System buzzer under XPe

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Zhastaph

I'm unable to get the function call "Beep(dwFreq, dwDuration)" which buzzes
the system buzzer, eg Beep(1000, 100) to work under XPe. It works fine
under all the other NT based OS.

Is there a reason for this and any way around it?

Many Thanks.
 
Zhastaph,

Add "Beep Driver" from "Software:System:System Services:Base " category to
your Configuration.

KM
 
I have just tried to add "Beep Driver", but it does not appear where you
suggest - I've also tried a search for "beep". Any ideas? Mny thanks.

SteveP
 
Please change the Visibility level in TD. By default it is set to 1000, you will want to set it to less than 200.

TD --> Tools --> Options --> Advanced

KM
 
Hi Konstantin,

Have you tried to count number of visibility level answers we gave so far?

I just hope that MS will choose to set default visibility level after installation to 100 instead of 1000, this could save many
people from a lot of trouble.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
Hi Slobodan,
Have you tried to count number of visibility level answers we gave so far?
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No :-)
I just hope that MS will choose to set default visibility level after installation to 100 instead of 1000, this could save many
people from a lot of trouble.
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Well.. You change the Visibility level in TD and it slows down your work with SLX projects. We both probably use >= 1G RAM, right?
That means we don't feel the Visibility setting much.
But the Product Dev Kit may targets much slower and less RAM'ed dev machines. Therefore it is risky to set the default Visibility
level to something less than 1000. The risk would in loosing a good dev sense of the Tool Kit :-)

Anyway, there is an Expert user mode option in TD (default, I believe, is the Basic user mode). So I hope MS would change the rules
so that when you switch to the Expert mode first time, your Visiblity level drops down to 100 (better 0) and the Resource view
option gets turned on.

Regards,
Konstantin
 
Excellent - thanks very much for your help.

KM said:
Please change the Visibility level in TD. By default it is set to 1000, you will want to set it to less than 200.

TD --> Tools --> Options --> Advanced

KM
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Any way to install the Beep component onto a system without having to
reinstall the OS image? We don't have our entire system componentized, and
reinstalling all the apropriate apps after our initial image is painful.
 
Wade,

Beep driver is probably the simplest one (software driver) :-)

Just copy beep.sys to %systemroot%\system32\drivers and copy the beep service registry entries under
[HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Beep] key from either XP Pro machine or from "Beep Driver" XPe component.
 
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