No Sound Events Are Played

WinXP stopped playing sound events (and I don't remember when it started, maybe after installing an update of messenger).

All the other sound is working fine, playing CD's, .wav's, even testing the sounds is OK. no device problems, no <no names> in my registry. checked and double checked settings.

Found 2 similar problems on the web and at MS KB, one after installing messenger plus and one concerning <no name>.

I ran out of possibilities.

regards,
BenJ

 

By sound events I gather you mean the exclamation, critical stop, Start and exit windows sounds etc?
If so go into sounds and audio devices in the control panel. Under the sounds tab you may find that some programme has selected "none" for some or all the sounds available. You can select the windows default sound scheme from the dropdown list and then customise to get rid of the sounds you don't want such as that annoying click whenever you click on a Web page.

Paul

 

Sorry for the late reply but I've been on holidays for a while.
Indeed it concerns the typical windows events. If the problem was that easy....
No, currently I managed to get some MS engineers to have a look into the problem, but it have been quiet for some time now.

Regards BenJ

 

sound problem resolved

Sorry for the late response, but finally this was the solution. It was caused by Nero CD-rom software:

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Actually it's not exactly as the MSKB article states: there doesn't
have to be a null value for this not to work! If you look at the
string at the root of HKEY_CURRENT_USER you should have name=(Default)
Type=REG_SZ Data=(value not set). After you install Neromix 1.3.039
the data changes to nothing ! If you open the string there is no
value, but if you choose "change binary data" you will see there is a
value!!
The solution: simply right click on that string and delete it. Windows
will immediatley create the right default string and PRESTO! all your
sounds are back!!
Have a great day!
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http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...b;en-us;Q262256