Vista - Vista/Realtek digital sound - help

Folks, I have a HP pc with onboard sound - analog and coax digital out. I'm
using neither, I have a USB DAC connected which is working just fine.

However, on a lark the other day, I went into the audio manager and
"disabled" the Realtek digital sound option (which I wasn't using anyway at
this point, but it was fully available to be configured and I had
experimented with it before - it worked fine!). I fully expected the choice
to just "grey out" when I selected disable. In fact, it totally vanished
from the panel. Never to return. I tried a system restore but that didn't
bring it back. I reinstalled the driver, no luck.

This isn't affecting my use of the system (it's a music server - iTunes
serving my music to the DAC and out to my audio system), but it's very
annoying to have something "disappear" and not easily undone. And if I swap
the system for some other household use, I'll want the digital sound back.
The analog sound output option was not affected by any of this.

Is there a simple fix for this - I'm sure there is...thanks in advance. Paul

Cal, sorry, but the Playback window of what - Itunes? or something
else....Paul

"Cal Bear '66" wrote:

Enable in Device Manager.
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