The only thing that ended up fixing it for me was to reinstall from scratch.
Everythings been working fine since and I think what killed it for me
initially was a failed codec installation.

But yeah I spent about a week trying to get it resolved, new installation
was much quicker.

Good Luck
TJ



"dancehaus" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Did you ever find a solution? I have the same problem on Vista Ultimate.
>
> "TJSlayer" wrote:
>[color=green]
> > OK A FAIRLY NEW VISTA iNSTALL AND EVERYTHING CHESCK OUT OK
> >
> > But I have a very wierd sound issue...
> > First of all I have used every driver currently available and it doesn't
> > change anything...
> > All updates are done
> > Vista 32 Bit Ultimate
> > Not 100% sure of when the problem started (Been busy moving pictures and
> > files around)
> >
> > I DO get sounds in Movies, Messenger Live, Games, and Music
> >
> > I DON'T get sounds in windows destop (Starup, shutdown, Minimize, etc.),
> > office, internet explorer (You tube for example)
> >
> > System Sounds are eneabled and everything checks out hardware wise....
> >
> > ANY Ideas??[/color][/color]