Everytime Windows Updates installs anything, my audio and video devices stop working with 0x800706be

[Brian97K]

This has happened at least three times now. after a major Windows Update goes through, playing back video or audio will fail with the error 0x800706beThe previous two times I was able to fix it by deleting all of my audio drivers and manually reinstalling them....but this time that didn't work.All devices show as working properly in the device manager, but opening any video player results in the same error on attempted playing of any file.

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