How do you Restore Advanced Volume Controls?

I swear, Windows XP is so infuriating sometimes; one day a feature is there,
one day it is not, leaving me to either request help or use system restore,
which I don't want to do for such a simple problem.
The volume control on the taskbar. Why are my "Advanced Controls" grayed
out? One day they were there, one day they were not. I have a Compaq
Presario 1911X 3500+ with XP latest and greatest, reinstalled the sound
driver three times, including the Realtek High-definition audio, which works
fine (the mixer/equalizer works fine), but the advanced controls under the
Windows volume control is robbing my sound of definition. How do I get the
advanced controls back without ten days worth of reinstalling, rebooting,
etc? I know they were there before.
My recovery disc is a separate hard drive. As I mentioned, reinstalling
the sound driver does not reinstall the advanced volume controls. This is a
new computer, they should not be unavailable. I simply cannot stand the
sound without any bass to it, other speakers won't make a difference unless
the output has the bass boosted from the operating system. Any help would be
appreciated. Please reply to (since Hotmail
started deleting my folders and messages without warning, I quit using
Hotmail; so what if I don't log in every thirty days, that doesn't give them
permission to delete my stuff without telling me). Thank you. MM.

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ModernDriver wrote:
> I swear, Windows XP is so infuriating sometimes; one day a feature is
> there,
> one day it is not, leaving me to either request help or use system
> restore,
> which I don't want to do for such a simple problem.
> The volume control on the taskbar. Why are my "Advanced Controls"
> grayed
> out? One day they were there, one day they were not. I have a Compaq
> Presario 1911X 3500+ with XP latest and greatest, reinstalled the sound
> driver three times, including the Realtek High-definition audio, which
> works
> fine (the mixer/equalizer works fine), but the advanced controls under the
> Windows volume control is robbing my sound of definition. How do I get
> the
> advanced controls back without ten days worth of reinstalling, rebooting,
> etc? I know they were there before.
> My recovery disc is a separate hard drive. As I mentioned, reinstalling
> the sound driver does not reinstall the advanced volume controls. This is
> a
> new computer, they should not be unavailable. I simply cannot stand the
> sound without any bass to it, other speakers won't make a difference
> unless
> the output has the bass boosted from the operating system. Any help would
> be appreciated. Please reply to (since
> Hotmail
> started deleting my folders and messages without warning, I quit using
> Hotmail; so what if I don't log in every thirty days, that doesn't give
> them
> permission to delete my stuff without telling me). Thank you. MM.

.. Under OPtions, ProertiesTry riight clicking on Volume Control. Open Volume
Control, under Options, Properties, see if you can check the parts you are
missing

"ModernDriver" wrote:

> I swear, Windows XP is so infuriating sometimes; one day a feature is there,
> one day it is not, leaving me to either request help or use system restore,
> which I don't want to do for such a simple problem.
> The volume control on the taskbar. Why are my "Advanced Controls" grayed
> out? One day they were there, one day they were not. I have a Compaq
> Presario 1911X 3500+ with XP latest and greatest, reinstalled the sound
> driver three times, including the Realtek High-definition audio, which works
> fine (the mixer/equalizer works fine), but the advanced controls under the
> Windows volume control is robbing my sound of definition. How do I get the
> advanced controls back without ten days worth of reinstalling, rebooting,
> etc? I know they were there before.
> My recovery disc is a separate hard drive. As I mentioned, reinstalling
> the sound driver does not reinstall the advanced volume controls. This is a
> new computer, they should not be unavailable. I simply cannot stand the
> sound without any bass to it, other speakers won't make a difference unless
> the output has the bass boosted from the operating system. Any help would be
> appreciated. Please reply to (since Hotmail
> started deleting my folders and messages without warning, I quit using
> Hotmail; so what if I don't log in every thirty days, that doesn't give them
> permission to delete my stuff without telling me). Thank you. MM.