WinXP Suddenly Playing Win95 Start-Up Jingle!!

[Prisoner at War]

Hey, anyone know what happened here??

After I installed MS Office97 Small Business Edition the other day, my
WinXP SP2 laptop has been booting up with the Win95 -- that's **95**
-- jingle instead of the usual WinXP one!

How did that happen???

And is this something I can customize??

Pretty cool, but it'd be even better if I could define what audio gets
played (or not at all, even!)....

Anyone know??

TIA!!

 

[Alias]

Hey, anyone know what happened here??

After I installed MS Office97 Small Business Edition the other day, my
WinXP SP2 laptop has been booting up with the Win95 -- that's **95**
-- jingle instead of the usual WinXP one!

How did that happen???

And is this something I can customize??

Pretty cool, but it'd be even better if I could define what audio gets
played (or not at all, even!)....

Anyone know??

TIA!!

Take a look at Start/Control Panel/Sounds, Speech, and Audio
Devices/Change the sound scheme.

Alias

 

[Prisoner at War]

Take a look at Start/Control Panel/Sounds, Speech, and Audio
Devices/Change the sound scheme.

Alias

Kewl!! Thanks!!!

Now, any idea how the sound got changed in the first place? I wonder
why installing Office97 SBE caused the OS to do that....

 

[Alias]

Kewl!! Thanks!!!

Now, any idea how the sound got changed in the first place? I wonder
why installing Office97 SBE caused the OS to do that....

I suspect that the Office install did it. As you can see, you can change
it if you like.

Alias

 

[qwerty6523]

Hey, anyone know what happened here??

After I installed MS Office97 Small Business Edition the other day, my
WinXP SP2 laptop has been booting up with the Win95 -- that's **95**
-- jingle instead of the usual WinXP one!

How did that happen???

And is this something I can customize??

Pretty cool, but it'd be even better if I could define what audio gets
played (or not at all, even!)....

Anyone know??

TIA!!

hello tia, most likely office 97 has something that makes your
operating system play the 95 startup jingle, if you uninstall office
does it switch back.
also you should consider switching to ubuntu 8.04. it is the best.

 

[peepsys]

hello tia, most likely office 97 has something that makes your
operating system play the 95 startup jingle, if you uninstall office
does it switch back.
also you should consider switching to ubuntu 8.04. it is the best.

I hear that you can run Windows on Ubuntu using a VM. Have you tried
this? If so how well did it work?

 

[Auric__]

hello tia,

"TIA" means "thanks in advance". Chances are it's not the OP's name.

most likely office 97 has something that makes your
operating system play the 95 startup jingle, if you uninstall
office does it switch back.

Office 97 isn't supposed to change the startup sound -- in theory.
It's never done it to me, and I still use it on some machines.

also you should consider switching to ubuntu 8.04. it is the best.

Yeah, that's the best solution.
Problem: Startup sound has been changed.
Solution: Change to a different operating system.
Can you spot the flaw in your logic?

 

[Auric__]

I hear that you can run Windows on Ubuntu using a VM. Have you
tried this? If so how well did it work?

Many, many people do this. It works just fine, assuming your machine
is at least moderately recent. (Older machines will run s-l-o-o-o-w.)

However, I'd use something besides Ubuntu, but that's just a "personal
preference" thing. (Slackware rocks. Use it.)

 

[HeyBub]

Yeah, that's the best solution.
Problem: Startup sound has been changed.
Solution: Change to a different operating system.
Can you spot the flaw in your logic?

Ubuntu devotees are like Republicans and a tax cut: It fixes the economy,
cures cancer, and relives the pain from bee-bites. There is a difference, of
course: with tax cuts, it's true.

 

[Claudehl]

Ubuntu devotees are like Republicans and a tax cut: It fixes the economy,
cures cancer, and relives the pain from bee-bites. There is a difference, of
course: with tax cuts, it's true.

Yep, we can see that right now. LOL.