Hello there,
It looks like I deleted my sound card driver by accident.
How to reinstall it again ? I do not have the operating system any more for my Windows XP that I bought 3 or 4 years ago.
The other problem I have is that my Internet Explorer browser does not work right ! it needs at least a minute to just boot up. My Firefox works fine...but I have to work some Real estate related websites (Sandicor/Tempo) and they will only work with IE !
I tried to install the newest IE8 version and then everything on my computer slowed down to the speed of molasses.
Problem 3 is that my video cam on skype stopped working ! It says to reinstall the driver again....again I do not have all that stuff anymore after years....so what to do ?

Welcome to D-A-L.

Lets handle one thing at a time. Sound issue;

Download, install, and run Everest Home Edition on this machine. (CLEAN FreeWare) Once it's finished loading and
running, click the + sign next to;

Motherboard. Click on Chipset. Post the information listed under South Bridge exactly as it is listed.

Multimedia. Post the information listed under PCI / PnP Audio exactly as it is listed.