HB Try the windows update site, which is www.windowsupdate.com, I think. The update that came a week after the one that caused this problem didn't fix it completely for me. I was not having having RealTek problems, but others with getting error messages telling me programs were trying to load dlls into area of memory reserved for the Windows operating system. The update that was released on April 3 was to address the animated cursor security breach and that was the one that caused RealTek and other problems when it fixed the security breach. The updates released on April 10, regular update Tuesday, was to have fixed the RealTek problem but did not fix the problems with dlls supposedly loading into protected memory and the Dr Watson debugger crashing. I suspect the fix for the security breach was to extend the protected memory which caused the other problems. Anyway getting the updates released on April 10 should fix the RealTek problem if you got the security update released the week before. Dave ------------------------------ From: HandsomeBlck@xxxxxxx Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:02:02 EDT Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: I've lost my sound In a message dated 4/12/2007 11:52:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time, wooledge001@xxxxxxxx writes: > Did you do a Windows update recently or have them set to update > automaticaly? A recent update messed up Realtek installations. > Dave > Dave, My updates are set for me to install manually. Where can I get info regarding this update? Thanks, HB -- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/