Wave sounds get muted without my doing anything

Wave sounds get muted without my doing anything

This problem is currently happening in XP-SP3, but iirc I've had it in
10 too. (I'm out of town so I can't check, plus it's not predictable
anyhow.)

For no apparent reason, I have no more sound, and after checking the
volume setting and its mute box, and if the system knows about the USB
speakers, and if the USB speakers are assigned to RadioMaximus or
Skype, and looking everywhere, I bring up the mixer** and find that
there is a check mark in the Mute box of the Wave section of the set
of volume controls.

How does the check mark get there? How can I stop this from
happening?

**(which is labeled Speaker in the left end of the Title bar. I get
it by right clicking on the Speaker icon in the systray and choosing
Open Volume Control)

Micky wrote:
Wave sounds get muted without my doing anything

This problem is currently happening in XP-SP3, but iirc I've had it in
10 too. (I'm out of town so I can't check, plus it's not predictable
anyhow.)

For no apparent reason, I have no more sound, and after checking the
volume setting and its mute box, and if the system knows about the USB
speakers, and if the USB speakers are assigned to RadioMaximus or
Skype, and looking everywhere, I bring up the mixer** and find that
there is a check mark in the Mute box of the Wave section of the set
of volume controls.

How does the check mark get there? How can I stop this from
happening?

**(which is labeled Speaker in the left end of the Title bar. I get
it by right clicking on the Speaker icon in the systray and choosing
Open Volume Control)

So a third-party sound software you use, has a Mute button,
and it mutes all the audio on you ? Just a guess.

I've not had the Mute trigger *ever* all by itself.

You have third-party software present which is doing this.

On Win7, there is a service which is an audio endpoint dependency,
which if the user removes the server (BlackViper style), your
sound stops. That's the only other way that comes to mind,
and since your Mute box is ticked, the resulting symptoms are not
a surprise.

Paul