Are you a Windows 10 user and has it happened to you audio services are not responding? Unfortunately, this usually happens from one day to the next and all the information that the pc gives us is that of the error. You only realize because the audio on your PC no longer works and you don't know what happens. Nothing happens, do not worry that it is not yet time to throw your pc in the trash. But to begin with, we are going to have to talk a little more about why this failure occurs in Windows 10.
What happens with this error is that it is given as a general rule because the driver or audio driver is out of date and therefore, it does not work correctly. When updating Windows 10 we find that with the outdated driver it breaks even more and that causes you to run out of audio and give you the warning that the audio services are not responding. Once you know where the focus of the problem is, we will try to solve it with different methods that we indicate below.
At first we will try to use the simplest and fastest methods that have occurred to us, such as the Windows 10 troubleshooter or directly attacking the device manager and drivers. Follow the methods step by step and hopefully everything will be solved.
Solution to audio services not responding in Windows 10
As we told you, this failure can come from many factors but it mainly focuses on the audio drivers. The error is given to us by the Windows 10 troubleshooter that as a general rule it runs when Windows has a problem to interact with the audio devices of the equipment, that is where the fault that you have found on the screen gives us.
Check your privacy settings in Windows
The error can come and it is very possible that many applications are not accessing the microphone of the computer. To solve this you should follow the steps that we are going to give you below:
First click on the start button, Go to settings and once you have entered the settings menu you will have to click on the privacy tab. Being already in privacy you will have to go to the microphone menu, it is a side menu and check if the microphone of your pc has access to your PC. If not, change it and give the peripheral permissions so that your computer can access it. If it worked for you, then it would be there and you wouldn't have to look at any more drivers at all.
Start the Windows Audio Services
To be able to do this we will have to pull the command console. You can open it by pressing Windows + R and once the window appears on the screen, type services.msc and press the enter key on your keyboard so that the list of Windows services can be opened. Now that we are inside you will have to locate and find the following services:
- Windows Audio Audio Endpoint Builder Plug and Play
Now make sure that all these services are in automatic in the startup type tab and that everything works correctly without problem within the status tab. In any case, we recommend that you restart them. If, on the other hand, it is not automatically, we recommend that you double click on the service as such and once the window opens where it gives you more information about it. proceed to put it in automatic mode. Also make sure all services are marked with msconfig.exe. After doing all this, restart your computer for the changes to take place.
Uninstall the sound drivers that you have installed in your Windows 10 operating system
To do this, we recommend that you install an external program that facilitates the task, for example, the CCleaner of which we have already spoken on other occasions. Once you have it, go to the registry window that you will find on the left and give it the order to look for all the problems it finds with the drivers and fix them.
Now press the Windows key + R to bring up the console again and type devmgmt.msc and hit the enter key on your keyboard. In this way you will find that the Windows 10 device manager opens. Now in the arrows on the left, find and expand the sound, video and games controls and uninstall the corresponding sound driver in each of them. When you do this, you will be asked to confirm the installation.
To finish in the same window of device manager or device manager depending on whether you have it in English or not, go to action or action and click 'scan for hardware changes' or 'scan for hardware changes' in English. When this is done, reboot again to apply all changes to the operating system.
Use the Windows 10 troubleshooter
This can be another good method, although if we have left it for the end it is because we understand that it is the one that most users of the Windows operating system turn to first, since it is quite well known. It may be that the failure of the audio services not responding is solved simply with this simple method that Windows 10 offers us.
In order to use the Windows 10 troubleshooter you can type in the search box "problem solver". In the search results that appear, click as is obvious on "troubleshooting" and after that choose the hardware and sound section. Now that we are inside you will have to click on audio playback within the sound subcategory.
To finish you will have to click on advanced options in the audio playback menu or window and mark the option that appears at the bottom of the window, specifically it is called apply repairs automatically and hit next. What the troubleshooter is going to do now is take a look at the system or automatically diagnose all hardware and audio problems and if it finds something it will ask you to try to fix it or not.
When you find the error, click apply this fix and now restart the pc so that you can apply the changes that the troubleshooter has made.
We hope that all these methods will help you to solve the error that the audio services are not responding. If the problem still persists, try to explain yourself in the comments section so that the Movil Forum team can investigate about the problem in question since it can occur for different reasons that escape a first glance.