re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by number41writer (1 messages posted) I had this problem as well. It happened randomly in the middle of downloading music. But thanks to some tech help from another site, the fix was pretty easy. Go to Start --> Run, and type in services.msc. A window will pop up with a list of services. Scroll down to Windows Audio. Right-click and click on Properties. Make sure that "Startup type" is set to automatic. Also, make sure, under "Service status," start is selected. (Mine was somehow set on stopped. I clicked start and -- voila! -- it worked.) Hope this works for you, too. On Sunday, August 7, 2005 at 7:08 pm, Mycall wrote: >I have a question about What >do I do with "unknown" devices in Device Manager?: > > Written in response to: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (Mycall: Sunday, August 7, 2005 at 7:08 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (Adarsh Krishnan R: Friday, January 6, 2006 at 9:45 am) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (Kristi: Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 12:58 pm) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (jima: Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 7:54 am) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (alan: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 5:52 am) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (Chris Torres: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 1:06 pm) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no 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Control:There are no active mixer devices available (dbhero: Sun, Sep 24, 2006, 1:44 pm) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (Matt: Sat, Nov 4, 2006, 8:53 pm) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (Mark: Wed, Nov 8, 2006, 2:29 pm) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (harold: Fri, Dec 1, 2006, 9:14 am) Solution - Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (Joseph Frost: Sat, Mar 3, 2007, 5:26 pm) re: Solution - Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (dalavai: Sun, Mar 4, 2007, 3:22 am) re: Solution - Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (dalavai: Mon, Mar 12, 2007, 12:18 pm) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (FrankO: Wed, Jul 25, 2007, 8:28 am) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix (mike smith: Wed, Apr 11, 2007, 4:43 pm) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix (Maddy: Wed, Apr 18, 2007, 8:07 am) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix (my fix) (pej r: Sun, Jun 3, 2007, 9:52 pm) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix (Katy Howland: Mon, Jun 4, 2007, 2:27 am) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix (Paul Blake: Tue, Jun 5, 2007, 8:18 pm) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix (Jake Jackson: Sun, Jun 24, 2007, 1:34 am) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix (Arunasish: Sun, Jun 24, 2007, 7:23 pm) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Fix (Arunasish: Mon, Jun 25, 2007, 10:24 am) THIS FIXES no active mixer devices!!!!!!! (Erica: Sat, Aug 18, 2007, 2:57 pm) re: THIS FIXES no active mixer devices!!!!!!! (Jimmy: Tue, Feb 26, 2008, 8:52 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum