All the sounds that are specifically related to the Microsoft system works not-missing the system tray volume control and Accessories Entertainment empty folder.

I have no volume control icon in the system tray and my Accessories Entertainment folder is empty.  I can play the sound through iTunes and VLC media player but is no longer the Player Windows Media can play CDs or mp3 files.  I have more Microsoft system sounds and the sounds of a large number of online streaming sites no longer play unless I can their route via iTunes or VLC media player.  Windows Media Player says missing codecs if I try to play mp3 files.  I have upgraded to Windows Media Player 11 to see if that would bring codecs, but without any result.

My problems were not related to the missing CODECS.

I knew the sound on my system was basically correct, given that I was able to listen to free VLC Player I downloaded to replace the Windows Media Player while he was not working.

However, the solution to my problem of noise was really simple, but the answer was just very complicated track.

I noticed that a lot of the chatter about similar problems on other forums was related to Adobe Flash Player.

I had recently upgraded to the latest versions all Adobe products on my system.  I didn't make the connection that Adobe software could affect all the sounds of Microsoft.

Finally, after doing a Google search on Adobe Flash Player issues, I found a partial solution:

Here's an exact quote:

Very well, the problem is really the wavemapper mapping in the registry of Windows such as reported by a member of the forum.

All you have to do is to open the registry editor by going to start menu, run, type regedit, then Enter.
After that, in Registry Editor, navigate yourself in the left pane until you reach

My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32

And then in the pane, right-click and click New, select string value, enter "wavemapper" (without the quotes, of course), ENTER, enter "msacm32.drv".
Come in.

Well, of course, it didn't work the first time. I received this message:

the Registry Editor cannot rename the new value #1. The specified value name already exists. Type another name and try again

I was puzzled for a while, until I saw someone in the forum with a similar problem mentioned that they had found a fix for this problem by granting permissions subkey. This led me to Google search for registry permissions.

After that here, that's what I had to do, and although it seems that a lot of steps, it's really very simple:

Once I had reached the drivers32 registry entry I pointed out the entry in the right pane. Mine said (default) REG_SZ (value not set). I then clicked on change on the Bar Menu and clicked on permissions on the menu drop down.

This opens the permissions for Drivers32. I highlighted at the entrance of the Administration and click the Advanced button.

This opens the "Advanced Drivers32 security settings. I made sure that I was under the permissions tab in this window. I noticed that the box called "inherit from parent the permission entries that apply to child objects. Include these with entries explicitly defined here"was checked. Yet once, I did ensure that the entrance of the Administration has been highlighted and then I clicked on the button change.

This opens the "permission for Drivers32 entry. I chose "this key and subkeys" apply to: falling to the bottom of this window. Then, I checked the full control checkbox. I clicked on OK.

I clicked on apply advanced Drivers32 window security settings.

I clicked on apply permissions for Drivers32 window.

Once that I had done it all a lot more entries appeared in the right pane for Drivers32 including my wavemapper entry. This is where all along; Quite simply, there is not all the permissions to do anything, including being in the registry pane.

I left the registry and now all my sounds are back and the volume icon is once again in my system tray. Who would have thought?

Hope this helps someone else.

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