Windows 10: Sound stops working on Windows 10

Windows 10, version 1803

Last update was KB4100347


I have a sound problem. It just stops working (twice now in four days), not sure what's wrong or how to work through it.


When I look in drivers, it says they're up-to-date and that they're working.


However, deleting the driver and rebooting, temporarily fixes the issue for a few days.


Any suggestions on how to find out what's causing my sound to stop working?


Cheers,

Tina

:)

 

Unlocked Realtek HD Audio Drivers Windows 7 & 8 (With Dolby Digital Live and DTS Interactive)

DTS supported natively by Windows 8/8.1 and it should work on windows 10 too just DDL require to unlock your driver .

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows 10 - Sound stopped working after KB3093266 patch install.

Hello,

Let me prefix this with - I genuinely like Windows 10.

I successfully upgraded to Windows 10 when the upgrade came available in mid-Summer, but after Cumulative patch KB3093266 was installed on 10/1/2015, my speakers stopped working following the reboot.

• My PC is a Mac MINI, Win10 is on a Boot Camp partition, and has been functional for quite some time.
  • I like the small form-factor of the hardware / hate the Mac OS.
  • The underlying Mac OS is up to date on patches.
• The speakers are USB-powered
  • When I boot on OS-X, the speakers work fine.
  • When I boot on Windows 10, no sound (though there is an occasional blip of static if I unplug / plug in the speakers - meaning the speakers are getting the USB power just fine)
    
• I backed out the security patch, rebooted, the sound did not recover (community recommendation).
• I modified the memory size, the sound did not recover (community recommendation).
• I disabled / uninstalled the sound drivers for my speakers and re-enabled / downloaded fresh drivers, no recovery (community recommendation).
  
• I have been trying to create a new system backup, but interestingly, that has also stopped working.
  

There are over 10 pages of blogs on this community related to sound problems; many related to post Win10 upgrades and/or laptops. One or two are similar (I followed the problem determination steps in each to no avail).

It's as if there is some disconnect between what is generating the sound and what is playing the sound.


The final option is a complete restore of this partition, but then I will lose the applications I have installed, and that is just a non-starter for me at the moment.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I have exhausted my Problem Determination skills short of a complete rebuild.

Thank you,

Rade