VMXAudioFix

Regardless of the reasons they needed to set up Windows 2000 or XP guests on a VMware hypervisor, many users have complained about abnormal sound issues with these two particular operating systems. VMXAudioFix is a tool designed as an attempt to fix the audio distortion or other audio issues, such as the sound being crackly or slow.

It is important to note that the utility has been tested on a few operating systems, namely Windows 2000 with SP4 and Update Rollup 1 and Windows XP Professional with SP3. While in theory, the utility should be able to address the audio issues of other versions of Windows XP and 2000, the developer states that there is no guarantee about it.

To get started, users need to open the Command Prompt and add the path to the location where they store the app and add the /install command to start the service. Uninstalling is a simple matter of doing the same thing as above followed by the /uninstall command.

As far as the functionality is concerned, the developer specifies a known issue, namely that when the service is running, other programs can encounter issues in using DirectMusic. At the same time, be aware that an empty folder of DirectMusic shows in the DxDiag app.