Audio suddenly stopped working on my laptop

My audio suddenly stopped working on my laptop. It runs on windows 8, and it's an acer. I tried restarting the computer and troubleshooting audio through the control panel. Netflix is said the problem is related to Silverlight, but it seems to work very well. I tried to uninstall and install again, but that has not worked. Also tried to install the audio drivers from the acer Web site... nothing. Also downloading windows 8.1 in case that is useful...

OT: Audio does not

This occurred after the most recent Windows update? (around 7/10)? If so, the KB2962407 update may have been the origin of the problem. I fixed it by uninstalling this particular update. Details can be found here:

http://www.eightforums.com/sound-audio/49684-no-sound-device-being-used-another-application-7.html

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