No sounds of any kind

[Guest]

During one middle-of-the-night frenzy I somehow turned off all sounds on my
laptop (Dell Inspiron 1100) via Windows XP. It wasn't through hitting mute
all, and seems like it was somehow done via the desktop, but I can't undo it.
Am now w/o the need for silence (no one else living here now) and want to
restore normal sound. Please HELP!!! I'm not very Windows XP literate as
I've been mainly using another PC in the interim months, that has an older
version of Windows. I also lost the volumn icon from the bar at the bottom
of the screen, if that's any clue.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Control Panel->Sounds..... Under the Volume Tab check to see if the volume
has been muted there. If not then under the Sounds Tab select a "Program
event" item that has a little speaker icon next to it then click the
triangle button to the left of the Browser button. If the triangle button is
greyed out you need to reinstall your sound card drivers

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


| During one middle-of-the-night frenzy I somehow turned off all sounds on
my
| laptop (Dell Inspiron 1100) via Windows XP. It wasn't through hitting
mute
| all, and seems like it was somehow done via the desktop, but I can't undo
it.
| Am now w/o the need for silence (no one else living here now) and want to
| restore normal sound. Please HELP!!! I'm not very Windows XP literate as
| I've been mainly using another PC in the interim months, that has an older
| version of Windows. I also lost the volumn icon from the bar at the
bottom
| of the screen, if that's any clue.

 

[Guest]

Volume wasn't muted. Program events w/speaker icons have triangle buttons
that are not grayed out - I hit them, they change to squares, but there is no
sound whatsoever emitted.

How do I "reinstall sound card drivers"? Sorry but I'm somewhat hardware
illiterate and software challenged.

Dorothy

 

[Bob I]

Is there a "speaker volume" wheel on the side of that model?

 

[Guest]

I don't see any on it, nor any noted in the laptop's manual. Seems like when
I "did whatever it was to turn volume off" it was such a simple thing that I
said "oh, of course, that's how to do it". Doesn't seem like it involved a
lot of screens/steps, but then my memory is stressed out these days.