No audio in any browsers in Win7

TVeblen said:

Uhg. iTunes. The attack of the blue meanies.

Most likely, hopefully, iTunes has commandeered all of your file associations. You can manually go through the list of associations and change them back to the desired programs, but it involves a lot of guesswork.

Hopefully a system restore to before iTunes was installed will work. In the future, when installing iTunes, RealPlayer, Quicktime, or any other "multimedia" application say NO to any window or checkbox that asks to change associations.

If you are not fortunate, you may need to go deeper. Take a look at these links, if you have not seen them already, and see if anything mentioned there will work for you:

No Sound on internet [Solved]

The only caveat being that these are solutions for Vista. They should still apply to W7, but YMMV.

This link is the one I want to try, however it says to paste it to notepad, save it as missing.reg and import. The problem is that a notepad doc is a txt fiile. Does anyone know how I can save it as a .reg file, so I can import it? No Sound on internet [Solved]

Tried it and it didn't work... grrr. I am not sure what to do now. That made perfect sense. I had trouble doing it, so a tech friend of mine used TeamViewer and did it. He ended up copying and pasting it into win/system32. Guess I'll keep looking....

lindar37 said:

Tried it and it didn't work... grrr. I am not sure what to do now. That made perfect sense. I had trouble doing it, so a tech friend of mine used TeamViewer and did it. He ended up copying and pasting it into win/system32. Guess I'll keep looking....

Hello,

I have saved it in a .reg file. Please try it and report back. It should work though.

Good news bad news. The file worked perfectly and was applied, however, the problem still exists. I checked the mixer and still no browsers show, only the speaker (device) and the system sounds (application). This is very frustrating! Thanks so much for the file though, I'm glad to see it could work.

I ran this scan: Microsoft Fix it Solution Center: troubleshooting software issues and here are the results

Ok, I've been doing some research on my own. I'm not very savvy but here goes:

1) I went to MS Fixit and ran the program (Microsoft Fix it Solution Center: troubleshooting software issues) and got the following error report:
See jpgs

2) I looked up the errors and found "Wiindows Audio Endpoint Builder aren't running." I edited the registry per a forum suggestion: Windows Audio Endpoint Builder error

I had a similar issue where all of a sudden my audio stopped working and the Windows Audio service wouldn't run. Couldn't find anythinig on google about how to fix it but after a few hours with a microsoft support representative he fixed it.

Try going into regedit, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/Audiosrv
and in the DependOnService remove all entries except RpcSs and then restart your computer
Seems a little bit like a cheat to me heheh but it fixed my sound so it's worth a shot if you can't get yours to work.. if it doesn't fix your problem just add the other 2 dependencies back in or something.. might not be a bad idea to back up your registry before you make any changes.. can't hurt

I checked to see if everything was ok and no audio device is showing as installed, but the Device Manager showed one installed, so i thought I'd see if the driver was need. According to specs, I needed the Realtek updated one, so I installed it. I now have an operating Sound Manager, BUT it's not seeing the device plugged in.

I click on the sound icon and playback and it shows no audio devices. How to I get that to show up? I have unplugged and replugged, rebooted,... you name it. I think i've come really far and so close to the finish. Does anyone know how to show me the rest please? I'm really hoping that something here makes some kind of sense.