Re: Silence befell Win2k Pro ...

From: Hans-Jochen Trost (dont-email_at_but.post-re.ply)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:51:54 -0500

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 05:40:29 -0700,
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>
>Win2k does not treat the content of C:\WinNT\media as
>protected system files, so you can chop and add whatever
>you want in this folder to make your own sound schemes...
>but are you sure your files are a genuine .wav format?
>
>If not then the OS won't recognise them... if you use
>sound files with different extentions (like .au or .ram
>or .wmp or .mp3) they almost certainly won't work...
>
>Go to C/Panel -> Folder options -> Views... enable "show
>file extensions for know file types" and take another look
>at the C:\WinNT\media folder...

The file is called whistle.wav, and it works for the same purpose on
my backup PC (that's my older PC, doing various special services
including tape backup for both of my PCs). There, I have Windows 98
running.

If I go into Control Panel, open the Sounds applet, select "Exit
Windows", I get the file name displayed, and the test playing works.
Windows Media Player has no problem with it either. My Win2k machine
did play it at the desired time also before either SP3 or SP4 were
installed.

I had the file in a different directory, and the Sound applet showed
it with its full path and still played the test correctly. I now have
made a copy into the Media directory and tried to use it from there,
to no avail. Test works, real performance does not. I should add
that the whole complement of files is saved as a separate sound
scheme, and this scheme is the one offered when the Sounds applet
opens.

So, Windows does know perfectly well how to play the file and just
refuses to do it,

Cheers, Jochen

>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>All,
>>
>>ever since I installed service pack 3 or service pack 4
>(I went
>>through both), the sounds for Start Windows and Exit
>Windows do not
>>play any longer. The Sounds applet in the Control panel
>shows the
>>sound file to be present and plays it upon clicking the
>test button.
>>(Not to badmouth Microsoft, but I have replaced the
>references to the
>>two default fileswith one to one and the same file
>sounding a soothing
>>whistle of a steam engine.)
>>
>>I appreciate any suggestions.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Jochen
>>
>>hjtrost at microfab dot com
>>
>>
>>Nil nimium studeo, Caesar, tibi velle placere,
>>nec scire ut an sis albus an ater homo.
>> Catullus
>>.
>>

hjtrost at microfab dot com

Nil nimium studeo, Caesar, tibi velle placere,
nec scire ut an sis albus an ater homo.
                                          Catullus