sound has gone!?

Question

recently had major problems with pc windows system 32 file was was missing. all been sorted now but sound has gone. cant get any sound through monitor speakers or plug in speakers any suggestions please

Answer 1

I once had no sound through my laptop speakers and when I checked at the bottom of the screen there was no loud speaker symbol. It had been wiped off my hard drive. Check your sound settings and check for the loud speaker and you will probably need to put the micro soft cd in your computer and it will extract the part regulating the sound.
Try this site too
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q307918

Answer 2

There's a sure fire way of fixing this, and you won't lose anything doing it:
Do a system restore (what it does is replaces the files for programs with earlier ones the computer took a copy of. Your files - e-mails, videos, pictures, etc are safe)

Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore.

Look through the summaries for the bolded dates. If you've installed programs that you want to make sure you keep, choose a date after they were installed.

If the first one doesn't work, try an earlier date.

On a completely non-related topic, I highly recommend using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer...

Free, fast, a small 5mb download, Firefox blocks pop-ups and sites from secretly installing programs on your computer. It will copy over your settings from other browsers (cookies, settings, bookmarks). Firefox is powerful too, it's more up-to-date than even IE7 according to the web standards (w3.org).

The main reason I like Firefox is because it's customizable.

Why is customizability important?

Imagine being able to do 2 small things and never seeing a banner ad, flash ad or an iframe ad again? (Remember, pop-ups are already gone)
Imagine being able to pause your computer's music player when the phone rings without having to switch to it?

Firefox puts the power back in your hands!

Firefox - http://getfirefox.com/
Adblock Plus - http://adblockplus.org/
Adblock Filterset.G Updater - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1136/
FoxyTunes - http://www.foxytunes.com/
Firefox Addons - https://addons.mozilla.org/

Answer 3

What exactly happened to your system 32 file?
How was it fixed..

For sound, check the sound drivers in Device Manager,
check control panel, sound and audio settings.
Try rebooting and going to the start windows at last known good configuration.

Answer 4

try system restore if its not active try this
open SFC.exe to restore your critical modified system files
to do that click start menu go to Run and Type sfc /scannow
and follow the instructions

reinstall your Sound Driver

Answer 5

Pardon?