Sound Woes...

[CuoioBar]

All of a sudden while someone else was using my computer and said that they
didn't do anything to it, I lost some system sounds. Actions like closing
an unsaved file in Word and clearing the recycle bin no longer make a sound.
The volume control now makes the internal case speaker beep. I can go into
the
Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices -> Sounds tab and play every
single sound associated with an event and the sounds work fine there.
Programs like Clipmate (that make entries in the Sounds tab) still make
their sounds, and non-Windows programs (NoteTab Pro) will audibly sound the
"Question" sound when closing without saving. Basically, it looks like
Windows/Microsoft programs (except for IE 6, which still plays the click
sound when clicking on a link and the "asterisk" sound when downloading is
complete) will no longer use system sounds, but all other programs will use
them perfectly. MP3s, MIDIs and Wav file play just fine (so I don't think
it's the driver, which I reinstalled anyway to get the same results.) I
also deleted all my sound schemes and remade one to use, still the same
problem. I've looked in the registry and sounds schemes have a 0 and a
box-character appended to them, for example, a scheme named "Light" would be
"Light0#" where # is the box character. Have you heard of this before and
can you help?

Thanks!
Scott
sjk68remove @ cox.net

 

[Kelly]

Hi Scott,

Where did my sounds go? Fix the Ding.wav and more
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm

 

[CuoioBar]

Thanks Kelly,

Realized that I had a registry backup from two days ago. New program,
worked great.

Thanks for the help anyway,
Scott


In Kelly <[email protected]>
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|| Hi Scott,
||
|| Where did my sounds go? Fix the Ding.wav and more
|| http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm
||
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|| All the Best,
|| Kelly
||
|| MS-MVP Win98/XP
|| [AE-Windows® XP]
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|| http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
||
|| ||| All of a sudden while someone else was using my computer and said
||| that they didn't do anything to it, I lost some system sounds.
||| Actions like closing an unsaved file in Word and clearing the
||| recycle bin no longer make a sound. The volume control now makes
||| the internal case speaker beep. I can go into the
||| Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices -> Sounds tab and play
||| every single sound associated with an event and the sounds work
||| fine there. Programs like Clipmate (that make entries in the Sounds
||| tab) still make their sounds, and non-Windows programs (NoteTab
||| Pro) will audibly sound the "Question" sound when closing without
||| saving. Basically, it looks like Windows/Microsoft programs
||| (except for IE 6, which still plays the click sound when clicking
||| on a link and the "asterisk" sound when downloading is complete)
||| will no longer use system sounds, but all other programs will use
||| them perfectly. MP3s, MIDIs and Wav file play just fine (so I
||| don't think it's the driver, which I reinstalled anyway to get the
||| same results.) I also deleted all my sound schemes and remade one
||| to use, still the same problem. I've looked in the registry and
||| sounds schemes have a 0 and a box-character appended to them, for
||| example, a scheme named "Light" would be "Light0#" where # is the
||| box character. Have you heard of this before and can you help?
|||
||| Thanks!
||| Scott
||| sjk68remove @ cox.net

 

[Kelly]

No problem. Glad you have it sorted. )