i have a toshiba m100 with windows vista home basic, i recently updated my bios and then my windows sound scheme doesn't play anymore even if the "play sound scheme on startup" is enabled. no startup sounds, no internet explorer sound i don't hear audio from Internet itunes etc but i can play music files using media player or other media players. i already installed audio driver updates and still nothing happens.
View 7 RepliesI keep getting a yellow exclamation point on windows start navigation sound I can go in and select it and it works for the time it is selected. but as soon as I reboot the yellow exclamation point comes back how do I fix this can someone help me please it annoying and aggravating to have to turn that on all the time. I even did a system restore back to yesterday thinking I did something to it no go still dose it. nothing else broken all works good sound everything just not this one.
View 9 Replies View RelatedAlthough the built in speakers in my laptop work perfectly - music, dvds, videos, etc. - my vista default sound scheme has stopped working. It was working previously and I am at a loss to understand why it has stopped. I have checked that the speakers are not muted, ensured that the levels are properly set, checked that I have the most up to date driver, etc., etc., etc. None of the sounds work, including the start up, normal alerts and so on. When I go to the sound scheme and test individual sounds they do not play, however, if I open the individual sound files they will sound in media player. I know there is an expert out there somewhere who will know what to do.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhen I right click on the sound icon in the system tray, it brings up the sounds associated with Windows (Vista Home Premium) actions. However, when I click on the Play icon, the sounds don't play. WAV files on my computer are associated with the Windows Media Player (although I've tried the other available sound players too and the same thing happens - no sound. My sound card seems to work fine and I have the latest driver. If I go directly to Windows>Media and play the sounds, they PLAY!!! I've set all WAV files to play with Windows Media Player. Sometimes the Windows logo, when booting up, plays a sound - but most of the time it doesn't.
View 5 Replies View RelatedThis worked for me before but I messed it up. I used to be able to record the sound coming from my computer and play it to my microphone right away as it goes. Meaning when I record something, it would record whatever is playing on the computer. But I forgot how to make that setting.
View 9 Replies View RelatedA month ago my laptop crashed , and I brought it to the store, and now they fixed it but 2 weeks ago I noticed there's no sound anymore When I play my song, I click on the sound icon, and it shows there is sound, ( my speakers are default)but I can't hear a thing! I also checked if something was on mute. Nothing is muted I also plugged in external speakers and a headphone, and I still couldn't hear sound. my operating system is vista premium.
View 5 Replies View RelatedBut more specifically how to play a particular sound eg Joanna Lumley saying You've got post or somesuch file on receipt of new OE message?
View 5 Replies View Relatedas i start my laptop, there this symbol which indicates digitalpersona personal on the lower right hand hand side of the screen that blinks continuously with a wierd pop up noise. It does so for 5-10 mins at the start and then it stops blinking. The voice is so dam irritating that i have to put my laptop on mute.
View 5 Replies View RelatedThere was a lot of controversy of the new Windows Start sound in Windows Vista. Originally, Microsoft was planning on making this a mandatory sound that users would not be able to disable. This sounds like a great idea from a Marketing perspective since all Windows users world-wide would hear the same notes when their computer starts up. However from a user perspective this could be a nightmare. Thankfully Microsoft responded to the vocal Microsoft community and gave users the option to disable this sound.
Follow these steps to disable your Windows startup sound:...
I have my startup time down to a reasonable one, but my problem is after It boots. When I get to my desktop, it takes 4-5 mins to be able to open any programs. All I have to startup is my AVG antivirus, and sound & graphics drivers. Will post any necessary info.Tried spyware scans and virus scans, no problems there.
View 8 Replies View RelatedAs you can see, the Icons have like a White or Black thing round them. I think the smoothing is not ok. I also Can`t enable the Aero Scheme, don`t know why. I just turned my Computer off, and when i turned it on again, there was no Wallpaper, the wallpaper was a gray solid color, and the Bar, the one that has the quick launch, etc was all black, it wasn`t on Aero Scheme, the way it was. I tried System Restore, searched for Virus in AVG on Slow Scan, and adjusted it for best appearence in Advanced System Settings
View 5 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if someone could help me. I can't figure out how to make my color scheme stay in any particular setting. IE. I use WMP classic and it (I think) is not compatible with Windows Aero color scheme, so it changes automatically from Aero to Basic, then back to Aero when WMPC is closed.
That is not the problem, my problem is that I would like to just put the scheme back to Window Vista Basic, thus avoiding the need to change back and forth all the time. Everytime I reboot the scheme comes back as Aero.
This seems so simple, just select desired scheme, apply then once I logout or reboot those settings should save.
Power Scheme-Sleep Mode I use Vista on my Dell PC and have my power settings set to turn off my monitor in 15 minutes and my PC in 20 minutes (sleep mode). When my PC enters the Sleep mode, it only stays in that mode a short time, usually three or so minutes at the maximum, then it activates and my monitor turns on. Is this normal for this power option? I would expect my PC to stay in the Sleep
mode for a longer period of time, at least some of the time.
I have a Hp Pavillion computer with windows vista home premium and somehow I could not get Windows Aero to work. When I first had this computer, I had Windows Aero running with all the translucent effects.So I do know that my computer is compliant with windows aero but its somehow disabled. My computer automatically changed to windows vista basic.
