Consider the following scenario. You install or upgrade to Vista SP1 on a system with an HD Audio card. You open Sound from Control Panel, and click on any Playback or Recording device listed. You then click the Properties button, and navigate to the Levels tab.

Consider the following scenario. You install or upgrade to Vista SP1 on a system with an HD Audio card. There are no devices plugged into the input or output ports on the HD Audio card. You open Sound from Control Panel, and click on any Playback or Recording device listed. You then click the Properties button, and navigate to the Levels tab.

You use dialer.exe to dial a voice phone call. You can hear the recipient of the phone call, but they cannot hear you.

Instructions on how to make changes to your Vista sound scheme. Want your computer to startup and play a movie quote? Follow these instructions! Keep reading →

When a print job is printed successfully on a Windows Vista-based computer or on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer, the “Print Complete” sound is not played.

Note: The “Print Complete” sound is specified in the Sound Control Panel item.

If you’ve got an older Creative sound card, you probably can’t download SP1 due to a driver incompatibility. Here’s how to install a modified Creative sound driver so you can install SP1. Keep reading →

• TechBlog: Comin’ at ya automatically: Windows Vista SP1
  SP1 has begun flowing through Windows Update. Only machines that are ready for SP1 will get it (machines with bad drivers won't get it), and distribution will be spread over the next few months.
  (tags: SP1 Update )
• Vista SP1: Terminal Services /console switch no longer working - Rick Strahl’s Web Log
  If you use Terminal Services, you should be aware of this change.
  (tags: Command Switch Terminal )

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When you change the selection in a classic-style ListView, you may hear a beep sound even when the Select option for the system sound is set to None.

This problem does not occur in applications that have been updated to use the themed ListView in Windows XP or in Windows Vista.

When you open the Properties page for a sound output device in a Spanish version of Windows Vista, the text on the Mejoras tab may not appear correctly. For example, the Vista previa button may contain truncated text. Other text may also be truncated.