I have found the problem. You probably all have AVG 2014 as your antivirus. Somehow it identified Windows audio files as a virus and settle them on quarantaine. Go to AVG>>Virus Vault and restore the files. Answer yes to all replacements.
No Sound with error message 'Error code 0x800706cc: The endpoint is a duplicate'. Also a red x over the sound icon on the icon tray.
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Original Title: Windows 8 - No Sound
HP ProBook 6455b Windows 8
Hello, the sound on my laptop stopped working suddenly, never had any issues before. Looked into services.mcs and see that windows audio service is stopped. When I try to start it I get a dialog box stating 'Error code 0x800706cc: The endpoint is a duplicate'. There's also a red x over the sound icon on the icon tray. Checked for drivers, all working properly and updated, so it says.. Can anyone please help :(
Thank you.
Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Devices and drivers
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2014-10-05T20:52:27+00:00 You are not alone, I did the same thing. Please help
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2014-09-29T16:38:17+00:00 Thank you very much for your post....After a long drawn out battle because of the disruption the missing files were causing (a really slow-running computer), finally, using your method, it worked a treat....Very grateful :)
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2014-09-28T10:39:07+00:00 even after replacing the threats no diff
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2014-09-18T00:16:26+00:00 Thanks a lot dude it worked! I was a bit scared last night when i tried to do a system recovery and it couldn't even do that because it was corrupted. Gotta be more aware of what AVG does from now on. Once again Thank you!