rundll32.exe

[chris635]

Shane,

      I am having this problem with rundll32.exe.  In the first shot you can see the speaker icon in the system tray. When I right click it to bring up sound options, it will not show up (I use this to switch to digital output so i can listen to music through house speaker system) on monitor but rundll32.exe is present in task manager (Shot2). If I open another window of a different program it will show (not immediately thought, almost like it needs a kick start). This only happens after my system has been running longer than a hour or so. I have run windows repair (reset registry and file permissions, register system files and repair exe association), ran avast and malwarebytes (full scans). Before all of this I ran check file system and system file check. I don't know where to go from here. Can you help?



Chris

[Shane]

rundll32.exe is used to run dll files. Sounds like it might be a driver issue with the sound. Did you install the latest drivers for your sound?

Shane

[chris635]

Yes I installed latest drivers. Realtek is the latest and it works fine. I uninstalled all audio drivers and let wondows install its audio driver like it always does. Same thing happens. So I reinstalled realtek. If I let realtek start up with windows and use it's icon it works fine. It's just the windows icon in system tray not working right. I could hide the windows speaker and just use the realtek speaker icon in system tray to switch between my desk top speakers and my home audio system, but it bugs that this isn't working right.


Chris

[Shane]

Well at least you have an icon that will work.

I dont know off the top of my head why Windows is having trouble though, you have all the windows updates correct?

Shane

[chris635]

I fixed it.......with a reinstall! lol   It aint broke now 


Chris

[Shane]

LOL 

Shane