Recent content by silversmith

OK - I got it. Crazy! In Device Driver: System Devices->Intel Smart Sound Update driver -> Pick from list -> High Def Audio Works! Thank you all for your ideas and willingness to help. Peter

When I click hidden devices, I do get the Sound entry, but the only thing there is "Microsoft Streaming Service Proxy". I went into the BIOS again - poking around did not show audio. I set to factory defaults. Reboot still no audio device. I'm very grateful for your thoughts and ideas. What...

My Device Manager DOES NOT have a Sound Video Game Controller entry. If I pair with a Bluetooth speaker, then this entry appears but only for the Bluetooth speaker. My Lenovo is model number 81WR. I went into Bios and poked all around. There is no setting for audio device. I downloaded and...

Thank you for your thoughts. Troubleshooting does not help me - it can't address what it does not see. I did the scannow and DISM. No help. Indeed I did a in-place reinstall. The speaker icon in the lower right tray still has an "x" over it. Just to test, I paired a Bluetooth speaker - and...

My Win 11 Lonovo suddenly has no audio. The System shows "No audio device". Device manager shows no audio device, as is the case for the sound settings. I did a in-place win 11 reinstall. I downloaded and installed Realtek driver from Lovono site. No joy. Any suggestions greatly appreciated...

Thank you Ghot for these display tweaks. I have indeed added them to my machine. Nevertheless, I'd like my display to turn itself off after 10 minutes of inactivity. It used to do this, but the past couple of weeks I've lost the capability despite doing all the settings I could find for this...

My Power options are set to turn off screen after 10 minutes - but it does not. I did the CMD powerconfig routine. I even did an in place reinstall to try to fix this without success. There was a registry change I tried as well. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Peter

Thanks for all the suggestions. If I manually change the Read attribute, I can edit - but then I must either reset it back, or be vulnerable to malicious changes. "Hosts File Editor +" seeks to do the job elegantly. Many thanks. Peter

Is this from a recent Windows update? I easily edited my hosts file in the past. (Notepad as administrator) Now it will not allow me to save even as administrator. Help appreciated. Thanks. Peter

WORKED!! Thank you - Thank you. Peter

No - Mailbird.URL.mailto is not there. But I certainly can create it - along with: -shell-open-command (data) Mailbird. Maybe that is the issue? Many thanks. Peter

The "Mailto:" shortcut is created - clicking on it yields the same choices as in the setup-Apps (Outlook, Mail, Chrome, etc) but no Mailbird, and no choice to browse for it. Thanks for the thought.

Good thought - but yes, Mailbird is entered as in your example in the registry. Thank you for the follow-up though. Peter

Thanks for responding. As I said in my question, the MAILTO setting does not have Mailbird as a choice. Also no choice to browse to it. So I can not set it for MAILTO in Win 11 settings. In Mailbird, the program is set as default (as I said in the question). I think the issue may be...

In order for programs like excel to link to my email program, I need to have the WIN 11 default MAILTO be my default email. But when I go to settings to set MAILTO default, my default mail handler (Mailbird) is not a choice. And there is no browse computer option, only 'Browse Apps at MS store'...