I have a question about How do I add or remove sound events from Control Panel?:

I would like to get my "default beep" back in my list of sound events on my windows2000 machine. I've checked the registry and all entries are there, but the "sounds and multimedia" window doesn't show the "Default Beep" entry. However, if I log on as administrator, the "Default Beep" is there. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks --Joey

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Go to Start/Settings/Control Panel...... Double Click on Sounds...... Now you can scroll up and down the list of Items for which you can assign sounds..... HighLight the Item you wish to assign a sound. From the selection window browse to find the sound you want, highlight it (which brings it into the selection window)... To the right is an ?"Audio Player, which allows you to verify your selection) . Does it rain here?......Yes it does......Frequently from the Murky Island ED... 5:04:09 pm 18 OCT 2001


On Wednesday, October 17, 2001 at 10:31 pm, Joey Mitchell wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I add or remove sound events from Control Panel?:

>I would like to get my "default beep" back in my list of sound events on my windows2000
>machine. I've checked the registry and all entries are there, but the "sounds and
>multimedia" window doesn't show the "Default Beep" entry. However, if I log on as
>administrator, the "Default Beep" is there. Any help would greatly be appreciated.
>Thanks
>--Joey
>
>

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On Thursday, October 18, 2001 at 5:18 pm, Ed Carlson wrote:
>Go to Start/Settings/Control Panel...... Double Click on Sounds...... Now you can
>scroll up and down the list of Items for which you can assign sounds..... HighLight
>the Item you wish to assign a sound. From the selection window browse to find the
>sound you want, highlight it (which brings it into the selection window)... To the
>right is an ?"Audio Player, which allows you to verify your selection)
> .
>
>Does it rain here?......Yes it does......Frequently
>from the Murky Island
>ED... 5:04:09 pm
>18 OCT 2001
>
>
>


>On Wednesday, October 17, 2001 at 10:31 pm, Joey Mitchell wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I add or remove sound events from Control Panel?:

>I would like to get my "default beep" back in my list of sound events on my windows2000
>machine. I've checked the registry and all entries are there, but the "sounds and
>multimedia" window doesn't show the "Default Beep" entry. However, if I log on as
>administrator, the "Default Beep" is there. Any help would greatly be appreciated.
>Thanks
>--Joey
>
> That's just it. The "default beep" item isn't there! I want to know how to get it back in the selection list.

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On Friday, October 19, 2001 at 8:17 am, Joey Mitchell wrote:
>
> had the same problem.. the only solution I came up with was to - load xp with another user, - exported registry section which contained the sound scheme, - log on normally - delete the corrupted registry section - finally import the "healty" one - reboot. oh.. which one is it? open regedit and under Hkey_Current_User/AppEvents you will find EventLabels and Schemes. I replaced the whole section (AppEvents) and it worked fine. hope I helped by tiny

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Hi Joey Mitchell. You must be the person who got the yahoo name "Joey Mitchell" before I did. I'm just mailing you out of curiosity since you're the only doppleganger that I have (that I know of). I'm 38 and live in Chicago. Judging from your post here you know a great deal more than I do about these computing machines. Mail me back if you like. Have a great life nontheless. Ciao, Joey.


On Wednesday, October 17, 2001 at 10:31 pm, Joey Mitchell wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I add or remove sound events from Control Panel?:

>I would like to get my "default beep" back in my list of sound events on my windows2000
>machine. I've checked the registry and all entries are there, but the "sounds and
>multimedia" window doesn't show the "Default Beep" entry. However, if I log on as
>administrator, the "Default Beep" is there. Any help would greatly be appreciated.
>Thanks
>--Joey
>
>

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My Default beep Sound option was missing too. You're solution fixed it.

I added a new user, logged in as that user, ran REGEDIT, exported
the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents subkey to a .reg file, logged
back in with the regular user account, double-clicked on the
new .reg file to merge the subkey, and the "default beep" was
back and working fine. I didn't even have to reboot.

- Eric, http://www.InvisibleRobot.com/





On Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 11:57 am, tiny wrote:
>
> had the same problem.. the only solution I came up with
> was to - load xp with another user, -
> exported registry section which contained the sound
> scheme, - log on normally - delete the
> corrupted registry section - finally import the "healty"
> one - reboot. oh.. which one is it? open
> regedit and under Hkey_Current_User/AppEvents you will
> find EventLabels and Schemes. I
> replaced the whole section (AppEvents) and it worked fine.
> hope I helped by tiny 

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Hi Eric

I also had this problem.  Basically, it's caused by uninstalling Nortons AntiVirus. 
 Do you recall doing that prior to your default beep sound event going missing?  
It appears the Nortons uninstaller deletes this sound event from the registry.

It's a very annoying bug, but I have no way of contacting Nortons to let them know 
about it.

Regards,
David.





