continued after rebooting. Checking in the Event Viewer, the only thing that is reported in the last hour, is 12 instances of reports, half of which speak of this service stopping, and the other half about it starting.

Since I'm not using any kind of multimedia devices or apps at the moment, I find this rather confusing. Any ideas on how to handle this?

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No, I have not installed anything in a time frame that relates to this. The time interval between the on/off cycles are not precise, they vary between 1-5 minutes, which seems to make it unlikely that they are scheduled tasks. If this service is supposed to be off shortly after booting, then the anomaly is that it is starting up at all. Besides what you have already stated, can you think of any other reason that might be at the root of this problem?

Thanks, but I tried that before with no luck. I think that I know what the problem is...I was having a problem sending mail through Gmail, as I had once before some time back. Even though the settings were correct, I kept getting a 5.5.1. error, while I continued receiving mail normally. Previously, I used a method provided by my email client's maker (The Bat!), to create a Gmail account using an email address ending with @thebat.net. At first, that made two separate accounts in the client, both of which functioned properly, but then for some reason, the bat account disapppeared, and the Gmail account continued to work.

When I tried that this time, the two accounts remained in my client, but the account username to the Gmail account had been changed to the bat username, and neither accounts seemed to work in either direction. I then edited the username to the original in the Gmail account, and it started working again, so I set the bat account not to check for email.

I don't know how, but I suspect that both accounts were still trying to connect to the Gmail account, and Gmail's server thought that my ID had been stolen. Either that, or Gmail has decided that they don't like The Bat! anymore, because in some circles, it is considered to be a spamming client, because It is so full featured that it can be used for almost any purpose.

I re-enabled the bat account to check for email, and that account is still working, but the problem is that I have no access to the thousands of messages that are in my old account. All that I need is one account that works, and gives me access to my email archive, whether old or new. However, the only way that I can think of to do that is by direct contact with Gmail, which doesn't seem possible, since they are requiring a mobile telephone number to text by.

Thanks for the link, it does seem to illustrate the problem, but doesn't provide a viable answer for me, because I not only do not have a cell phone, I don't know anyone that does. This situation is not one that should ever exist, regardless of what caused them to block the account. With most anyone else, you could either call or email someone, and clear up the problem in no time. I guess that my old account is permanently dead, and now I have to decide whether to use my new Bat account, or the one from my ISP, because if at some point in the future, some server decided that my Bat account had suspicious activity, I could lose a few thousand more emails. I can't remember the year that I established my Gmail account, but it was back when it required an invitation to do so. I believe that I have 15,000 emails archived, that are now dead and gone, except that I have them on my client...until something goes wrong with that.