I disabled/re-enabled all the audio devices in device manager and re-booted. Troubleshooting didn't help but when I re-enabled them all... the problem seems to have vanished! Fingers crossed that it...

Thanks. I'd given up on this thread. The problem happens without starting Firefox which only left AVG and uninstalling that completely (full AVG removal malarkey) didn't fix it either. That had me...

Okey dokey, I've run it for 15 minutes now:


As for


Erm... lots and lots of them. There doesn't seem to be a way of exporting that information though short of doing lots of screen shots....

I just ran LatencyMon.

Don't you use your machines for much? :chuckle: Add a few apps from Adobe and you'll soon have heaps in there. Add Spotify and iTunes and a few bits of software here and there and it soon mounts up....

slicendice - I might agree if the problem was restricted to Skype.

Skype is not in my startup at all. I could go and open something like Audacity and record myself and the result would be the same...

Obviously the only way to go through startup properly is to disable them all and enable them one by one, re-booting each time. Ugh.

Before I try that - this is what is in my startup. Anything that...

Nope - it didn't! I realised in the middle of the night that I'd left my PC on both last night and the night before as I was archiving material to my NAS. I've just re-booted and tested Skype: the...

Hi Fireberd, I just had a quick try and all seems good! I'm marking solved. Thanks all for your help. :)

Well I just set Stereo Mix as the default and so far so good. I'll be more certain after a re-boot but I'm in the middle of something now so will do that later.

Ok. In which case why would one enable Stereo Mix as that's going through the sound card?



I did as instructed and showed disabled devices and presto the Stereo Mix appeared. However, if my...

Fireberd, thanks. I don't have any other microphone on this PC (deskside tower). Thinking about it I need to check the device driver for that too.

Disabling the webcam would mean I didn't have...

Wrists duly slapped. ;)

Seriously though, I was typing stuff in a hurry and didn't think to put it on. I see I can't add a NOF file and I've had to strip out windows error reporting from the TXT...

Hi, I have had a problem with Windows Audio for some time. I've never got to the bottom of it and having done a repair-in-place just this week and noted today that it is still present it is time to...

Thanks all. I've worked it out because of my other thread.

The AVG firewall had blocked other stuff and I wondered if it could be blocking this too. (Admittedly I'd updated NAS firmware by this...

Thanks all. Marking this one as solved now. Your help in nailing the issue is much appreciated!

Cunny, yes, "All Networks" shows "turn on sharing", "use 128-bit encryption", "turn on password-protected sharing".

I also tried enabling file sharing for devices that use 40 or 56-bit encryption rather than 128 bit - just in case that was the solution. It isn't.

Oh, but if you mean Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network and Sharing Centre\Advanced sharing settings

Then I have "Private", "Guest or public" and "all networks" showing "turn on network...

Cunny, you just spoke in Greek to me.

I was reading an item a moment ago saying to check that SMB CIFS was enabled, and it is.

Which parameters are you suggesting I try (given that I've...

Well this thread looked hopeful https://www.tenforums.com/network-sharing/60882-nas-connect-problem.html but didn't fix it either.

My other networking issue now looks resolved so fingers crossed...

(Will mark as solved tomorrow if it has no further hiccups.)

Keeping everything crossed for the rest of the day - but AVG is installed and I am typing this from my desktop PC. All seems working.

Now I'll see if I can see my NAS again!

Thank you, by the way!!!

I couldn't see wood for trees. I knew the stack was being blocked higher up but wasn't seeing that AVG was only "partially" turned off.

Fingers crossed it will still...

Interesting result, Barman58. Removing AVG Internet Security and I got full access to the web back - I knew I'd got it back before boot finished when I got a Dropbox notification pop up for a file...