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vailpass
04-20-2009, 04:50 PM
No sound on my pc. Try to place volume icon in task bar. Error message:cannot display volume control becasue Volume Control Program not installed. Go to add/remove programs.

Google search shows that many have experienced this problem. There are multiple suggestions as to how to fix this; I don't want to try something and find out it made things worse.

Anyone ever experience this? Is it possible for a low-level yokel such as myself to fix this?
htismaqe
04-20-2009, 06:17 PM
Never seen that before. I would suggest reinstalling the drivers for your sound card.
vailpass
04-21-2009, 11:17 AM
Never seen that before. I would suggest reinstalling the drivers for your sound card.

Thanks for the response.
Apparently it is very common. Googling "volume control program" produced pages of direct hits.
I tried re-installing the drivers and nothing. Maybe I need to do what PR Capone told me for my other box and just go buy a sound card.
Demonpenz
04-21-2009, 11:26 AM
how about enabling your Plug and Play in device manager and running spyware antivirus
vailpass
04-21-2009, 11:34 AM
how about enabling your Plug and Play in device manager and running spyware antivirus

Thanks. Apparently it is not a virus but a glitch in XP. Googling the problem produces 39,500,000 hits. Here is what one says (I don't understand the offered solution):

This error message generally means the application that controls volume in Windows, sndvol32.exe, is corrupt rather than uninstalled.

The solution to this problem is very simple, just go to X:\Windows\System32 (X is your system drive), replace sndvol32.exe with a new one. You can copy it from any other working system. You can download sndvol32.exe from here.
Ultra Peanut
04-21-2009, 11:38 AM
Thanks. Apparently it is not a virus but a glitch in XP. Googling the problem produces 39,500,000 hits. Here is what one says (I don't understand the offered solution):

This error message generally means the application that controls volume in Windows, sndvol32.exe, is corrupt rather than uninstalled.

The solution to this problem is very simple, just go to X:\Windows\System32 (X is your system drive), replace sndvol32.exe with a new one. You can copy it from any other working system. You can download sndvol32.exe from here.

You can download sndvol32.exe from here and replace sndvol32.exe with [the] new one.
vailpass
04-21-2009, 11:46 AM
You can download sndvol32.exe from here and replace sndvol32.exe with [the] new one.

I tried that, don't know how to remove the old one to replace with the new one:shrug:

The answer appears to be here but I don't know what X should be or where I would enter the string:

just go to X:\Windows\System32 (X is your system drive), replace sndvol32.exe with a new one.
Demonpenz
04-21-2009, 11:52 AM
my sound wasn't working awhile ago and i tried everything, basicly I gave up and had to watch porn with out the sounds for like 2 months. Well my hand got tired of shoving a spoon into a bowl of cottage cheese and doing the moaning myself and it turns out i had to turn my plug and play back on because a spyware was deleting random shit on my compuer
htismaqe
04-21-2009, 11:54 AM
In almost all cases, the system volume is C:

So X would be C.
htismaqe
04-21-2009, 11:56 AM
Also, about 80% of OEM machines today use Realtek on-board sound. Unless you've added a PCI sound card, you've probably got a Realtek chipset. And Realtek makes a standalone sound control app that's independent of the one built in to XP.
vailpass
04-21-2009, 12:00 PM
my sound wasn't working awhile ago and i tried everything, basicly I gave up and had to watch porn with out the sounds for like 2 months. Well my hand got tired of shoving a spoon into a bowl of cottage cheese and doing the moaning myself and it turns out i had to turn my plug and play back on because a spyware was deleting random shit on my compuer

ROFL Thanks for the tip, I'll check my plug-n-play.
vailpass
04-21-2009, 12:09 PM
In almost all cases, the system volume is C:

So X would be C.

Thanks. I searched and can't find it anywhere. Looks like a stop at Frys for a sound card is in order.
htismaqe
04-21-2009, 12:24 PM
Search for the SYSTEM32 folder. If you can't find THAT, you've got bigger problems than a sound card.
vailpass
04-21-2009, 12:37 PM
Search for the SYSTEM32 folder. If you can't find THAT, you've got bigger problems than a sound card.

I found the system32 folder but there was no sndvol in it.
Buehler445
04-21-2009, 01:52 PM
Dude. Is this the same computer you've been having trouble with? You bought it from like a business or something?
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vailpass
04-21-2009, 02:16 PM
Dude. Is this the same computer you've been having trouble with? You bought it from like a business or something?
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I have seven different boxes that were left over when we centralized two offices. I play around with them to get them wiped clean and up and running again.
Buehler445
04-21-2009, 02:17 PM
Oh ok. My recommendation was going to be, "punt the computer and buy a cheap shitty one."
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vailpass
04-21-2009, 02:54 PM
Oh ok. My recommendation was going to be, "punt the computer and buy a cheap shitty one."
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:) Yes if it were one of my work pc it would be a different story.
htismaqe
04-21-2009, 03:18 PM
I found the system32 folder but there was no sndvol in it.

Then download it from the link UP gave and put it in that folder.