Error “The audio service is not running” when opening the Volume mixer in Vista

Error “the Audio Service Is Not Running” When Opening the Volume Mixer in Vista

Q: The speaker icon in the Notification area has a red cross on it. When I hover my mouse over it, it says The audio service is not running. When I right click on the it I get 3 options (Playback devices, Recording devices, Sounds) There is also an open volume mixer option but it’s greyed out.

Solution

1. Click Start, type Services.msc in the Start Search box.

2. Scroll down the list of services, right-click Windows Audio and select Start.

3. Select Properties for Windows Audio and set its Startup Type to Automatic.

If the Windows Audio service does not start and you get the error Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start, then make sure that the following services are started and their Startup Type is set to Automatic.

Plug and Play
Multimedia Class Scheduler
Windows Audio Endpoint Builder

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34 Responses to “Error “the Audio Service Is Not Running” When Opening the Volume Mixer in Vista”

KB

said this on Saturday, March 20th 2010 6:19 am

now it’s showing error 1079 I also have change user and password
Ameya

said this on Sunday, March 7th 2010 6:12 pm

hey..thanks.a million… i was fiddling my start up programs…and lost my audio….. looked everywhere…else but dint find any help…until i came to ur page….

thanks a lot…
Eric

said this on Thursday, February 25th 2010 7:03 am

Wow. This worked thanks so much. I checked every where else and no one had the answer.

Thanks again.
rami

said this on Sunday, February 14th 2010 1:00 pm

thank you my friend
prpblem solved

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