![]() Type in NCH Software and click "Find Next" Delete the first and any folder that says NCH in it.using the F3 key.go to the next found folder and delete them all. Next you need to go to your registry.go to Start.Run and type "regedit" (without quotes) ensure that your registry is collapsed so you see five "HKEYS".now just click on and highlight "Computer".then go to the top and click Edit.then FIND. Installing the program and uninstalling it sets the correct registry setting allowing removal of the file without affecting your system sound. This will NOT AFFECT your sound card as it does when you remove or rename the stdriver64.sys file. After you reboot, you will see that the stdriver64 (or 32) is no longer in your Windows/system32/drivers folder. After it is uninstalled, then reboot the machine. Now, go into control panel and Add Remove Programs or Programs and features and uninstall the SoundTap Program, again ignoring any errors. Install the program ignoring ANY errors you may encounter. you are going to be uninstalling it anyway. Anyway, go to and download the SoundTap Program. You may not even know it is on your system as it is downloaded and installed with several different sound recording programs. Here is the fix: the stdriver64.sys is installed by NCH Software. Where you noticed a problem happening a day or two after the bad software But if you installed Sound Tap a long timeĪgo, that wouldn't be a viable option. In some cases, using System Restore, to a point in time before the product If a software designer makes something that messes up the registry, orĪdds filter drivers to a stack, they should clean up the mess with their (You could see theĭriver attempting to access a non-existent registry key. Was actually upsetting it and breaking working audio. I had to go through about 100,000 log entries to find the thing that With a Sysinternals program (watching for attempts to read the registry). One driver package, damaged a registry entry the other package needed.Īnd neither driver repaired the entry. ![]() I had two audio cards, and each card had aĭriver. Know the details of how it works for audio or storage in detail.) (Note - this diagram is a generic concept of "shims". Manually removing software, is fraught with So there is more to cleaning up the mess, than The right-most case, is how the stack looked, before the software The non-existent shim, prevents the middle case from In the center case, the upper item tried to talk to "-"īut nobody is home. Removed in such a way, that an upper item in the stack, talks directly Will "break" it if the shim is removed improperly. NCH should provide a proper uninstaller, that puts things back the way theyĪny software that places a "shim" between two other items in the stack, To access the Windows Registry, trying to find the registrationĬlick to expand.But this is caused by what Sound Tap has done to your audio protocol stack. A SigmaTel driver file mightīegin with "st" but they generally don't bother including So asking a question here would likely be a waste ofĪ Realtek driver would be more likely to have an R at theīeginning of the driver name. There is a forum for the product, but I don't see the developer That sounds kinda crazy and dangerous ?!? In other words, some driver level code is attempting to access Or some critical Registry keys and values are not present." One of the core system hives is corrupted or unreadable, "It indicates the system configuration link list failed. Possibly, "sound tap" program ? Inserts a shim in the audio stack and kaboom ?
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