No sound

Hello,

So i have tried all the normal stuff re-booting setting the sound in the control panel to (none) re booting then resetting it to my custom sound. a little background for ya.. i noticed that my IE icon had a short cut arrow and the .lnk was broken i deleted it and i went to the desktop properties and didn't see it at all. no place to put the check mark Hmm..mcafee running fine spybot and ad-aware found nothing so system restore i did it all is gravy cept now no recycle bin sound..LOL i have been all over the web. my last name isn't Wozniak but i am no dummy either (famous last words)

anyhow all the answers i have received are bunk. one dude just said who cares...

anyhow any help would be appreciated

I would begin by making sure I had the right driver, and that the sound was working in the device manager.

Also check in Administrative Tools->Services and make sure Windows Audio is enabled and set to Automatic:

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