APPLICATION ERROR

OK.  Here's where I am.  Did the EASYFIX solution just as was instructed.  It work OK and the new registry code was merged without error.

But, it didnot give me any sound.  So, I reloaded new sound drivers off the inter-net, ie: REALTECK AC'97 AUDIO SETUP (5.36) A4.06. 

After sucessful installation was prompted to restart the computer.  When I cliked on "RESTART" low and behold I HEARD the exit chime for Windows as it shut down.  Nearly fell out of my chair !!!!  However, when the system started back up again I did not heard the welcome chime for the Windows Start Up.  Now isn't that strange?  Also, no more sounds anywhere.

Now I've checked everything I know to check.  Speaker cables, sound not "muted" anywhere and I have no special sound equipment hooked up like micro-phone or anything like that.

All my games are 32-bit.  I have nothing that is 64-bit on the machine.  I am not using an Add-On Sound Card.  I plan to do the reboot thing useing the F8 key and then restarting the computer on "Last Known Configuration that Worked" to see what that does.  Will keep everyone posted.

Can't thank you all enough.  I know there is a solution out there somewhere, just have to find the right combination.

Best regards,

RT

If the 'Volume Control' (SNDVOL32.EXE) started to work again but there is no sound, then check the following:

1. Check and remove any tick on 'Mute' and 'Mute all' below any control in 'Volume Control' (SNDVOL32.EXE).
2. If you have multichannel output then try using Stereo (2.0) in Speaker setup, in 'Sounds and Audio Devices' and also in sound card's control panel.
3. Check that the audio cable is connected in the Green colored Jack, and turn off any jack sensing or jack remapping option in sound card's control panel.
4. Open 'Sounds and Audio Devices' in Control Panel. In the 'Sounds' Tab, play a sound scheme. If it works then your media player might be the problem.

If any of the above steps does'nt work. Try reinstalling sound drivers. To get exact model & version of sound card you can use 'Unknown Devices' software:

'Unknown Devices' by Halfdone: http://www.halfdone.com/Development/UnknownDevices/

If you use an Add-On sound card and you also had an integrated sound card on mainboard, then disable the integrated one from BIOS first and use the audio jack of the Add-On sound card and not of the integrated one.

In my post above i said: 'First uninstall any .NET Framework versions ABOVE .NET Framework 3.0 ...' by which i meant to uninstall any versions after 3.0 and not before it. Actually in my situation i did recently installed .NET Framework 3.5 and 'K-Lite Codec Pack' both at the same time and also used 'Codec Tweak Tool' packaged with the Codec Pack, after which the error occurred when i use 'Volume Control' (SNDVOL32.EXE). So i thought that maybe these both programs created this problem.

However, after reading Ashton M quote above, i reinstalled .NET Framework 3.5 and the problem did'nt occurred, so there was no need to uninstall .NET Framework at the first place.

SO, DON'T UNINSTALL ANY .NET FRAMEWORK VERSIONS as it is not related to this error. Only registry tweaking can solve the error. Mine problem was as same as this post tells, so i told the same steps that i did by which my problem was fixed.

If the 'Volume Control' (SNDVOL32.EXE) started to work again but there is no sound, then check the following:

1. Check that there is no checkmarks on 'Mute' and 'Mute all' below any control in 'Volume Control' (SNDVOL32.EXE).
2. If you have multichannel output then try using Stereo (2.0) in speaker setup.
3. Check that the audio cable is connected in the Green colored Jack.
4. Open 'Sounds and Audio Devices' from Control Panel. In the 'Sounds' Tab play a sound scheme. If it works then your media player need to be reinstalled.

If any of the above steps does'nt work. Try reinstalling sound drivers. To get exact model & version of sound card you can use 'Unknown Devices' software:

'Unknown Devices' by Halfdone: http://www.halfdone.com/Development/UnknownDevices/

If you use an Add-On sound card and you also had an integrated sound card on mainboard then disable the integrated one from BIOS first and use the audio jack of the Add-On sound card and not the integrated one.

For the EasyFix solution you need to copy the registry code which is between the two ------- lines, paste in a textfile using Notepad and save it with any name with a .reg extension (replace .txt with .reg when using 'Save As...' option in Notepad). Closed Notepad and then double-click the saved reg file and select 'Yes' in a window that appears to add the entries into the registry.

I hope this helps, and sorry for the late reply.