The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Disable HD Audio Surround by default

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by maythegiant, Apr 29, 2008.

  1. maythegiant

    maythegiant Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    8
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi, the Surround feature in Acer HD Audio panel is turned on by default at every startup, and it causes Vista's audio service to use up to 5% CPU on my laptop; besides I just don't like the surround output as I have just two speakers.

    Does anybody know how to turn off surround by deafult? Or any script I can autorun at startup? Thank you!

    I have an Acer 5520G with Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 (and more questions to come! :) ).
     
    maythegiant, Apr 29, 2008
    #1
  2. Nokia 3650

    Nokia 3650 Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    53
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    The answer is found by toggling the option in the registry: Run 'regedit'
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACINE/Software/Acer
     
    Nokia 3650, May 11, 2008
    #2