I think I may try uninstalling Mcafee and re-installing. See what happens!

As for the sound card it also doesnt even recognise it if I scan for new
harware. Strange!



"Qfreed" wrote:

> Sounds to me like Windows Premium dropped a driver or failed to recognize
> your sound card. I wanted to address your second problem, however. I use
> McAffee security suite also and have had problems using their "fix" button
> locing up my system. I just wanted to mention that the message you get about
> your computer not being protected may still haunt you even if you get its
> firewall, virus checker, spyware checker, etc. enabled. McAffee offers other
> Premium options like E-mail scanning, or the like, that they want you to buy.
> Therefore, even if you get the features you want (I suggest that you use
> Windows firewall and not theirs as theirs isn't as compatible with other
> programs) enabled you will still get that message inferring that you need to
> buy their premium package to be fully protected. It does go away at some
> point because I no longer see it and I never bought the premium package.
> --
> qfreed
>
>
> "Rob" wrote:
>
> > I upgraded the other day from home basic to home premium using the windows
> > any time upgrade disk that came with my machine (Dell Inspiron 9000)
> > Since then I have no sound and if i hover of the sound icon in the task bar
> > I get the message "No audio output device is installed" Sure enough if I look
> > in device manager there is no mention of anything to do with sound.
> >
> > Also I get a message from Mcafee security suite saying that my computer is
> > not protected, if I open it pretty much all the features are disabled and if
> > I try to re-enable them or click "Fix now" the Mcafee window flashes a few
> > times but then hangs or crashes or simply fails to "Fix" the problems.
> >
> > Any ideas?