Windows 10 Pro
19043.1266 (on old computer)

I have a red X on my speaker icon. Speakers do not work. Looking in Regedit I found access to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\MMDevices not set to full control. I was running Regedit as an Admin. But it said Permission Denied.

Any thoughts?

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BTW...I find there is no service called Windows Audio. I'm thinking that is a problem. Not sure how to get it back.

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I got it working. Entered these to commands in an Admin CMD screen:


  • net localgroup Administrators /add networkservice
  • net localgroup Administrators /add localservice