Realtek ASIO Driver installs but fails to operate

Eventually coaxed ASIO4ALL v2 to work with my Dell Laptop (Realtek HD Audio)
First, I went into device manager and uninstalled every audio device I could see
Then I searched for my laptop and realtek audio driver
I was lucky enough to find that drivers-dell.com had mine listed
Dell Precision M6800 Laptop
Realtek AL32xx Series HD Audio Codec Driver for Windows 10 64 bit.
after that was installed I checked the sound settings and only one device was listed
Speakers / Headphones (Realtek High Definition Audio)
I went into the Sound Control Panel
PLAYBACK(Sound Control Panel)
I disabled the NVidia outputs (these are most likely HDMI audio but I'm not using that)
The only remaining output was listed as "Speakers / Headphones" which is the Realtek device...
Speakers / Headphones - properties, advanced
I set it to 24bit 44100Hz (Studio Quality)
RECORDING(Sound Control Panel)
I disabled the "Stereo Mix"
SOUNDS(Sound Control Panel)
I selected "no sounds"
COMMUNICATIONS(Sound Control Panel)
I selected "do nothing"
CONFIGURE(Sound Control Panel)
I clicked the check box for - full range speakers front and left
The next place I looked was the little icons bottom right of windows there was a "speaker" for "Dell Audio"
Dell Audio is a really annoying piece of Waves Maxx audio enhancements...
From the Dell Audio Icon...
MAIN - turn off the "speaker enhancement"
SPEAKER/HEADPHONE (This is what Waves maxx sees as the Realtek driver)
, set Default Format to 24bits 44100Hz (Studio Quality)
, Speaker Setup - Headphone Size - Large
, Equalizer (this has a habit of auto-enabling so I turned off all of the Maxx enhancements and saved a new profile and called it "nothing" which hopefully will become the default profile, then I turned off the equalizer (but it will probably turn on again but at least all enhancements in the "nothing" profile will override any Maxx audio stuff!!!)
I then found the ASIO4ALL and downloaded the latest beta version (2.15 beta 1, in my case)
ASIO4ALL will install (default settings) and you won't know a thing about it until you start your DAW..
My DAW is Roland Zenbeats.
I started Zenbeats (which will be configured at the moment to use the Realtek driver)
Settings, Audio, Audio Device - select ASIO4ALL v2
Then look at the bottom tray for a green icon with a play symbol arrow (this is ASIO4ALL) and open that
There will be an icon bottom right of ASIO4ALL to select the advanced settings
I turned off the "ASIO HD Audio Stereo Input" as I am not going to be using that
I then set the ASIO Buffer Size to be 256
We need to close out of the ASIO4ALL control panel
Returning to the Zenbeats audio setup , I then set the buffersize to 256 to match ASIO4ALL and tested the "play audio" button and that sends a test tone which I could hear in my headphones.
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Just found this online - hopefully it will prevent the MaxxAudio stuff from auto-starting.....
1 - Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to bring up task manager. If you don't see tabs at the top such as Processes, Performance, etc., press "More details". 2 - Select the tab labeled "Startup". 3 - Right click "Waves MaxxAudio Service Application" and select Disable.