Restoring Audio Service in Windows 10

Today I couldn't listen to anything or change the volume or do anything related to audio.
Someone suggested to:

> net stop audiosrv
> net stop AudioEndpointBuilder
> net start audiosrv
> net start AudioEndpointBuilder

After 5 minutes I'm still trying to see if the first command will ever end.

I'll never find out. I finally had to reboot. I tried the put-it-to-sleep solution but it went into eternal sleep.
That's always been Windows' solution: "reboot without  saving your changes"!