{"id":160,"date":"2012-01-11T20:55:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T01:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/signaturewebmedia.com\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2012-01-11T20:56:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T01:56:02","slug":"msi-sound-effect-manager-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/signaturewebmedia.com\/blog\/160\/msi-sound-effect-manager-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"MSI Sound Effect Manager removal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve personally suffered from MSI’s Sound Effect manager’s\u00a0weird\u00a0behavior on Windows 7: the sound effects are on even if they are disabled. Re-installing the drive from Reaktek did not help either. I know the Sound Effect manager is a legacy control panel application, thus it was a possibility this to happen…<\/p>\n

Searching on internet did not really help. After suffering almost whole day, I was finally able to fix the problem.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I did.<\/p>\n

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  1. Disable AC97 device from bios.<\/li>\n
  2. reboot (naturally)<\/li>\n
  3. deleted entries from registry via regedit.exe\n
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    1. (Make sure you make export of appropriate registry section each time.)<\/li>\n
    2. download PsTools<\/a> from Microsoft’s Sysinternals.<\/li>\n
    3. run regedit.exe via psexec.exe:\n