Clean Solution!
Sunday, October 6, 2002 at 8:29 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Fernando
(4 messages posted)
Expanding on Andrew's tip, I found that all you really need to fix this problem is
one particular sub-key in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents key.
It turns out that (at least in my case) the problem was that my user registry was
missing the following sub-key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\.Default
This sub-key contains two entries, .Current and .Default, which themselves contain
the text:
%SystemRoot%\media\Windows XP Ding.wav
This is the key that tells your system about the default ding sound which is used
by the Volume Control Slider!
You can easily make these changes by hand in your registry, but please be careful
as any errors in editing your registry can cause your computer to become unstable,
not boot, etc... DO NOT ATTEMPT anything I describe above if you don't know EXACTLY
what you are doing. Don't blame me if you destroy your Windows installation!
That said, I have a very small registry export file which contains the required key
to fix this problem. If you'd like a copy, send me an email and I will send it to
you. All the disclaimers above apply "doubly so" here!
Hope this helps.
-Fernando
On Saturday, April 27, 2002 at 8:43 pm, Andrew Dunowski wrote:
>I found a solution, as it turns out Windows XP doesn't just have one registry, it
>has one for every user. Knowing this I tried something, I have 2 users on this computer,
>one for my girlfriend and I, and the other for her 5 year old son. I logged into
>his user, and the volume control worked fine.
>
>I went into the registry as him, and saved a copy of the following registry key
and
>all its subtrees:
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents
>
>Then I changed the user back to myself and deleted the same registry key and all
>its subfolders.
>
>FINALLY, I double clicked on the backed up registry key and poof, once it was done
>I had instant volume control DING noises and the DefaultSound sound was back in
my
>sounds... Simple solution for such an annoying problem, hope this helps.
>
>Drew =)
>
>
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- Found a Solution!!!!! (Andrew Dunowski: Saturday, April 27, 2002 at 8:43 pm)
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