Hi, You should assume that sound is disabled, you need to start the Windows Audio service. Under Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 you get a Win7 start menu, under 2012 you get a Windows 8 start menu. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Philip Hall Sent: 29 December 2012 20:28 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] sound in Windows server 2008r2 and 2012 I know that under Windows server 2003, sound is disabled by default. Should I assume that the same is true under Windows 2008r2 and windows server 2012? If so, Is there a relatively easy way to enable sound? Does the start menu behave more like XP, or windows 7? I will be attempting to install both operating systems under windows 7 using VMware player 5. Once I have learned a bit about them, I'll be installing them on some servers that I picked up. Thanks for any help. Phil _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins