Pretty wild guesses on your part considering the dearth of information
from the OP. The OP said his speakers weren't "working". He didn't say
they didn't work for just the Outlook or Internet Explorer sound events.
Until the OP comes back with more details, there is no point in wasting
the time, bandwidth, and disk space proposing thousands of guesses as to
how to solve the ill-defined problem. I could guess that the OP was
plugging the speakers into the Mic jack instead of the Spkr jack, too.
I don't know why the heading says anything about speakers. The mic is the problem. Everything is hooked up right. Remember, I've had a week to work on this problem. There are no mutes turned on and all the connections are right, but the sound is off. Ps the sound card is okay. So, what's the problem. And I don't want smart answers.