How do I Fix my Sound on Windows 7?

Fix my Sound on Windows 7 Issue

If you have landed on this page, you must be struggling with the sound problem on your Windows 7 operating system. You are not the only one facing this problem with windows 7. This happens to be one of the most common problems among Windows 7 users.

But you can fix the sound problem on windows 7 yourself. In this article, you can find the answer to How do I fix my sound on windows 7 in simple and easy steps.

The easy way to fix my sound on windows 7 is to restart my pc but the problem with this fix is that it takes several minutes to restart costing me my precious time. So, here are a few easy ways I use to fix my sound on windows 7 and I hope these work for you as well.

Method 1

Step 1: Right-click on My computer

Step 2: Click on Manage

Step 3: Click on Device Manager in the panel on the left.

Step 4:Click on Sound>Video and game controller

Step 5: Right-click on the audio driver

Step 6: Now click on disable

Step 7:Right-click on the audio driver one more time and click enable.

I followed these simple steps to fix my sound on windows 7. I hope the same step works for you too.

Method 2: Ensure that the Audio Device is Set to Default

Step1: Right-click on the sound icon at the bottom right on the taskbar. Click on playback devices

Step 2: See if the audio device is set to default. If not, set it to default.

Step 3: Now play the music or video to see if the sound problem on the device is fixed.

Method 3: Changing the Format of the Audio

Step 1: Right-click on the sound icon at the bottom right on the taskbar. Click on playback devices

Step 2: Click on your audio device and then click on properties.

Step 3: In the advanced panel, select another audio rate and click on the Test.

Step 4: Now play the music or video to see if the sound problem on the device is fixed. If you find an option that works for the sound problem set it to that and click OK.

Method 4: Reinstalling the Audio Driver

Step 1: Long press the windows key on your keyboard and press R at the same time to open the dialogue box for run

Step 2: Type devmgmt.msc and then press enter to open device manager.

Step 3: Expand to sound, video, and game the right click on the audio device option. 

Step 5: Click uninstall.

Step 6: Reboot Windows 7. The device should automatically reinstall the audio driver.

Step 7: Play music to see if the sound problem is fixed.

Method 5: Update the Sound Card Drivers

Step 1: Search for the manufacturer of your sound card on the browser. See if there is a link for the support/help section.

Step 2: Search the link for your devices and click on it.

Step 3: Download the recent update. The update will be a zip file.

Step 4: go to the file you downloaded and extract the content to your location and note down the location where you extracted the content.

Step 5: Click on the Start button

Step 6: Click on the Control panel.

Step 7: Click on System and security>Device manager>Sound, video and game controller.

Step 8: Find your sound card and double click on the option.

Step 9: Click on Driver and then click on the updated driver in the lower right corner.

Click on the search automatically. If your search doesn’t find the driver, click on Browse my computer for driver software. The go the file where you extracted the content of the zip file and click next. The windows will update the driver.

One of these ways sure will help fix my sound on windows 7.