hp conexant audio driver windows 10 not working

Hp conexant audio driver windows 10 not working how to#

Sounds works fine, but no flow.exe and CPU usage is normal. What I did was go to the Services Control Panel (go to Control Panel and then search for Services) and changed the status of CxMonSvc and CxUtilSvc from automatic to manual. My Windows 7 PC at the office doesn’t seem to be affected by this Firefox issue at all, but it’s things like this on the Windows laptop that send me running to Chrome.

Hp conexant audio driver windows 10 not working how to#

That said, here is the best post I’ve seen about how to deal with flow.exe. That older HP computer doesn’t have Chrome at all. I will keep checking Firefox, which I’m still using on my Fedora laptop.

In terms of a fix, I won’t hold my breath. I could try to figure this out, try to figure out how to revert the Conexant driver, or something like that, or I could just run Chrome, which sips CPU by comparison, and wait for the situation to somehow resolve itself with fixes by Conexant, HP, Microsoft or Mozilla. There was a recent Conexant driver update for this laptop, and I think that’s when the problem began. I’ve since learned that flow.exe has something to do with the Conexant sound card in my laptop, and it is running all the time when Firefox is running, supposedly because the Conexant software can’t figure out how to configure itself when presented with whatever it is that Firefox is doing. I just wanted a privacy-focused browser that doesn’t necessarily phone home everything I do to Mountain View.īut on my HP Envy laptop running Windows 10, I’ve noticed the fan running a lot more, and a look at the Task Manager shows Firefox grabbing a lot of CPU, as does a process that only seems to run (and hog 20 percent of CPU) along with it: flow.exe.

Never mind that I use a lot of Google services, especially in my work life. I made the switch from Google Chrome to Firefox at least a year ago, and I thought the Mozilla-coded browser’s performance improvements were enough to allow me to eliminate one spy-ish element from my computing life.