vista sound control panel differences

[kartel]

I am wondering how I can get this control panel:

Instead I have this:

I looked at a computer with vista on it in the store, it was not vista ultimate but it has the top control panel.

Is there a difference in vista versions or does the driver install the applet??

Edited May 11, 2007 by kartel

[Eck]

Can't do it, as far as I know. That top control panel is from XP and is similar to the controls available in all the previous 9x/Me/2000 control panels. The Vista audio stack is different. Yes, wouldn't it be nice if we could choose to use different midi synths? Some things are improved but much prior technology, like Direct Sound hardware 3D acceleration, is gone. We only get OpenAL in hardware now. Or, with an X-Fi card, software EAX through a Creative work-around called Alchemy. Soon Audigy 2 ZS users will be able to buy that seperately.

Wild that you saw it on a Vista system. Sure it wasn't XP?

[kartel]

I am sure is was Vista............Windows® Vista™ Home Premium

[Access Denied]

The top two pics are Windows XP for sure. I have both XP and Vista on two different pc's here. The Vista looks like the bottom, XP the top.

[Eck]

Dog gonnit, that's one heck of an evil, psychotic look by Anakin, eh? Just one look at that and I now must watch all the movies again!

Hey, maybe they were running VMWare full screen and you were clicking things in the XP guest? That would take some serious tweaking to get those controls to show up in Vista. It's just not built that way.