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Re: Audio files won't play in vista

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Nov 24th, 2007

That's terribly logical, I really don't know why I didn't think of that myself. Thanks very much for the advice.

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Nov 24th, 2007

Also in my case the repair was time sensative. I needed to get the whole thing done in 24hours, andby googling the error I found no reliable fix. I wish you all luck in fixing your machines without a complete restore.

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Nov 24th, 2007

I had the same problem. I called HP and they weren't much help to me. What made it worse was none of my restore points worked... so I had to do a complete recovery (start from scratch).

The programs I installed when I experienced the proplem was the new quicktime and a beta version of AIM. I'm wondering if its the beta version, b/c I tried a regular 6.5 AIM as soon as I got it back up and running and it worked fine.

Anyway... sorry I don't have a solution. I'm going to start making ghost clones to prevent this. The common theme here seems to be AIM though... so be wary I think.

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Nov 25th, 2007

I've managed to fix this in a much simpler way with no re-installation needed!

Just go to control panel --> Sound

and it should pop up a message saying something along the lines of enhancements may be malfunctioning, would you like to disable, click yes and everything suddenly starts working again.

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Nov 25th, 2007

thanks fairygen. i've been looking for a solution to this problem for weeks and this is the first thing that works. to clear up for others, you do not actually have to disable anything the driver that comes up after clicking yes in the window, merely clicking yes fixes the problem.

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Nov 27th, 2007

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Originally Posted by raidscsi

Compaq laptop, Vista Home, Windows Sounds Play fine! Streaming audio from intenet(flash based player works too!) Every file type I can try doesn't have sound. I tried all the new codec packs, CCCP, NIMO etc. Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, VLC player, MPlayer Nothing can get sound from this laptop, .mp3 .mpg .avi DVD nothing. There is nothing wrong with the drivers on this machine because it plays the login welcome noise when you turn it on! This is really frustrating. Also when you adjust the volume you can hear it too.

This is speculation: I am working on this machine for another person, who put Limewire on it. This program was the only thing that was installed before the no sound crash. She removed limewire, and when she did it killed the sound. I think

Raidscsi....SAME EXACT THING HERE.. even the limewire. after i deleted it..no more audio for mp3s and videos. but flash based stuff works fine.. ive been looking everywhere and cant figure it out. let me know if you find something please..im about to throw my laptop of the balcony..somebody please help

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Nov 27th, 2007

that may be lack of advanced sound driver

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Re: Audio files won't play in vista

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Jan 27th, 2008

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Originally Posted by brianmat

All of the sudden my computer stopped playing music files. In iTunes when I try to play a song nothing happens when I press play, and in windows media player when I try to open a music file an error comes up reading "Windows Media Player cannot access the file. The file might be in use, you might not have access to the computer where the file is stored, or your proxy settings might not be correct." Windows media player will let me play videos but the sound does not work, and the same error comes up.

I just hope that there is a way to fix the problem without performing a system restoration

Yeah,Vista sucks sometimes.
Try this.
Click Control panel,default programs.file types,or something in that order....
When you see mp3 file ,make sure you designate Window Media Player,as the default program to open it.
It will probably state this already,but do it again,and it should work.
I uploaded several mp3 files to one of my websites,which were ripped by Media player 11 in XP,but my friends could not play them in Vista?
Give it a try

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Originally Posted by brianmat

All of the sudden my computer stopped playing music files. In iTunes when I try to play a song nothing happens when I press play, and in windows media player when I try to open a music file an error comes up reading "Windows Media Player cannot access the file. The file might be in use, you might not have access to the computer where the file is stored, or your proxy settings might not be correct." Windows media player will let me play videos but the sound does not work, and the same error comes up.

I just hope that there is a way to fix the problem without performing a system restoration

I have the same problem! Please let me know if you find a solution!