Hello gang, I've a very strange problem with my server 2003 box, it seems that while I was fiddeling with audio codec's, I somehow had all the MS default codec's wiped from my system. Apparently I've successfully installed them all back, except for 2. They are: "Windows Media Audio" and "Microsoft PCM Converter" (For those who want to see the info on these, goto Computer Management, then Hardware Devices, expand Sounds n Audio devices, open up Audio Codecs, and properties list them) I've searched all over for a solution, I've done searches on another computer to find (maybe) what I can tweak to fix it on my main box (registry patching fails; searched windows folder, came up blank). The last thing I would try would be monitor every file on my other computer, and remove these codec's so I could add them in (maybe).. But I'd rather format my main. Also, I tried the Add/Remove -> Windows component to look for anything there for multimedia / sounds and audio, but I'm thinking that was from the 2000 days (maybe XP but I don't use it so can't check it) Thanks for suggestions, hopefully a solution