Can't start Windows Audio Service

[Thomas Hunt3]

Hello, today I turned on my computer and noticed I was getting no audio. My audio icon shows a red x, and says the Audio Service is not running. When I try to enable it in Services, I get an error that says "Windows could not start the Windows Audio service on Local Computer. Error 0x80070005: Access is denied."On another thread, I read to try running the command prompt as admin, and try the line "net start audiosrv". From this I get "A system error has occurred/ system error 5 has occurred/ access is denied".I have tried re-installing audio drivers multiple times, and even returned to a resto

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