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After a power-down because of the threat of thunderstorms, I got the topic message and the speaker icon on the control bar had a red x when booting back up.
I started poking around a bit, changed nothing, and then rebooted. The red x went away but still no sound.
According to services.msc, both 'Windows Audio' and 'Windows Audio Endpoint' are both running and both are set to start automatically. I've restarted both several times to no effect.
Device manager shows current sound drivers.
Windows on-board audio troubleshooter still says 'Audio services not responding.'
Speakers are plugged into headphone jack; they work fine when plugged into my laptop.
Next steps?
(Windows 10; all updates current. Vanilla Dell 660)
Edited by geeceem, 21 April 2019 - 09:35 AM.
When you open your computer, and find and red X on your sound icon, and when your mouse touches it, it shows you the words 'The Audio Service is Not Running', you cannot use it.
So if you find your computer had this problem, try to following the next steps to solve it.
1. Type Computer Management in Search Box and open it.
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2. Branch the Services and Applications, choose Services item.
3. Find Windows Audio name.
You can see the Windows Audio status is not showing as running.
You can see the Windows Audio status is not showing as running.
4. Right click it and choose Start to run the Windows audio service.
Follow this way to make sure Windows Audio Endpoint Builder service status is running.
If this cannot help to solve the Windows audio service not responding problem, doing the next things.
5. Double click Windows Audio to open Windows audio properties, and find Dependencides tab.
6. Branch all the Windows Audio services.
7. In Services window, find all the services such as DCOM Server Process Launcher, RPC Endpoint Mapper, and make sure these services are running.
After that, most of all people can solve your problem.
And if not, try to update Windows 10 system. Following Settings > Update & Security > Check for updates to update your system.
Summary:
If these steps cannot help you, try to uninstall and reinstall the Realtek HD audio drivers. You can open device manager or use Driver Doctor to help you. After restart your computer, follow above steps to try again.
Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.If these steps cannot help you, try to uninstall and reinstall the Realtek HD audio drivers. You can open device manager or use Driver Doctor to help you. After restart your computer, follow above steps to try again.
My audio stopped working this morning out of the blue. I had recently updated Windows 10 to version 1803 and have read a couple of articles that say it's somehow related to it. But it was working yesterday and I did the update a week ago without having any problems whatsoever.
I know that it's complaining about the services, and my best bet is to look at the windows services.msc, so I found out that
Windows Audio
was set to automatic but did not start. And whenever I try to start it, I get a 0x8007005: Access denied error
. Which then led me to another article and told me to go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServiceswcncsvc
and change the permission to full grant
. But I still am getting the access denied error anyways.Computer Audio Services Not Running Windows 10
Is there a fix or am I forced to either downgrade, do a system restore, etc.?
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RayRay
3 Answers
had the same problem, the normal recommendation for restarting 'windows audio' via services.msc didnt work for me. finally figured it out.
open services.mscfind 'Windows audio'right-click on it, properties->log on tab-> select 'log on as local system account'
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Running Windows On A Mac
This is more of a work around than a fix but it works for me:
- Log in as a user with admin privileges
- Open notepad and type
NET START audiosrv
- Save file in C: or somewhere you can find it easily, also make sure its saved as a batch file (enter
.bat
at the end of the name) - Open Task Scheduler
- Create Basic Task
- Type a name (e.g Audio Recovery) then Next
- Choose the option “when I log on” then Next
- Choose Start a program then Next
- Browse and select the batch file from earlier and Next
- Check the box and click Finish
- In the General tab, choose Run whether user is logged in or not
- In Triggers tab click Edit
- Change specific user to the affected user’s profile
- Choose to Delay task for 30 seconds and click OK
- Click OK again then log out and in and it should work
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LP03LP03
I had a similar problem. My Audio services was running, but I got a red cross over the volume control icon and I had no sound.
Windows troubleshooter for audio complained that the audio services was not responding, but offered no action to remedy the situation. And they were definitely running.
At first I thought it was the drivers so I re-installed all of them, but could not get any sound from any of the audio devices (built-in, PCIe card or Bluetooth headset).
I tried all the 'restart Audio services' tricks I could find, but to no avail.
Another tip was to ensure that the services was running as the local system account (Services->Windows Audio Service->Properties then the 'Login' tab). This did not work either.
But looking at another Windows 10 computer (with working sound) I discovered that the service was running as 'Local service' (I think that is the term, my computers are in Swedish ;-), NOT as the local system account.
Changing to these settings restored all my sound!
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