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Windows Audio Service Failed to Start : Access Denied


We have tried many things with this, i.e. ensuring the service is starting as LocalService, reinstalling audio drivers, running sfc /scannow and dism /Online /RestoreHealth etc.
The only thing that seemed to work is running the below two commands and restarting the Windows Audio service:

net localgroup Administrators /add networkservice
net localgroup Administrators /add localservice

Published : Thu, 16 June 2022 at 14:18pm +0100