Hi Everyone, I myself vanished from the internet and computers over 2 years ago but just recently returned with a used pc that was working fine until I in my total lack of wisdom installed a bunch of audio related programs, and of course uninstalled a view as well, and generally mucked around. This morning no sound, last night while burning I had sound. Here's the thing: the volume control has gone no sound programs work at all including ms error waves error reported usually saves soundcard in use by another program but not info on what program is using it etc. No help files related to sound - eg. sound troubleshooter listed but can't be activated and no info files related to sound have text. ms cd player works and recognizes cd player but no sound win 98 se dell optiplex gx1 pent2 400 I did disable 3 days ago a wstream.dll that was generating a mmtast problem (num key would black out monitor and freeze machine) - I have no idea what program was using the dll but I suspect a wave program. Anyway help would be nice but it's could to be back just the same. ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk