Volume Control in Windows 98   

Hi, Please can anyone help me, my friend has a secondhand Microsoft Windows 
98 computer system, but there is NO SOUND coming from the speakers, there is 
no speaker icon showing in the taskbar, and I have tried to locate the file 
for him to check the settings in the Volume Control  by searching for it, but 
after the search it only found a small shortcut, and when this icon was 
clicked on to open the (Volume Control dialog box) it did not open, nothing 
happened, and it appears to have been deleted or hidden somehow. If he puts a 
music CD in the drive, a message states there is no audio available.  I 
believe this computer system used to be an old office computer, but it  is 
now used only in the home by my friend to play computer games etc. he is new 
to computing, and it is such a shame. Please can anyone help him?

date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:49:03 -0800   author:   cnpk

Re: Volume Control in Windows 98   

In news:367810A9-539D-43D6-BD23-EA952AC41F14@microsoft.com,
cnpk  had this to say:

 My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Hi, Please can anyone help me, my friend has a secondhand Microsoft
> Windows 98 computer system, but there is NO SOUND coming from the
> speakers, there is no speaker icon showing in the taskbar, and I have
> tried to locate the file for him to check the settings in the Volume
> Control  by searching for it, but after the search it only found a
> small shortcut, and when this icon was clicked on to open the (Volume
> Control dialog box) it did not open, nothing happened, and it appears
> to have been deleted or hidden somehow. If he puts a music CD in the
> drive, a message states there is no audio available.  I believe this
> computer system used to be an old office computer, but it  is now
> used only in the home by my friend to play computer games etc. he is
> new to computing, and it is such a shame. Please can anyone help him?

Try a Windows 98 group? Anyhow, is there even a sound card? Some of the 
older systems didn't even have any.

-- 
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
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"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the
furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the
lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it."

Sherlock Holmes

date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:50:31 -0500   author:   Galen