re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available Friday, January 6, 2006 at 9:45 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adarsh Krishnan R (1 messages posted) Thanks a lot, I too had the same problem and I had been breaking my head over it, even was considering reinstalling XP. But your trick worked On Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm, number41writer wrote: >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. > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (number41writer: Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 9:20 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (raj: Wed, Jan 30, 2008, 1:08 pm) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (nikita: Sun, Feb 3, 2008, 3:03 am) re: i need help with my sound it would grateful if someone would be kind to help me out (jamal: Mon, Mar 24, 2008, 10:57 am) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (FEZ NKOMBI: Thu, Oct 19, 2006, 2:21 pm) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (number41writer: Thu, Dec 8, 2005, 9:20 pm) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (Adarsh Krishnan R: Fri, Jan 6, 2006, 9:45 am) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (Kristi: Thu, Feb 16, 2006, 12:58 pm) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer devices available (jima: Sun, Feb 26, 2006, 7:54 am) re: Question about 'Volume Control:There are no active mixer 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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