Recent content by Halwho

The fact is that I did try a few reboots along the way, but I think the bitclean I ran, followed by a reboot, is the thing that somehow reset it. One more of those unexplained things where you keep doing stuff until something works. Thanks again for your interest and help.

Rebooted a minute ago, speakers came back! No idea why, but I'll take what I can get. Thanks all.

More really good ideas, thanks. No headphones available (gasp) but tried all else, checked all. Ran full scan w/MS Security Essentials, ran bitclean, will reboot but no change in spkr status yet, will system restore to point a few days ago later...

Only me at the keyboard, but you could say Google Chrome messed with it. I got a suspicious-looking notice that Chrome was back-level and click here to update. I thought it may have been misspelled, with a missing letter in the middle of the link, but stupidly thought it looked genuine...

Windows 7 laptop speakers suddenly stopped working with no apparent changes made. Reboot no solution. Lost -- any ideas?