Windows 10: Realtek Audio Control Panel, IS NOT EMULATED IN Control Panel/Hardware & Sounds/ Sounds

I am not sure what the game play is between Microsoft, Realtek, and the motherboard manufactures, but I've gotten tired of it. This has been going on for years now and needs to be addressed. To the point that this issue has been reported to the Consumer Affairs Division, Attorney General, and Better Business Beau. In addition, my personal attorney is also looking into this matter. Don't laugh, he is very successful in what he does.I have purchased motherboards that have an integrated an audio chipset. Realtek provides the driver. Drivers manufactured after Version 2.81 no longer have the Aud

:)

 

Cannot access the Sound control panel

Already tried ): Anywhere you can try to access sound, nothing happens.

 

'Hardware and Sound' in Control Panel

My laptop doesn't give me any 'low battery' warning - it just shuts down with no warning. if I google how to change this, I'm told I can do so from 'hardware and sound' in Control Panel. But my Win10 control panel doesn't have a 'hardware and sound' tab.
What's going on here?

 

Removing SRS Audio Control Panel / SRS Premium Sound

no problem, JohnGray.
though you did not tell me what kind of "hardware device ID" your Realtek HD audio device is using on your HP Elite computer? this is where I can look up the specific hardware ID of the Realtek audio device:
How to Find Hardware ID: 9 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow
mine has HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0888&SUBSYS_103C2A6C
I ask that kind of info because the Realtek HDA driver setup program may install & setup your Realtek audio device with certain INF files that mention specific hardware IDs (or HWIDs).

I do remember conducting an experiment where I changed certain registry entries to make the Realtek audio control panel display a different UI on my old HP computer (I kinda changed it from the classic Realtek HD Audio Manager interface to show either "Beats Audio" or "DTS Sound" - I couldn't get rid of either one later on; similar to what you were experiencing) I eventually came up with a solution to that problem. I renamed the CPL file called "RTSnMg64.cpl" found in the Windows\System32 folder to "RTSnMg64" [I removed the .cpl extension], then type control.exe to load the Classic Control Panel and click on the link to display "All control panel items" and the "Beats Audio" or "DTS Sound" is gone (I also had to change or remove some registry entries relating to either beats audio or dts sound). I then close the control panel window, rename "RTSnMg64" back to "RTSnMg64.cpl" and reload the control panel window and I get back the classic Realtek HD Audio Manager control panel app. It was an unusual solution but it worked