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John
Flightless Bird
Hi::
I have an older 866Mhz machine with Xp Sp3 home on it. This machine was
upgraded from Me. Ever since the upgrade my speaker icon has been missing on
startup. Everything works fine except that. the only way I can get the icon
is to simply log off and log back on everytime I restart the machine.
Needless to say, this isn't a whole lot of fun, but since the machine is
seldom off I just consider it another downer one gets with old machines. So
far I have just had another grumble at Mr. Gates and gone ahead and loged
off and back on.
I have Googled this problem and tried most of the solutions suggested
(except manually massaging the registry). I even have a new audio/video
card with new drivers.(for unrelated reasons). Same thing! This appears to
be another unresolved MS problem as far as I can see. The important fact
here is that IT WORKS FINE ONCE YOU LOG OFF AND BACK ON. Pardon the caps but
that particular fact seems to put this problem in a category all by itself.
Others have reported the identical problem.(including a neighbor with an
older machine).
Now I am just a dumb old engineer but here is the way I read what may be
happening; Granted alot of stuff is trying to start on startup, and perhaps
Xp is expecting things to move a little faster, but since this is an old
machine, things (me included) don't move as fast as they should, and Xp goes
ahead and starts up the next thing before the audio stuff is complete,
thereby cutting the operation short. When it starts after a log off/log on,
fewer things are happening to Xp and everything starts up in fine fashion.
Does anybody have an easy solution for this situation (other than log off/
log on)?
Thanks in advance, John
I have an older 866Mhz machine with Xp Sp3 home on it. This machine was
upgraded from Me. Ever since the upgrade my speaker icon has been missing on
startup. Everything works fine except that. the only way I can get the icon
is to simply log off and log back on everytime I restart the machine.
Needless to say, this isn't a whole lot of fun, but since the machine is
seldom off I just consider it another downer one gets with old machines. So
far I have just had another grumble at Mr. Gates and gone ahead and loged
off and back on.
I have Googled this problem and tried most of the solutions suggested
(except manually massaging the registry). I even have a new audio/video
card with new drivers.(for unrelated reasons). Same thing! This appears to
be another unresolved MS problem as far as I can see. The important fact
here is that IT WORKS FINE ONCE YOU LOG OFF AND BACK ON. Pardon the caps but
that particular fact seems to put this problem in a category all by itself.
Others have reported the identical problem.(including a neighbor with an
older machine).
Now I am just a dumb old engineer but here is the way I read what may be
happening; Granted alot of stuff is trying to start on startup, and perhaps
Xp is expecting things to move a little faster, but since this is an old
machine, things (me included) don't move as fast as they should, and Xp goes
ahead and starts up the next thing before the audio stuff is complete,
thereby cutting the operation short. When it starts after a log off/log on,
fewer things are happening to Xp and everything starts up in fine fashion.
Does anybody have an easy solution for this situation (other than log off/
log on)?
Thanks in advance, John