Sound issues on SCII

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just in case it’s related for you:

Game will not save settings/no sound

Just sharing this in case it helps anyone else. Something seems to have changed in Windows 10 / Windows Defender and the Controlled Folder Access feature. SCII was not saving sound setting changes at all and it worked previously. I found lots of posts about 7.1 sound/etc but the issue is actually Windows Defender. Everything is updated, no issues elsewhere on machine. I had to “Allow an app through controlled folder access” – and I had to find the specific SCII executable also (can’t just call…