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re: HELP!!! Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker as the default beep'
Sunday, August 31, 2003 at 7:21 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dan
(1 messages posted)
THIS ONE WORKS
I didn't write this but it worked for me
RE: windows XP: how to activate the beep (when XP loses the default beep)
From: "Gary R. Van Sickle"
To:
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 20:45:05 -0500
Subject: RE: windows XP: how to activate the beep (when XP loses the default beep)
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> This is what I had to do to enable the beep under:
> Windows XP Home Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1
> Cygwin.dll 1.3.22
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> It seems that cygwin from 1.3.21 uses the windows "default beep" sound. I
> wasn't able to set the default beep with the control panel "sounds
> and audio devices" applet until I edited the registry adding a key:
> My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\.Default
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> After doing this I could then use the control panel applet to set a sound
> for "default beep".
>
Lev, you are a GOD. I've had no beep at work for ages now, and that did the
trick.
DING DING DIDIDIDIDIDIDING!!! My coworkers hate me once again. ;-)
> Doing a quick google it seems that this is a common problem with windows
> xp - somehow it occasionally (and randomly, by all accounts) "loses" the
> default beep, usually during sound driver installation.
"Hello, my name is Bill Gates. I have been the richest person in the world for
like a decade now, yet I cannot get my company's product's most critical data
storage subsystem to behave in a deterministic manner. Nor have I been able to
find a competent hair stylist. Yet I am still the richest man in the world.
Makes no sense, does it?"
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.
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