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How Vista SP2 fixed my laptop audio problems

This is Network World's Microsoft Subnet news alert in which we focus on the top items from Microsoft Subnet, your daily source for Microsoft news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more.

Blogger Susan Hanley documents the magic of the service pack. She writes: "For the past month, my laptop (Dell XPS M1210) has been having audio issues - beeping at me when the sound is muted, unable to play You Tube videos or DVDs but able to play songs in iTunes. Windows Media Player message said that 'no audio device was installed,' which, of course, wasn't true. After hours trying to upgrade drivers, change settings, assign defaults, uninstalling programs I thought might have caused a driver conflict and basically giving up, I installed Windows Vista Service Pack 2 this morning and to my great surprise and delight, everything works perfectly once again."

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