On Monday, April 8, 2002 at 12:55 pm, Eric Carlson wrote:
>My Default beep Sound option was missing too. You're solution fixed it.
>
>I added a new user, logged in as that user, ran REGEDIT, exported
>the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents subkey to a .reg file, logged
>back in with the regular user account, double-clicked on the
>new .reg file to merge the subkey, and the "default beep" was
>back and working fine. I didn't even have to reboot.
>
>- Eric, http://www.InvisibleRobot.com/
>



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Yes. I did uninstall Norton Anti-Virus, or at least I tried to.

I now use the free AVG anti-virus from GriSoft.

- Eric, InvisibleRobot.com

>Hi Eric
>
>I also had this problem.  Basically, it's caused by uninstalling Nortons AntiVirus. 
> Do you recall doing that prior to your default beep sound event going missing? 
 
>It appears the Nortons uninstaller deletes this sound event from the registry.
>
>It's a very annoying bug, but I have no way of contacting Nortons to let them know 
>about it.
>
>Regards,
>David.
>

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On XP you can recreate the default beeps with this registry entry.  Type the following 
into any text file called something .reg and double click it to import into the registry. 
 

for example, the file beep.reg contains... (use the text between the dashed lines)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


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"

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

you can make the Windows XP Ding.WAV anything you want or just make it "" to at least 
restore the sound event.  Then use the control panel later to pick the sound  you 
want to use.  The last entry in this file will be the entry used for the Windows 
XP default scheme, so you should probably keep it as is in this example. 





On Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 7:58 am, Eric Carlson wrote:
>
Yes. I did uninstall Norton Anti-Virus, or at least I tried to.
>
>
I now use the free AVG anti-virus from GriSoft.
>
>
- Eric, InvisibleRobot.com
>

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Joey i had the same problem with windows 98se,i had installed nortons antivirus witch over wrote the default sound (beep)in the sounds dialog box.anyways add the default beep manually in the registry its really easy trust me works like the original,I have a bmp of the registry showing exactly where to add it if your interested e-mail me later


On Friday, October 19, 2001 at 8:17 am, Joey Mitchell wrote:
>
> '-)

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This is definetely a problem with un-installing norton antivirus software. Here is a fix (for windows2000): Open regedit and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default There should be another .Default key under this key. If it does not exit it, creat a new key and call it .Default. You can create default sounds under this key similar to the other events or simply go to Sounds/Multimedia in ControlPanel and set your Default Beep sound to whatever you want. Hope this helps.


On Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 5:39 am, David Woods wrote:

>Hi Eric
>
>I also had this problem.  Basically, it's caused by uninstalling Nortons AntiVirus. 
> Do you recall doing that prior to your default beep sound event going missing? 
 
>It appears the Nortons uninstaller deletes this sound event from the registry.
>
>It's a very annoying bug, but I have no way of contacting Nortons to let them know 
>about it.
>
>Regards,
>David.
>

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Can someone please post the fix for Windows 98 to restore the default beep?


On Monday, December 23, 2002 at 5:27 pm, brandz wrote:
>Joey i had the same problem with windows 98se,i had installed nortons antivirus witch
>over wrote the default sound (beep)in the sounds dialog box.anyways add the default
>beep manually in the registry its really easy trust me works like the original,I
>have a bmp of the registry showing exactly where to add it if your interested e-mail
>me later
>
>

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Dear Eric, I currently use WinXP. My e-mail, MSN Messenger and other sound schemes are missing. I followed up your instructions step by step however; I had no luck. I had created another user in the same PC, exported HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents subkey, (just as you suggested) to my Shared Docs. I saved it as a Registration File, (.reg) and ran regedit. Deleted the corrupted / missing file and imported the new file. Although it says the transfer was successful, no changes took place. Please advice, Juan.


On Monday, April 8, 2002 at 12:55 pm, Eric Carlson wrote:

>My Default beep Sound option was missing too. You're solution fixed it.
>
>I added a new user, logged in as that user, ran REGEDIT, exported
>the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents subkey to a .reg file, logged
>back in with the regular user account, double-clicked on the
>new .reg file to merge the subkey, and the "default beep" was
>back and working fine. I didn't even have to reboot.
>
>- Eric, http://www.InvisibleRobot.com/
>

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Did the sounds work in the new user profile? - Eric, http://www.InvisibleRobot.com/


On Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 6:03 am, JC wrote:
>Dear Eric,
>I currently use WinXP. My e-mail, MSN Messenger and other sound schemes are missing.
>I followed up your instructions step by step however; I had no luck. I had created
>another user in the same PC, exported HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents subkey, (just as
>you suggested) to my Shared Docs. I saved it as a Registration File, (.reg) and ran
>regedit. Deleted the corrupted / missing file and imported the new file. Although
>it says the transfer was successful, no changes took place.

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look here http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01637.html

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