I tried both raising the volume and checking or unchecking the mute. I actually did this several times before, and nothing made a difference. Vicki ----- Original Message ----- From: Adam To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 7:58 AM Subject: Re: Dell Laptop and speech Hi Vicki, Try this: 1 Open the Run Dialog Box using Windows key + r key. 2 Type sndvol32 and hit Enter. 3 Tab once to get to the Volume Control Slider. 4 Press either the Home key to increase the volume to the max, or Page Up or Up or Down arrow to further adjust. That's all. Let us know if it works or not. Best regards, Adam Vicki Wherry wrote: The weirdest thing happened to my laptop a couple of days ago, and I've tried everything I know to fix it. I was adjusting the volume controls, and when I got to the up/down slider on wav volume, instead of pressing the page down, I pressed end. Well, there went all my sounds, so I immediately pressed the home key which should have brought it back to 100%. No luck. For some reason it didn't work. Because I hadn't installed Quick Mix yet after reformatting my laptop, I couldn't use that either. If anyone has any experience getting sounds back with a Dell Inspiron 1100 Laptop, let me know please! No sounds, no speech! Thanks. Vicki -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx