Re: Realtek Audio Console Icon
Sandeep Albritton
I have an Acer Nitro 16 Phoenix, when I buy it can still use it normally, but recently, when I type in Vietnamese "a" and "f" which will be "" everything is normal but when I type one more "f" which will turn into this "aff" the Micro icon will pop up for no reason. There is no block Microphone or unblock Microphone just a Micro icon.
I found that there was an error with the AMD Sound driver because when I uninstalled the driver, I could not use the microphone, and my problem was gone. But when I installed the driver again then I could use the microphone and my problem was back.
It sounds like you're encountering an issue with your Acer Nitro 5's microphone function being triggered unexpectedly when typing certain characters, particularly in Vietnamese input. This could be due to a conflict or bug with the AMD sound driver.
Sorry for my late response. I've tried uninstalling all the AMD audio drivers and then installing only the Realtek audio driver, but it seems like the AMD audio driver will automatically install when you install the audio driver.
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Right-click Sound icon at the bottom-right corner of Windows taskbar and select Sounds.
Click Playback tab, right-click Speakers and select Properties.
Click Enhancements tab and click Equalizer.
Click the drop-down icon next to Setting to choose an audio equalizer option.
Sometimes my Totalmix and Fireface Settings icons disappear from the system tray. The Fireface (800) still works fine, and if I call up the settings panel or Totalmix via shortcuts to the exes, they work fine too. Only the system tray icons are missing.
Clicking on "Customize" in the system tray shows both apps listed as "Show icons and notifications" but trying to change the setting produces the message "This notification icon is not currently active". This happens even while both apps are actually running! - so it's not the apps themselves that are not running, but just that the system tray seems to be unaware of them.
Checked msconfig and the two RME apps are listed first under Startup, and both checked. Bizarrely the title of both is "Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System", whereas every other startup item has a meaningful name (e.g. Google Update). But maybe that's the way it's supposed to be. Location for both startup entries is HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.
Maybe some other app blocks these from running in the tray. In the past, there was a buggy app for Realtek built-in audio that caused this behavior. Check MSconfig to see if RTHDCPL.exe is listed there. If so, uncheck it, or update to a newer Realtek driver.
This usually happens to me when I first boot up my system - the RME icons do not appear in my Notification Area. However, if I Log Out and then Log back In again, all the icons show up as they should. It's my suspicion that some process is so busy during the initial boot-up that it interrupts the routines that display these icons, where a second log-in makes use of on cached information.
I had this happen on Vista 64 with a Fireface 400, but not with the UC. Workaround solution was to just restart both manually (they can be found in \Windows\System32) and I guess the relogin solution does just the same. Never found out why they vanished out of the blue after some minutes, but since it doesn't happen on W7 64 bit any more (maybe due to fresh installation?) I didn't really care either.
Since I use Win 7 the simple Windows Explorer randomly crashes (for whatever reasons) and has to be restarted. After that the RME icons disappear. Rebooting brings them back. Those Explorer crashs have not been solved in the latest service pack, seems a little ridiculous to me... never happend in XP.
The fact that taskbar icons (not only RME) tend to disappear after Windows Explorer crashes is not new... It is the same here, even on XP systems. You could also place shortcuts to the applications on the desktop, which will put them back as well and save you from rebooting.
To my mind it would make more sense for the OS to handle the system try icons, but unfortunately that's not the way Windows works at the moment, so this needs to be coded into Fireface Mixer and Fireface Settings.
Restarting Explorer is a useful thing to be able to do in many situations, so I have written a simple AutoHotkey script that allows me to kill all instances of explorer.exe and restarts it with a single click. I have updated the script to also restart Fireface.exe and FirefaceMix.exe, so that the icons re-appear in the system tray afterwards.
If you create a shortcut of the programs on the desktop, then you should be able to right click the icon and select "Pin to Taskbar" or/and "Pin to Start Menu" in Windows 7 so they always show on the Taskbar right side area. I know the same thing happened to me in Windows 7 but had to add them to the right side of the Taskbar so they would show. Don't remember exactly what I did now, but doing above should put the icon on the right side or even on the other side of the Taskbar somehow. They always show now when starting up or using Windows 7. You can add what you want to show in Windows 7 on the Taskbar, just have to find out how to do it.
Mmmm so basically that's just like having a shortcut. To be honest now that I think about it what's the point of having the Fireface icons on the system tray anyway? The audio interface will work whether the icons are there or not, even if fireface.exe and firefacemix.exe aren't running. So my new solution is to simply hide the system tray icons altogether and use shortcuts exclusively. This way everything is consistent. And here is how I do it:
It's called True Launch Bar in it seriously makes everything else look toyish. It'd be quite hard to pin all that to the task bar... I know it looks overwhelming but it's not because you usually add shortcuts gradually as you require them, therefore there is a very gentle learning curve.
I think the point of this thread really was that, if the software puts an icon on the system tray, then it should always be there. Whether or not the icon serves a useful purpose (i.e. to indicate that a program is running even though there's no icon on the task bar) is another matter.
But since when I have my DAW taking up the entire screen and I have to change the USB Settings for different songs or change the input to monitor my inputs in TotalMixFX which I have down when I listen to music and up if I am recording music, I do not have to minimize my DAW to do that if the icons are on the TaskBar and I do not have to mess with my DAW to do that and minimize that.
And a Search for TotalMixFX or RME Fireface Settings brings the program right up on the Star Menu to do that with and I can do the same "Pin to Taskbar" without even getting up Explorer or doing anything else with either program (both programs).
The apps are located at Windows /System 32 as TotalMixFX.exe (the console) and rme_pcie.exe (the VIP settings app).
Right-click both and pin to Start Menu. When they disappear form the TaskBar, use the Start Menu to relaunch.
First, you should get the most obvious fix out of the way. If you have no sound on your computer, double-check to make sure that you haven't muted the audio. Click the Volume icon at the bottom-right corner of your computer to check the master volume bar; make sure it's not muted or set at an extremely low level. If it's muted, you'll see an X next to the speaker icon.
After this, right-click on the same volume icon and choose Open Volume mixer to see the current volume level for all apps playing audio. Turn these up as needed, confirming that they aren't muted by mistake or too low to hear. You may need to troubleshoot low audio output in Windows if you hear sound but it's too quiet.
Be sure to check the volume level inside any active apps, games, video players, or similar too. For example, even if you have both the master and browser volume levels turned up at the Windows level, a muted YouTube video will still produce no sound.
On a related note, you should also close any audio-heavy apps you aren't actively using. Some programs can take control of your audio device, so you won't hear anything from other devices. For example, while using Bluetooth headphones, being in a Discord call can prevent you from hearing audio from other apps.
To change the device being used for playback, click the Volume icon again. Above the volume slider, you'll see the name of the current device, if you have more than one enabled. Click this to open a menu of all available devices, then select the output that you want to use from the list.
This is just a quick switcher, so it might not show all available devices. To see a full list of audio devices connected to your PC, right-click the Volume icon and choose Open Sound settings. This acts as a shortcut to the Settings > System > Sound menu.
On this page, click Manage sound devices under the Choose your output device heading to see everything that's connected to your computer. Use the Test button for any of the available devices to play a quick tone. After changing output devices, you may need to check the volume levels again, as above.
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