Windows 10: My audio is acting odd.

So, to put it simply, no matter what the audio of my laptop plays audio at the same volume. Max Volume, plays at 30%, Volume at 1, still plays at 30%, fully muted, plays at 30%. This only happened after I updated my laptop today and I have a midterm tomorrow. If anyone knows whats happening, some help would be greatly appreciated.

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Windows Installed An Odd Audio Driver

Despite me telling Microsoft to postpone a Windows update, it disregarded my instructions, installed one anyway and has another scheduled to install. I suppose because they think we're just taking up space on their planet. But I digress.

I now have an audio driver that has installed itself via Microsoft for the audio speaker in my display monitor. It is listed in my playback devices as 2962 (2 - NVIDIA High Definition Audio). I could just disable it but unless there's something else going on that may cause problems I'm unaware of, I wouldn't mind in so much if I could just rename it. Several photos attached.

Suggestions?

Windows 10 64
Version 1909 OS Build 18363.1016

 

Can not record audio.

Hi,

We suggest that you run troubleshooting for Audio Recording by following these steps:

• Type troubleshooting on the search box.
• Click View all.
• Select Recording Audio.
• Follow the steps to troubleshoot Recording Audio.

Let us know if you need further help.

 

ACT Pro 2013 will not open in Windows 10

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

The most likely causes on a standalone are a damaged or invalid .pad file or SQL is not running, or is damaged.

I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if the issue persists.

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    Click your Windows Start button, choose Run and type in actdiag.
    

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    When ACT! Diagnostics comes up, click Databases, the Database List.
    

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    Locate your database in the list, right-click on it and select Detach. Make sure you know the filepath to your database before detaching it.
    

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    When the database has been detached, open My Computer (or Windows Explorer) and browse to the location of your database.
    

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    Locate the .PAD file for your database [database name].pad and delete it.
    

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    Reopen ACT!...you will get a message that the last database opened cannot found, then will be taken to the Open Database dialog box.
    

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    At the bottom of this box, change the Files of Type to .adf, browse to the location of your database and double-click on the .adf file for your database.
    

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    You will get a message that ACT! will verify your database, click OK and ACT will reattach your database to SQL and create a new .pad file.
    
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    Hope this helps.