[Elecraft] K3S Sound Devices Issue

[Bill Johnson]

I don't recommend disabling updates as you need the latest patches included to protect your OS.  Deferment only last for, I believe 60 days.   See my other recommendation posted earlier.  

73,
Bill
K9YEQ

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Rich
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 8:41 PM
To: donwilh at embarqmail.com; Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3S Sound Devices Issue

Thank you.  I never even thought about Win updates.

Rich


On 3/13/2018 20:03 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> The only way I can think of to avoid problems like that is to disable 
> Windows updates.
>
> Yes, this is a computer related situation, and not a K3S situation.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 3/13/2018 2:38 PM, Rich wrote:
>> I think this issue is Win10 related but this seems to be the place to 
>> ask the question.
>>
>> I had my K3 upgraded to the "s" last summer.   Once Windows created 
>> the USB sound device I renamed them to K3 Receive Audio and K3 
>> Transmit Audio.   Everything was working fine.
>>
>> Last night I was trying to work some RTTY and found that MMTTY was 
>> not decoding RTTY.   After much confusion I realized that Windows (I
>> guess) created another sound device called USB Microphone and it was 
>> ignoring the original K3 Receive Audio device which still existed.
>>
>> Has anyone seen this happen?
>>
>> Is there a way to avoid it happening again?
>

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