stopping starting audio service vista

Hi!
Does anyone knows of any way to stop and restart the audio service in vista so that I can get APO DLLs to be unloaded and replaced without needing to reboot the system?
Thanks Thanks
KS

Did you try Control Panel (classic view) | Admin tools | Services and then Windows Audio and right click and STOP?
You can then right click again and choose START.
steve
"KS" wrote in message

Hi!
Does anyone knows of any way to stop and restart the audio service in vista so that I can get APO DLLs to be unloaded and replaced without needing to reboot the system?
Thanks Thanks
KS

Yeh, Windows Audio and the one below it (can't remember what it's called but that'll kill the audio as well).
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Did you try Control Panel (classic view) | Admin tools | Services and then Windows Audio and right click and STOP?
You can then right click again and choose START.
steve
"KS" wrote in message Hi!
Does anyone knows of any way to stop and restart the audio service in vista so that I can get APO DLLs to be unloaded and replaced without needing to reboot the system?
Thanks Thanks
KS

Hi!
I've tried that, but seems like my APO DLL is still held by the svchost.exe and not released from memory. I've used ProcessMon to check on this. Currently, I had to stop another 4 other services in order to get my APO DLL unloaded completely. Anyone knows any better way?
Thanks
KS
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

Yeh, Windows Audio and the one below it (can't remember what it's called but that'll kill the audio as well).
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Steve Cochran" wrote in message Did you try Control Panel (classic view) | Admin tools | Services and then Windows Audio and right click and STOP?
You can then right click again and choose START.
steve
"KS" wrote in message Hi!
Does anyone knows of any way to stop and restart the audio service in vista so that I can get APO DLLs to be unloaded and replaced without needing to reboot the system?
Thanks Thanks
KS