A Volumn Control Trojan???

This is the most oddest thing I have encountered as a computer owner. About two weeks ago I couldn't hear wave sounds. I opened the volumn control and the mute was checked. I unchecked it and everything was fine. The next day when I started the computer I opened the volumn control and the mute was checked. I unchecked it. I ran msconfig and searched the start files. Nope, nothing different there. And the confusing thing is it only happens at startup or reboot. But there is nothing in the startup saying there is. I'm not a beginner but far from a pro. Anyone have any ideas about this? I'm truly baffled.

 

Go to CONTROL PANEL and select MULTIMEDIA

Set the VOLUME control slider where you want it.

Hit APPLY

That should LOCK IN your choice.

 

Hi David and thanks for the advise although it did not solve my problem. After I reset the slider I restarted my computer and opened the volumn control and the mute was checked. When I uncheck it the problem is solved until I restart the computer again. What I can't understand is what is muting the volumn on startup. I ran msconfig and checked all the programs under the startup tab but there is nothing there that wasn't there before the problem arose. Usually I can solve my problems by searching and a little common sense but this one definately has me stumped. I can't find any relation to it anywhere. But please continue to advise me as the problem is probably a simple one but I'm complicating it by thinking its bigger than it is.

 

From a groups.google search:
=========copy/paste==========
From: Gary Terhune (grystnews@mvps.org)
Subject: Re: Volume control muted update
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Date: 2000-08-15 16:03:55 PST

Did you <snip> disable the entire Startup Menu in MSCONFIG (and autoexec.bat & config.sys), then try rebooting a couple of times? If the
behavior stops, then *some* program that is loading at startup is
automatically muting. This would probably be an option in such a program. Finding the program is a matter of adding programs back into the start lineup, one by one.

I suspect something like RealPlayer, or the like.
--
Gary Terhune
MS MVP-DTS

"Rosanne" <MoonShadow1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OL#$CewBAHA.243@cppssbbsa04...
> I've just come to find out that it's not the volume control in the taskbar
> that is muted but the wave control in volume controls. It reverts to mute
> every time the computer is rebooted. I've seen other posts on other boards
> with this same problem, but no one has seemed to come up with the answer

 

I will 2nd that idea. RP was doing it to me at one time.

I also ran into problems when I would use both the Mixer arived at by double clicking on the little speaker icon and the mixer from creative ( SoundBlaster ). If they were not both set the same various itmes would switch settings.

BillyBob

 

Well, you people may be closing in on the problem. I downloaded RP but deleted it the very same day because they were trying to push on me more than I wanted. That was about the time this mess started. But, there is no trace of RP in the startup group of msconfig. Here, I'll copy and paste my startup group and see what you people think. Maybe someone can spot something I missed.


Shortcut to EasyDailyNote Startup Group "C:\Program Files\EasyDailyNote\EasyDailyNote.exe "
ZoneAlarm Common Startup Group "C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zonealarm.exe "
WebWasher Registry (Per-User Run) C:\PROGRAM FILES\WEBWASHER\WWASHER.EXE
Microsoft Works Update Detection Registry (Per-User Run) I\WkDetect.exe
ScanRegistry Registry (Machine Run) C:\WINDOWS\scanregw.exe /autorun
TaskMonitor Registry (Machine Run) C:\WINDOWS\taskmon.exe
SystemTray Registry (Machine Run) SysTray.Exe
LoadPowerProfile Registry (Machine Run) Rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme
HPDJ Taskbar Utility Registry (Machine Run) C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\hpztsb01.exe
OneTouch Monitor Registry (Machine Run) C:\PROGRA~1\VISION~2\OneTouchMon.exe
AVG_CC Registry (Machine Run) C:\PROGRA~1\GRISOFT\AVG6\avgcc32.exe /STARTUP
TrueVector Registry (Machine Service) C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ZONELABS\VSMON.EXE -service
Avgserv9.exe Registry (Machine Service) C:\PROGRA~1\GRISOFT\AVG6\Avgserv9.exe
LoadPowerProfile Registry (Machine Service) Rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme


This is all that is in my startup but somewhere one of these is muting the wave. Which, if any, is NOT safe to turn off? I'd hate to turn something off and end up with a bigger mess. Anyway, thanks for the help.

John