Windows 10 Windows system sounds are not working.

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I've been using windows 10 for about 3 years now, but I never had this problem. Today, everything was working fine, but then all of a sudden, system sounds stopped working. I still have the sound scheme set to "Windows Default" and I can preview the sounds in the page that I can customize the system sounds, but they don't play when they're supposed to, for example, there is no sound when a message box appears.

However, the UAC sound effect DOES play, but no other system sounds do.

All other sounds, such as sound files being played using a media player, and also MIDI devices, work perfectly.

What doesn't play is the system sounds, except for the UAC sound.

UPDATE: This problem only occurs on MY windows account. I created another account and there is no problem in it.

UPDATE 2: The "device connected" and "device disconnected" sounds also play.

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