Hi there, i installed the windows RC client 32 bit and i have a small problem. I downloaded it directly from the Microsoft website one day after the RC was released. If i change the volume over the volume control mixer in the taskbar, the bar is hanging / freezing. I can go over Alt - Tab and can go through the running applications, but over the taskbar nothing is happens. Only if i stop the explorer.exe task via taskmanager and restart it. Then all is working again. My Soundcard is a Intel 82801DB / DBM AC97 I've searched for a newer driver but Win7 says that i've using the newest one. The machine is an laptop (Acer Extensa 3002 WLMI) Installed Applications are: Eset Nod32 4.0 (Virus Tool) SAM Broadcaster 4.3.6 Some Games from EA: Madden NFL 2008, Fifa 09 (compliment to MS, games running better then in other windows versions) Mozilla Firefox OOO 3.1 MSN Messanger (The New One) DVR Studio 2.0 DVR Compress Any Idea what i can do here to get the issue resolved ? Many thx in advance. Regards Frank Sorry for my english, it's not the best.

Hi FrankI haven't seen this particular behavior reported before?I suggest you go to Device Manager, uninstall the sound device, reboot the computer and let it detect the device and reinstall the latest driver again.Let us know what you find.Thank You for testing Windows 7 Ronnie Vernon MVP

I suggest you go to Device Manager, uninstall the sound device, reboot the computer and let it detect the device and reinstall the latest driver again. Let us know what you find. Hi Ronny, I've tried that, without success. Same is still happening. It is like the taskbar is blocked from something. If i click on any symbol on the taskbar windows alert sound will be played. ------ Frank

Hi all, i've found out that this issue must have something to do with the "FN keys" on my laptop. today i will try to install the Acer Launch Manager 2.005 to resolve the issue. i will update the thread then, to let you the result greetings Frank

Ok this was not successfull. Still not working. But after installation from the Launch manager from Acer i could use the Volume Mixer Control via Fn keys. That is ok for me at the moment. I've also tried to use the Soundcard driver from Acer but still the same. If anyone get a solution or if i get an idea i will let you know. Thx in advance Frank

I have the exact same problem on an HP laptop - Pavilion d6700 running Vista. As soon as I either adjust volume from the icon on the task bar or touch the volume control buttons on the laptop, I cannot use the taskbar. I have logoff / logon to recover. Sometimes I cannot even launch icons from the desktop. No idea what i recently changedCameron

This at your own risk but sometimes the OS tells you the best drivers are installed when they are not. This often happens with video drivers.If you use one of several methods to brut force install the intell drivers over the 7 driversit could resolve your issue.

OK, this is a month later than the last post, but I have a similar problem. I am not so sure it's an OS issue, but one of the volume Ctrl, low RAM, and Windows in general. I uploaded a photo of my screen with the problem I am having quite often. (screen image here: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/zdS6hlL2HAs-sD92uM2A0A?feat=directlink)I have Googled/Dogpiled/Ask'd/ and nearly prayed in church to resolve this issue, but to no avail. Sometimes, but not all the time, when I pull up the single click to get the tiny volume control down in the taskbar, AFTER I've either changed the level, clicked or unclicked mute, when I go off it and click somewhere else to make it disappear, it doesn't!!! It is currently just sitting over anything I have pulled up. A program, a browser window, doesn't matter. It's been frozen on my screen now going on one hour! :( Anyone email me if you have a solution: hippymike@fastmail.us

The same problem here. I have a Dell Vostro 1510. Please somebody find a solution, or I have to switch back to Windows XP!

I had the same problem and I have solved issue. It's about driver. If you try to check with your driver manager it tells you that your driver is up-to-date. Big lie! So use a tool like "driver robot" to scan your out-of-date drivers and download them from somewhere. It helps ;)

It's not normally because of an out-of-date driver, but it IS a driver issue in general, so Windows isn't exactly lying when it says it's up-to-date, or that the device is working properly. It just doesn't realize that it's causing compatibility issues with other things. At any rate, it's happening because the driver you have for your sound either installed over an old one, or just didn't install correctly in the first place. In either case, it's because of something being corrupted in the driver install, not that it's out of date. In fact, I've fixed this before by using an older driver, rather than an up-to-date one, when it first started happening to me.