hAVING had this player for 4 or 5 years
with no probs, suddenly it stopped working

I deleted it and tried to download vlc again
but it wont install for some reason.... "cant write" or something comes up....

I tried one or two diff sources for downloads but always
coming up with same problem it just wont install.

I fell back on my BS Player... it works great,
but.... no sound, I tried other movies, no sound

I went to winamp, plays ok but again, no sound


I tried an audio file no joy,
then I tried the same audio file in windows media player
and the sound was there ok

( for some reason most of my movies dont play in media player so
I rarely use it )
For years Ive been playing movies in vlc... good for taking
caps in there too.

So now I seem to have lost sound on all my movies by default


Could it be down to uninstalling vlc ? has that
messed up some settings somewhere ?


The sound in xp must still be ok as the audio file played
in windows media.

Im stumped with 1000 movie clips that are now silent movies !

thanks for any advice or commisurations