Windows 10: Missing Sounds, Playback & Recording Devices menu items when right click on speaker icon

Windows 10 here with version:

>systeminfo.exe | grep "OS Version"
OS Version: 10.0.18362 N/A Build 18362

When using Right Mouse Buttom (RMB) on speaker icon it shows:

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Which does not show Sounds or Playback|Recording Devices as these images that I got from the Net:

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I can see those in other Windows 10 machine with 10.0.16299 N/A Build 16299.

How can I bring those back?

1 Answer

Clicking on Open Sound Settings brings this windows:

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And then clicking on Sound Control Panel the required panel appears:

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Other way to bring it directly is to use Windows Key+R, and then:

control mmsys.cpl

or

control.exe /name Microsoft.Sound

or

explorer shell:::{F2DDFC82-8F12-4CDD-B7DC-D4FE1425AA4D}

All those taken from this link.

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