[Faith65]

I ran the trouble shooter and it said all devices are fine. I know its something simple- I hope ;)

[wrench]

Open your sound mixer and enable “video”. An upgrade I just installed turned mine to off, turning it back on enabled sound on vids again

[huldah1776]

I always go online first but search phrases are important. I used no sound except windows 7 alerts and this was #1 reply at duckduckgo:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/27734561-ee62-47bd-befb-e0b2a53969ee/win7-no-audio-except-for-windows-sounds?forum=w7itpromedia

The more you learn the lingo, the easier it gets.