There's no sound playing on Flashplayer 8.0. No sounds in flash movies, games
or music in background during slideshows. I have already tried reinstalling
macromedia but nothing. I also have no system sounds. Any clues?

Please help!!!!!!!

I contacted Macromedia and they gave me the following:

If your Windows XP CD is in drive D, then command line should be below.
expand D:\i386\msacm32.dr_ c:\windows\system32\msacm32.drv
and
expand D:\i386\msacm32.dl_ c:\windows\system32\msacm32.dll

The first "expand" text was fine but what's next? The second one told me,
"can't input file." I had the CD in the whole time. I asked Macromedia what
to do next because I still have no sounda after all this. Please help!!!!!!!!!

well I don't know but you can try to scan for spywares and viruses. I tried
doing that and it didn't solve it so I had to do a repair install. There could
be some corruption in the registry somewhere. And also, when you install or
uninstall a software, anything on your computer can happen.

I have the same problem,

i cannot do "system restore" because i have this problem for to long.
Is there an solution yet for the "no sound in flash" for windows xp/ explorer
& mozilla? i really need this to work soon. :(

Regards,
Jack.

did you contact macromedia and try out their suggestions?

Is the sound on everything else working (realplayer, WMP, system sounds,
sounds on the Internet)?

Did you try uninstalling flash completely with their uninstaller then
reinstall it?

Did you do a repair install on your computer?

hi

I contacted macromedia and tried out their suggestions,

All my other sound works just fine,realplayer, WMP, system sounds etc.

I tried reinstalling flash completely.

I couldnt do a repair install, because i have the problem for such a long
time, i dont have a save point anymore from when i didnt have this problem yet.

Regards,
Jack.

When you do a repair install, you don't lose anything. You don't lose your
documents, files or anything you saved, including installed programs. It just
repairs errors on your computer and registry entries. From what you're telling
me, it might possibly be a corruption in at least some registry entries. I had
the exact same problems you did. I also contacted Macromedia and tried their
suggestions which did not work. I also uninstalled and reinstalled macromedia
completely and I also could not hear anything from flash but was able to hear
sounds and music everything else except macromedia and system sounds. But you
do hear system sounds (like when you log on and log off, error messages pop up)
which is different from me but other than that, I had the exact same problem.

Try doing a repair install. You will not lose anything so you won't need to
do a system restore. Here's the link how to do one:

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/winxphome/installxpcdrepair/part1.htm