I no longer seem to have sound for most of the things which I did have sound. I do have the volume control in my system tray and it appears to be working properly. When I set the speaker volume it makes a noise to indicate that it has been reset. I can hear my modem dialing. However, I no longer have any sound with anything that I play in Windows Media Player and, if I go to a web site which has a sound file, I can no longer hear it. I'm not sure that I know enough about this to ask for help. 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 but I can find nowhere to make any changes to Windows Media Player. Could it be that I'm missing the "codex" or whatever it's called necessary to play sounds? I have WinXP home SR2, Dell Dimension L800r computer, 160 gig HD, 512 megs ram. Thanks for any help... Loy The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering our special coffee mugs and mouse pads with the PCBUILD logo... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml