I'm asking for help again since I didn't get any responses the first 
time and I still have the problem.

Problem:  no sound out of Windows Media Player.  I have video but no 
sound.  Other thngs like my email client have the normal sounds and 
Media Player Classic plays sounds the way it normally does.

I tried uninstalling Windows Media Player and installing another 
version.  That did not help...I still have no sound from it and but the 
video is still good.

I seldom listen to CDs on my computer and I don't download and play or 
burn music to a CD.

I believe that I lost the sound capability when Windows Update updated 
Windows Media Player quite awhile ago now,  but since I've uninstalled 
Windows Media Player and reinstalled a new version that I downloaded 
from Microsoft and that didn't fix the problem, it must be something 
else.  BTW, Windows Media Player worked just fine for a very long time 
before this problem occurred.

I have WinXP home SR2, Dell Dimension L800r computer, 160 gig HD, 512
megs ram.

According to Device Manager, under Sound, video and game controllers, I have
    Audio Codecs
    Creative AudioPCI (ES1272,ES1373)(WDM)
    Legacy Audio Drivers
    Legacy Video Capture Devices
    Media Control Devices
    Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device
    Video Codecs

None of the above report any problems.

Thanks in advance...

Loy

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