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re: Sound icon. Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 2:34 pm Posted by Keith Stanier (1248 messages posted) What are you calling the sound icons Marina? What are AOL sounds? So you have RealPlayer installed? It all depends on what program you want to open them with. Go into Explorer and select View/Folder Options... and select the File Types tab. Have a scoll down till you find the file type you want to change, highlight it and press the Remove button. This will remove the association to this file extension. Find one of these files in Explorer and double click on it. You will be shown a Open With dialog and choose the file you want to open it with. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Sound icon. Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 3:16 pm Posted by Marina (109 messages posted) By sound icon I mean the same as the icon by the cloack. Aol sounds are like: Welcome and other sounds. Yes I have the Real Player installed. On Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 2:34 pm, Keith Stanier wrote: >What are you calling the sound icons Marina? > >What are AOL sounds? > >So you have RealPlayer installed? > >It all depends on what program you want to open them with. Go into Explorer and select >View/Folder Options... and select the File Types tab. Have a scoll >down till you find the file type you want to change, highlight it and press the Remove >button. This will remove the association to this file extension. Find one of these >files in Explorer and double click on it. You will be shown a Open With dialog and >choose the file you want to open it with. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Sound icon. Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 3:37 pm Posted by dhm (990 messages posted) I guess you mean, The wave files default to SNDREC32.EXE to play them. Real Player, an obnoxious piece of bloatware/spyware which I refuse to allow on my system, took over the associations. While holding down Shift, right-click one of your AOL sounds. Select Open with from the menu that pops up. SNDREC will be a short way down the selection list. Check off the Always use this program to open this type of file box. That operation will give SNDREC32.EXE control again but it won't just play the sound and disappear. To do that would require you to use a more complex method of going thru the Folder Options and editing the usage and in the Play operation put in sndrec32.exe %1 /play /close . On Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 3:16 pm, Marina wrote: >By sound icon I mean the same as the icon by the cloack. >Aol sounds are like: Welcome and other sounds. >Yes I have the Real Player installed. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Sound icon. Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 6:01 am Posted by Marina (109 messages posted) I followed your instruction about the sound and the SNDREC32.EXE is not on the list. Anyway, before I've read you message, I uninstalled AOL and reinstalled it. I got the sounds but in the sound folder of AOL there are the icons of Real Play, which it supposed to be the icon you put on this message. I don't know if the Real Player was installed when I purchased the computer or it came with some other program that I installed. Would it be a good advise to remove it from the computer? As I mentioned before, some of the sounds of Lotus program are not having the icon that you put it on this message. There were there before. I know because I saw them. There is only the name of the sound and when I click on it, there is not sound. I can uninstalled the Lotus program and reinstall it, and maybe it is going to work. Thanks for your reply. Marina. On Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 3:37 pm, dhm wrote: > >I guess you mean, > > >The wave files default to SNDREC32.EXE to play them. Real Player, an obnoxious piece >of bloatware/spyware which I refuse to allow on my system, took over the associations. > > While holding down Shift, right-click one of your AOL sounds. > Select Open with from the menu that pops up. > SNDREC will be a short way down the selection list. > Check off the Always use this program to open this type of file box. > >That operation will give SNDREC32.EXE control again but it won't just play the sound >and disappear. To do that would require you to use a more complex method of going >thru the Folder Options and editing the usage and in the Play operation put >in sndrec32.exe %1 /play /close . > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Sound icon. Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 8:38 am Posted by dhm (990 messages posted) Sorry for the confusion but I slough the responsibility off on Microsoft. Win3.1 had a program SNDREC.EXE and Win95 replaced this with SNDREC32.EXE but some of the menus continue to say SNDREC when that will really connect to SNDREC32.EXE. It's nice to see that you are careful. I refused to use RealPlayer and for the couple sites which used it and which I wanted to hear I wrote emails telling them so and said they should have Windows Media Player as an alternate. And they did. All because of me. No, actually because a lot of people have objected to it. But I haven't missed it and sites tend to use WMP or Macromedia Flash nowadays. I haven't run into one with RealPlayer that I wanted to hear in over a year. No, there was that excerpt from a 1930s cartoon of the song "Suzy Snowflake", a Christmas song that no one hears nowadays. It was in .RA format but I can play those in Irfanview. There is a RealPlayer Alternative but it is for Win2K and higher. Make your own decision on that. I don't know what you mean by Lotus. I only know that as the most popular DOS spreadsheet program. On Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 6:01 am, Marina wrote: >I followed your instruction about the sound and the SNDREC32.EXE is not on the list. >Anyway, before I've read you message, I uninstalled AOL and reinstalled it. I got >the sounds but in the sound folder of AOL there are the icons of Real Play, which >it supposed to be the icon you put on this message. >I don't know if the Real Player was installed when I purchased the computer or it >came with some other program that I installed. Would it be a good advise to remove >it from the computer? >As I mentioned before, some of the sounds of Lotus program are not having the icon >that you put it on this message. There were there before. I know because I saw them. >There is only the name of the sound and when I click on it, there is not sound. I >can uninstalled the Lotus program and reinstall it, and maybe it is going to work. >Thanks for your reply. >Marina. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Sound icon. Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 8:41 am Posted by Keith Stanier (1248 messages posted) On Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 3:16 pm, Marina wrote: >By sound icon I mean the same as the icon by the cloack. The sound icon by the clock is just the volume control which you add or remove from the systray using the Multimedia in Control Panel. On Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 3:16 pm, dhm wrote: That operation will give SNDREC32.EXE control again but it won't just play the sound and disappear. To do that would require you to use a more complex method of going thru the Folder Options and editing the usage and in the Play operation put in sndrec32.exe %1 /play /close . I've used that for many years. I use Windows Media Player 9.0 and WinAmp. I find that WMP takes a long time to load just to play a short wav file so I use sndrec32.exe with the /play /close. I use WinAmp just for mp3's. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum