Yet another annoying problem develops <smile> (W98)

[Jll]

Hi. This is a strange thing that recently happened to me. I have two computers, a PIII with Win98 and a P4 with WinXP. I keep them both in a room right next to our little girls room. At night when she is finally asleep I sneak into the room and play some with video edting.

One feature I have on both machines, and one I thought standard in windows, was the speaker icon on the right side of my task bar. When I click on it, a volume control slide comes up. As I slide the control and release the mouse button, the volume "dings" to give me an idea of how loud the speakers will be should I play back something with audio.

This was nice because I didn't have to worry about waking the baby. Now ... neither computer emits a sound when I slide the volume slide! CRAZY I know, but the only thing I can think of that I did on both machines is defrag. All other things work with the PC speakers including music, even AOL sounds and windows sounds are ok when I test them.

Anyway, I went to control panel, sounds, and associate sounds .. for the life of me, I can't find a specific choice for this volume slide control.

I know this is a minor issue but it is annoying that I had this feature, lost it, and can't even figure out where the settings are for it. And on BOTH MACHINES TO BOOT!

Any suggestions here would be appreciated.

thanks,
joe

[BertImmenschuh]

Usually that sound made when moving the slider, even slightly, is the Default Beep and the file name is Ding.wav.

In Win98 and WinXP the ding.wav file is in C:\Windows\Media. Double-click it to assure it works, could be corrupted.

<font color=blue>Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.</font color=blue> <font color=green>Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.</font color=green>

[Jll]

thx .. yes the file was in that folder and it did work with the associated program I have set to play back .wav files, so all is ok with the file itself. Now to just associate that file with the mouse movement of the volume control.

thanks for the reply,
joe

[PastaBoy4]

"Anyway, I went to control panel, sounds, and associate sounds .. for the life of me, I can't find a specific choice for this volume slide control. "

go to the same place but look for "Default Beep" and make sure it's set to Ding.wav if not set it if so test it and make sure it plays post back and let us know :) good luck

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[Jll]

Hmm ...there was one called System Default and it was set to none. But when I reset it ... it didn't work either.

[Jll]

Ahh .. now I'm getting close to a solution!!!!! Remember I said BOTH computers 98 and XP, and I said the only thing I can remember doing is defragging both of them the same day. However, I did delete some unused program from both before defragging. One of them being a Norton program.

check out this link if anyone is interested

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/5430/

Now .. I just have to figure out what the heck he is talking about with those instructions ... LOL .. and then what to do about the 98 computer .. Haha. Oh well, at least it seems like a possible reason.

[monkey_1]

He says tht you must enter some info in te Windows registry: Copy the bold text below into Notepad, save it as "beep.reg" (quotes included), go to where you saved the file and double-click on it

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\ .Default]
"Default Beep"=""

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\ .Default\.Current]
@="Windows XP Ding.WAV"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\ .Default\.default]
@="Windows XP Ding.WAV"


<font color=orange>Mono</font color=orange>

[Jll]

Ohh.. thanks monkey, I only chose the last line to put in the file

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\ .Default\.default]
@="Windows XP Ding.WAV"

that one .... You actually mean that I need to copy the entire thing, INCLUDING the heading!! Wow .. who woulda thunk the heading was part of the command.

Ok,, I'll give it a try. Do you think that came thing will work on the 98 machine also or would that registry entry be something different?

thanks
joe

ps wow, I just re-read your post. beep.reg with QUOTES around it ... "BEEP.REG" thats even more interesting. &lt;smile&gt; Its been a long time since my DOS 5.0 <P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Jll on 08/24/05 11:25.</FONT></P>

[BertImmenschuh]

Just so you'll know, Jll, that isn't DOS. The Registry is Windows-only.

<font color=blue>Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.</font color=blue> <font color=green>Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.</font color=green>

[Jll]

yes sir .. I know .. the reference to DOS was relative to how long it's been since I understood command line inputs. I was thrown for a loop when I was instructed to put " quotes " on either side of a file name I made in notepad. I haven't gotten to my xp machine yet, but I couldn't imagine windows accepting a filename created with quotes. In fact, I was under the assumption that a filename extention was 3 characters long which would make the ending quote unseen by the OS. I am learning all the time. That's what I mean by the DOS reference :)

[Jll]

A follow up for anyone who may experiece this problem. I did as directed and created a text file with the exact following text in it

****
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\ .Default]
"Default Beep"=""

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\ .Default\.Current]
@="Windows XP Ding.WAV"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\ .Default\.default]
@="Windows XP Ding.WAV"

***

I then saved the file as beep.reg and, fighting off my instincts that told me the text (Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00) should not be a part of the file, and again fighting off my instincts that told me the quotation marks must not be needed, I saved it and put " " marks before and after the file name, though I did not see those quote marks physically when I viewed the file with windows explorer.

Anyway, I double clicked the file and it did make a registery entry ..... and boom! the volume works again with the wav sound.

I tried this same file on the win 98 machine but alas, that registry entry is different, and it would not work . If anyone has a win 98 machine and they can locate the registry text that would make this work on the 98 machine, please let me know.

thanks much,
joe

[Jll]

FYI should this come up with someone. I couldn't get the command to work with 98 so what I did was manually edit the registry with the folder structure that I found on my XP machine after it worked.

I replaced the words XP ding.wav with the windows 98 path and now that machine also works.

THANKS NORTON for the glitch. Lucky it was only deleting those registery entries and not something critical.

Joe