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malwarebytes broke sound - Windows audio service won't starterror 1079
About a week ago I ran Malwarebytes to try to remove mystartsearch which was added to my browser inadvertently.
After the Malware was quarantined successfully, I realised that all sound on my laptop was not working. The speaker icon on the bottom right hand corner shows a red x sign. Double clicking the speaker icon tries to repair the problem but gives the error: one or more audio services are not running - error not fixed*
*note the error messages are being translated from Spanish to English so wording might differ slightly.
Thinking that the Malwarebytes was the problem I tried to restore the files that have been quarantined. However a number of dll files could not be restored. I noted only these files as they didn't seem to be related to mystartsearch
The .dll files quarantined were:
wacapi.dll
ecppprxy.dll
diskcopy.dll
mmcss.dll
sccls.dll
None of these could be restored via Malwarebytes. So I removed the software all together via control panel.
I tried several system restores but the one restore point prior to this event fails to restore. And run sfc /scannow
How can i restore the sound and are any of these files the culprit.
Any help is gratefully received.