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Something similar happened to me once before, and my easy solution was that everything simply was unchecked in the “Services” tab in the System Preferences. But I opened up my system preferences to see that everything was checked, but only about a third of the services were running, and the others were stopped! One of the many stopped was “Window’s Audio” which would explain the no start-up jingle.

In my week of trying to figure out why something’s aren’t working, I noticed that print isn’t working.

My first assumption is that I had a virus (my virus protection ended over two years ago). So I took a free download of “Cyber Defender” and if found hundreds of infections and many spy ware items. And I single handedly deleted every single one of them.

After all that trouble, I googled “start stopped services” And one answer was go to: start -> control panel -> Administrative tools -> Services.

I sorted everything in my list by status, only to find about a third of the things were started, and rest just displayed nothing. I do not know much about computers, so everything looked like it was in a different language.

I started my sorting everything by start-up, and got to select something and click start. After I got something I recognized, like Windows Audio, and click start, I figured that would end my sound problem, so I quick went to YouTube, played the first video I saw, and unfortunately, no sound.

When I was proceeding in starting all the manual items, One of my problems I neglected to mention: The Fast user switching, (before it would come up with something like “This computer is locked, and only Ben (my name) can unlock this computer” But anyway, when I clicked start, a warning box came up saying “Could not start Fast User Switching Compatibility service on Local Computer.” and below that is said “Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.”

Thank you for reading this 400 word explanation! I am really started to get frustrated. I need to print and watch some videos! Thanks again =]

I really need help!!

By: Ben D

PS. I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop if this helps…..
Hey everyone thanks for all of the quick and detailed replies…but for some reason those steps aren’t working is their a way to do this in like control panel maybe???
Hey everyone thanks for all of the quick and detailed replies…but for some reason those steps aren’t working is their a way to do this in like control panel maybe???
Hey everyone thanks for all of the quick and detailed replies…but for some reason those steps aren’t working is their a way to do this in like control panel maybe???
Hey everyone thanks for all of the quick and detailed replies…but for some reason those steps aren’t working is their a way to do this in like control panel maybe???

By: fotophreakz710

I’ve read all the suggestions on the web of what it could be and none of them seem to work.

The only ways I can get it back is Restarting the Computer or going on the task-bar menu on the control panel. I can then get it back for another two hours but doing this every two hours gets a bit annoying especially when in the middle of video editing which I constantly need to switch between different programs.

Any ideas?

P.S Its not explorer.exe crashing because whenever try that it always just comes up with my documents.
I’ve tried the auto hide route. Thats how I get it back but its not on auto hide because it would disappear everytime I took my mouse away
Auto Hide is definitely NOT on

By: Jamie