MS UpDates messing Stereo Mixer & App ASIO Settings in Win7

[Z15CAM]

All said, I have to re-edit Stereo Mixer Property Settings and Audio Capture App settings in order to restore Audio recording capture features after updating Win at least twice a year.

I've a feeling I'm not alone - What updates are dong this, so I can avoid them ?

Really.

 

[Z15CAM]

Getting a lot of hits but guess nobody wants to touch this topic with a 10 ft pole with the threat or possible being banned from AnandTech over copy-write issues ;o)

MS has always offered this option in Windows Stereo Mixer properties when configured accordingly.

The problem is that specific Win7 Updates are determined to scramble my Stereo Mix property configurations an isolate connecting satellite audio recording App's such as Adobe Audition v3 and Abyssmedia I-Snd ...etc.

Can't say in regards to Win8 or 10.

 

[Ketchup]

I have never run into this issue with Windows 7, but I don't capture audio, so maybe that has something to do with it.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Z, the only thing that seems to have a statistical scatter over the last six months is Windows Update malfunctioning. It can be fixed.

Have you checked your Windows Update history recently? If it shows a date much earlier than mid-April or in some bygone month, it's a problem but it can be fixed.

Do you watch your CPU clockcycles? (I assume you still have the SB and Z68 or IB and Z68-Pro-Gen3.)

I only noticed my problem because I could barely hear the fans kick up, so you could easily miss it. If thermal monitoring shows one core reaching close to 50C for periods of time and about 14% CPU usage, take a look at your SVCHOST processes in Task Manager's Process-Tab.

Then run Windows update and see if it gets lost in a perpetual cycle of checking for updates.

Those are some of the symptoms many -- not all -- have faced in recent months.

This would all be different for either an older, C2D, or newer processor. The problem with my mobile C2D showed 50% usage by one single SVCHOST running on one core, even if two threads.