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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I’m missing the Windows Audio Endpoint Builder and I have no idea how to get it back.
Yes, this is the post I was looking for! It helped me big time! I still wonder why it suddenly stopped working. But who cares if it’s fixed, right?!
Thanks!
Thanks for the list of service dependencies- highly useful. Is there a website where all the services have their dependencies listed?
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For people that can’t get multimedia class scheduler to start, double click multimedia class scheduler in the services list, click the log on tab, click undocked profile, click enable, then apply and start. =) You can then proceed with the rest above.
thanks a lot, awesome source of trouble shooting tips
You are a BEAUTIFUL PERSON. Awesome advise with the Services option and setting to Automatic as per your suggestions :) :)
You have made my month!
Cheers
Stuart Fletcher – Christchurch New Zealand.
Wow. This worked thanks so much. I checked every where else and no one had the answer.
Thanks again.
This is great – I had the same problem and it was fixed as soon as I found this page and followed your instructions.
Thank you so much for making my day :)