Thanks for the info, but none of those tricks worked.

"Rich Barry" wrote:

> Scott, check at Kelly's http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm
> Select S and scroll to Sounds.
> "Scott" <Scott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CAC5A13B-9140-408D-BC79-5D744B624797@microsoft.com...
> > Out of the blue, my Win XP Pro machine stopped playing system sounds. The
> > volume control icon no longer appears in the system tray and the "play"
> > button is greyed out when I go to Control Panel>>Sounds.. CD and .WAV
> > audio
> > plays fine with Quicktime and Windows Media Player. I've tried
> > reinstalling
> > the sound driver but the problem still exists. Any ideas?
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