Crippled "Sound recorder"

My Windows sound recorder has no buttons....It's unusable... I can load a file with the File Menu but can't push an absent play button. All function buttons are gone, and I've tried restoring the file from my WIN98se CD, as well as reinstalling windows with Setup. What can I do to reverse this mysterious corruption? I've noticed nothing wrong with anything else 'sound related' on the system. Should I restore anything else besides (sndrec32.exe)?
Confident you will help, signed sidermike

 

re: Sound Recorder

Found this info on reinstalling the recorder:
SOUND RECORDER SETUP
The following contains information on how to install, uninstall and reinstall Sound Recorder.

Click Start / Settings / Control Panel, double click on Add Remove Programs icon
Click the Windows Setup tab
Highlight Multimedia click the details button.
Once within Multimedia:
Check the box for Sound Recorder and click ok and then apply to install.
Uncheck the box and click ok and then apply to uninstall.
Uncheck the box and click ok and then apply go back in and recheck the box click ok and then apply to reinstall.


***Make sure that the file you are loading is a "wav" file. I don't think it works with any other format.***

 

This must be a Microsoft fix... Sounds "so Windows "!!!! But Heck, I know that procedure works for a missing Volume control button in the systray, so I'll giat (give it a try) :> and let u know.
Thanks for the attn.

sidermike

 

JAZCAN gave you the right steps.

WHen I first got this BBS 2 or so years ago and WIN95 was the predominant OS, that was a common problem.
Dozens of times I'd provide those steps to fix SoundRecorder.

THe problem invariably stemed from the installation of another sound-play-back program that would over-write the sound recorder. Most notorious was Media Player. and as each meida Player version kept coming out, and people would upgrade to it, it would overwrite the SoundRecorder and make it as the default /wav player.

Problem was, SOundRecorder was far superior for speed playback than Media Player. Media Player was a hog, and took time to load up. Sound Recorder was beautiful in that you click on a file, it jumps up near instantaneously, plays the short wave file and then shuts itself off. Beautiful and clean.


This was ONLY good for short wave files though. ANything over 1mb was not recommended because it had to load up the whole thing. There appeared to be no "buffering" going on. Whereas moer up-to-date wave playing programs had the buffer built it so it could start the playback, even whil it continued to load up more of the larger file.

I still use SoundRecorder as the default wave file. If I'M working on a large wave file, then I open it up through Wave Studio or Cakewalk, or similar.

Just a bit of history for education purposes.