Hello friends of the W8 forums. I think this is my first posted thread.
Anyway I've bounced back and forth between Win10 and 8.1 for a while and a few months ago I decided I'd stick to 8 until the RTM for 10 is released. My install has been running for a few months flawlessly and now I seem to be having this weird issue. Anytime I try to change volume with the keys on my keyboard, Explorer crashes and restarts itself. Same thing if I use Volume Control in the taskbar. As soon as I click the slider, the element freezes and will, naturally, restart itself.
Now after doing a little bit of research, the kneejerk reaction seems to be "Your installation is corrupt." Well, that's not even close to true because I've just been able to change volume normally yesterday (in a college dorm, quietness is paramount) and my hard drive is operating normally per a test with friendly Western Digital software. Is there something I'm missing? Why does volume control hook into Explorer and not, I dunno, my Creative Sound Blaster Z sound card's drivers? This just seems to be a bit of stupidity on Windows' part by somehow trying to pull volume values directly from somewhere else without creating a sort of buffer in between.
Anyway I've bounced back and forth between Win10 and 8.1 for a while and a few months ago I decided I'd stick to 8 until the RTM for 10 is released. My install has been running for a few months flawlessly and now I seem to be having this weird issue. Anytime I try to change volume with the keys on my keyboard, Explorer crashes and restarts itself. Same thing if I use Volume Control in the taskbar. As soon as I click the slider, the element freezes and will, naturally, restart itself.
Now after doing a little bit of research, the kneejerk reaction seems to be "Your installation is corrupt." Well, that's not even close to true because I've just been able to change volume normally yesterday (in a college dorm, quietness is paramount) and my hard drive is operating normally per a test with friendly Western Digital software. Is there something I'm missing? Why does volume control hook into Explorer and not, I dunno, my Creative Sound Blaster Z sound card's drivers? This just seems to be a bit of stupidity on Windows' part by somehow trying to pull volume values directly from somewhere else without creating a sort of buffer in between.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro MCE//Windows Vista Home Premium x64//Windows Technical Preview
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- Intel Core-i5 3570k @ 3.4GHz
- Motherboard
- ASRock Intel Pro3 Z77
- Memory
- 16GB DDR3-1600
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
- Sound Card
- Creative Sound Blaster Z
- Monitor(s) Displays
- HP 23xi IPS
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- 1 x 500GB Seagate Barricuda (Win8.1 and primary disk)
1 x 1TB Seagate Barricuda (Video game drive)
1 x 250GB Western Digital Blue (Secondary drive with Vista install)
- PSU
- Corsair TX-650 650W
- Keyboard
- Steelseries Apex
- Mouse
- Razer Deathadder 3500dpi Edition
- Browser
- Google Chrome
- Antivirus
- Avast! Antivirus