SP-3? This sucks

[ManyBeers]

I just downloaded and installed SP 3 for XP and my Windows startup sound is
gone and the old Windows startup sound has been restored by SP 3. WHY? How
does the startup sound matter to the operating system? The problem is i used
a top fuel dragster starting for my startup sound and i did not keep a copy.
The only copy i had was in Windows/media folder and is now gone. I spent a
lot of time on the Internet tracking down the right sounding track and legal
as well. Where would the SP 3 installation put deleted files? Or are the
files gone.

 

[PD43]

I just downloaded and installed SP 3 for XP and my Windows startup sound is
gone and the old Windows startup sound has been restored by SP 3. WHY? How
does the startup sound matter to the operating system? The problem is i used
a top fuel dragster starting for my startup sound and i did not keep a copy.

Smooth move. And of course you don't do backups either, right?

 

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[ToddAndMargo]

I just downloaded and installed SP 3 for XP and my Windows startup sound is
gone and the old Windows startup sound has been restored by SP 3. WHY? How
does the startup sound matter to the operating system? The problem is i used
a top fuel dragster starting for my startup sound and i did not keep a copy.
The only copy i had was in Windows/media folder and is now gone. I spent a
lot of time on the Internet tracking down the right sounding track and legal
as well. Where would the SP 3 installation put deleted files? Or are the
files gone.

Your stuff may be in a different profile. Right click on
"Start" and left lick on the upper "Explore" (second one down).
See it there are other profiles. May your stuff is in one of them.

Just a long shot.

-T

 

[ManyBeers]

Smooth move. And of course you don't do backups either, right?

Actually just before installing SP 3 i imaged my entire c-drive with Image
For Windows but i hardly want to restore a 3 gb image for one 200kb file. I
guess i could use add/remove programs to remove SP 3 and that would restore
the file. Yes/No

 

[PD43]

Actually just before installing SP 3 i imaged my entire c-drive with Image
For Windows but i hardly want to restore a 3 gb image for one 200kb file. I
guess i could use add/remove programs to remove SP 3 and that would restore
the file. Yes/No

If you had used Acronis True Image, you could merely restore that one
file

 

[Bill in Co.]

If it was a .wav file, seacrh for all *.wav files.

It is probably still there somewhere.

I expect so, too. Most likely in the \windows\media directory.
Installing a SP wouldn't delete your .wav file.

 

[Bill in Co.]

If you had used Acronis True Image, you could merely restore that one
file

Totally unnecessary. It's still there on the HD. Installing a SP
doesn't delete one's .wav files.

 

[ManyBeers]

I expect so, too. Most likely in the \windows\media directory.
Installing a SP wouldn't delete your .wav file.

No it isn't in the Windows\media directory where i originally put it. It is
nowhere to be found, and SP 3 did do something with it. I don't know why but
it did change it back to the old Startup file.

 

[ManyBeers]

No it isn't in the Windows\media directory where i originally put it. It is
nowhere to be found, and SP 3 did do something with it. I don't know why but
it did change it back to the old Startup file.

It's back! I went ahead and removed SP 3 and my Top fuel Startup file is
back. In fact as i was watching the progress bar for the uninstall i clearly
saw during the COPY TO operation a reference to C;/Windows/Media which had to
be my file. For some reason it also returned the default text on the Run box
which i had changed to my own text a long time ago.

 

[Big_Al]

It's back! I went ahead and removed SP 3 and my Top fuel Startup file is
back. In fact as i was watching the progress bar for the uninstall i clearly
saw during the COPY TO operation a reference to C;/Windows/Media which had to
be my file. For some reason it also returned the default text on the Run box
which i had changed to my own text a long time ago.

Outside of this being interesting, I'm more interested in hearing the
wave file. I'd almost ask you to violate the 'text only' NG
thinggy and upload it...

PS, if your text change to the run box is a registry change, I export
all those 'fixes' I make to my system and save the .reg files for future
installs. I find it fun to edit the system but I also find it more
value to find the edits in the registry and then export them to save my
time.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 6/15/2008 9:29 PM, and on a whim, Bill in Co.
pounded out on the keyboard:

Totally unnecessary. It's still there on the HD. Installing a SP
doesn't delete one's .wav files.

It would if the OP's file was renamed as a default. Maybe that's what
he did. Then it would have been overwritten.

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[ManyBeers]

Outside of this being interesting, I'm more interested in hearing the
wave file. I'd almost ask you to violate the 'text only' NG
thinggy and upload it...

PS, if your text change to the run box is a registry change, I export
all those 'fixes' I make to my system and save the .reg files for future
installs. I find it fun to edit the system but I also find it more
value to find the edits in the registry and then export them to save my
time.

These are notes i save of some hacks i do. But removing SP 3 returned my text.
#14
Run box Hack...
Changed text of shell32.dll/Dialog 1003/1033 using ResourseHacker and
Replacer.....
(The modified file is here: D:\Tools\Modified system files)
To revert to original text run Replacer in safe mode and replace
C:/Windows/System32 shell32.dll with D:/fromwindows/system32
/dllcache/shell32.dll

 

[ManyBeers]

Outside of this being interesting, I'm more interested in hearing the
wave file. I'd almost ask you to violate the 'text only' NG
thinggy and upload it...

It sounds pretty cool when my computer starts up. NHRA.com has some
multimedia files on their site which play with Quicktime. The 10 mb one is
the file i used i believe
after i shortened it to about 10 seconds. However the link appeared to be
dead when i
was there yesterday. The 454kb(dragster idling) file is very similar to how
mine sounds. Link:http://www.nhra.com/sounds/index.htm

 

[Bill in Co.]

The date and time was 6/15/2008 9:29 PM, and on a whim, Bill in Co.
pounded out on the keyboard:


It would if the OP's file was renamed as a default. Maybe that's what
he did. Then it would have been overwritten.

I was counting on his NOT having done that (or allowed that). But yeah,
it's a possibility.