Sound does not work on the administrator profile.Works on a non-administrator profile on Windows XP

Question

Initially I suspected a missing driver, but then sound ( for movies,songs etc ) works fine on the other non-administrator account, but does not work when I log in to the Administrator account. And yes..I have checked the sound volume and mute status as well.

Details of my system
OS: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
Processor: 2.00 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64
Memory: 448 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Board: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8V-MX
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0112 07/18/2005
Multimedia: SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio

Any help would be appreciated.Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Are the Audio services started ? Goto run, type services.msc and check if Windows Audio service is running.

Answer 2

The administrator account (Joe) which I was referring to was actually an account in the administrator group. So what I did was I logged into the actual 'administrator' account and deleted the Joe folder in "Documents and Settings" and then restarted my system and tried logging in the Joe account and sound worked.

Deleting the Joe folder and logging in again must have created a new profile on which the sound did not work.

I am sure there must be a better way to fix this rather than deleting and re-creating the profile.