finakechi Posted March 11, 2013 Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 Hey Folks, Ok this is a bit of a weird issue. I googled for a bit and didn't find a single other person with this problem. My "Sound" menu won't open. When I right click on the Volume button in the task bar. Trying to launch "Sound","Playback Devices", or "Recording Devices" get no reaction from the machine. No errors or freezing. The sound itself works but I can't access the menu for it. Launching it through the Control Panel doesn't work either. Any ideas? Windows 8 Pro 64bit Edit: Here is a video I made of the issue. There is no sound, but I can assure you that I am clicking like mad. >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgQk9DmCNmo&feature=youtu.be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 Hmmmm..... A head scratcher indeed. - Pass. If anything I would probably suggest almost verbatim a similar course of diagnosis to the one offered in this post: http://forums.windowsforum.org/index.php?showtopic=50567 No initial diagnosis, no way forward. - No pain, no gain sort of situation really. Forum answers are at best crafted guesses. - Diagnosis is the real deal.Windows contains some really good diagnostic tools these days. - It's not all bloat as some people would have us believe. Hang around here for a while though. - You never know, someone may just guess at the problem correctly. :) Hope you get it sorted soon. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finakechi Posted March 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Hmmmm I looked at the Reliability History and it showed nothing pertaining to my sound. MsMpEng.exe seems to crash alot. Also strange when I woke my PC up from sleep this morning the Sound Menu was open on the Desktop! Unfortunately as soon as I tried to interact with it it froze and I had to use Task Manager to close it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 " Also strange when I woke my PC up from sleep this morning the Sound Menu was open on the Desktop! Unfortunately as soon as I tried to interact with it it froze and I had to use Task Manager to close it. " And that statement helps you with the diagnosis of the original problem in which way ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finakechi Posted March 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 I guess it doesn't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JiniOnline Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 Windows 8 is very much difficult to handle and it has so many bugs also.For Volume Control help, see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319095 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 Thank you for the link to Article ID: 319905 I am quite sure this will be very useful. :) Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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