Linda -

I had this happen to be a couple of months ago and its was
driving me buggy until I found the answer in the MS
Knowledgebase.  Hopefully you have an ESS sound card, and
therefore the same problem.  See the following article for the
fix:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q188/1/79.ASP

Hope this helps,                                        :}      Jim
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Subject: [PCSOFT] Wave Files muted


About a week ago this weird problem started.  Any time I start my
computer the Mute box is checked in my volume control for Wave
files.  I have searched through everything and cannot find
anything that would be muting these.  I uncheck the box but the
next time
I have to reboot it's checked again.

Any ideas on how to fix this???  I miss my chimes when Windows
starts and it's just an irritation to have to go in and uncheck
it
each time.

Thanks
Linda Aldridge

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