View 9 Replies View RelatedThe sound failed a while back for no apparent reason, no new hardware, possibly new software. I installed a pci sound card it worked fine. I just installed a pctv card in the slot my sound occupied. I have tv and no sound. I have updated realtec drivers, the device manager says it's working properly, when I open the audio manager it says its sending sound to the speakers.
View 4 Replies View Relatedhere's no (and there was no) audible sound for taskbar notifications (balloons). E.g-in windows update (i set it only to inform me, not download). there is a balloon notification but no sound. sound options are all enable and working other sounds appear i Can hear them. Windows- Balloon.wav" correctly associated with System Notification- and sound test is working. changing between sound schemes also does not help...In XP baloon notif. sound is working but not in my vista...Maybe i'ts vista default behavior?
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Peculiar sounds annoy me so I have set 'Sounds' to virtually nil using Control Panel/Sounds and disabling all the Windows boings and beeps and saved the setting as "My own".
However, I keep getting the odd boing, burp and beep, such as when closing a programme after pasting something and closing E7.
Is there somewhere else I should look to stop these irritants?
I have extraneous sounds left over from viewing a Web page video. I have
done all the anti-virus/Spybot/reset Internet Explorer tricks that I can
think of.
Brand new Dell came with Vista. Ignore it? Or anyone have hints for fixing
the sound card?
Does anybody know if there is a free software program, that makes a sound whenever you are typing in windows vista? I just like the typewriter sound, and miss it?
View 5 Replies View RelatedOperating system Vista Home Premium 64. Windows sounds suddenly don't play. All I get is a click but no sound.
View 9 Replies View Relatedthe windows sounds like the startup sound and the asterisks etc are not loud enough even at the max volume. The music and video etc. are loud and fine.but the general windows sounds are too low in volume even at max volume.and it recognizes it too because when i set the volume to max in the corner to next to the clock,the green bar fills only 20% or so when it beeps.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy mom changed her theme the other day and now there are no sounds for new messaged received, opening and closing windows, logging in or out, emptying recycle bin...etc. I've tried going into sounds and picking new ones, old ones and nothing works. In sounds where you can "test" a certain sound, nothing plays. It's not the speakers cause music plays just fine. I loaded all the windows media files into windows media player and they work so it's not that. How do I get them to play again?
View 6 Replies View RelatedSometime my system sounds work and most of the time they don't. My Device Manager doesn't show any problems. When I right click on the sound icon in the System Tray and click on Sounds, then try the sounds, most of the time they don't work. I have all the latest digitally signed drivers (HP Pavilion laptop). When I go straight to the Sounds folder and try the sounds, they don't work. I don't even know which app is supposed to play these sounds (it might help if I knew in order to solve the problem). I have no viruses or malware in my system. Not sure - but it seems like the system sounds stop working sometime while the system is booted and has been running for a while. Please could someone offer some other things to check or try? What app is supposed to run these sounds? Are there any other sites that might be able to help (or other Newsgroups)? I depend heavily on these sounds working properly so thi sissue is important to me to solve. If I've left out any relative detail,
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am running Vista 64 and installed a program which apparently had a virus or I got it using IE8. I found an entry in the start up tab that was causing a problem. I went into the registry and deleted the item from the startup tab and I also disabled it in the startup tab. The startup tab still shows the item even though it is disabled and deleted from the registry. Why does it still show in MSCONFIG and how do I delete it from the start up entry
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhy does Win 7 want to fall back to a "basic" colour scheme? When I start to watch an AVI file in Win Media player it almost immediately pops a message to say that perfromance is slow.... running low on mem for Aero...suggest I go to basic display Why would it do that? I have Win 7, a damn good sys - with 6Gb of mem. I did read that it caused some incompatability with progs - but I using an AVI in MS media player... so surely that should be compatible? I have breakdown of how file was encoded if people interested - but lets keep simple for now... Why would MS media player make Win7 do that?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI just installed the new update for the Ultimate Extra Sounds Schemes. When I have one of these new schemes selected as my sounds, when I shut down or reboot my pc, I see a brief black screen with red text and something about explorer.exe not respoding or something. It happens with either of these new sound schemes Glass, or Pearl. When I put if back to default, problem goes away. Nice extra MSFT!
View 9 Replies View Related3 days ago my computer started making very quiet beeping sounds, it happens mostly when I use Mozilla Firefox and Windows Explorer. My impression is that the sound is coming from the motherboard. When I restarted in safe mode the sound disappeared,
so after a very long elimination process I discovered that when I change control panel-power options-processor power management settings the frequency of beeping changes as well. Until now I was using balanced settings (min processor state 5% and max processor state 100%), if I choose high performance (min and max processor state are both 100%) the beeping becomes very frequent almost continuous, and if I choose power saver settings (min processor state 5% and max processor state 50%) I don't notice the beeping anymore but of course I don't want to keep using only 50% of my processor. I am using a desktop computer, not a laptop. Except for the annoying sound the computer works normally. I have Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit SP1.
I have been using Office 2007 for about a year, and this morning something changed. Historically, when I would designate a mail item for permanent deletion (by hitting shift and delete at the same time), a dialog box would pop up asking me if I was sure that I wanted that item to be permanently deleted. When the dialog box appeared, a sound was made simultaneously. (I believe that if I clicked yes to the question in the dialog box, another sound was made.) Today, for no apparent reason, there are no sounds made. I opened Control Panel and selected "sounds" to see if Outlook was among the programs listed where certain actions within a program are accentuated with sounds, but i see that Outlook is not listed. I restored the Sounds from "modified default" to "Windows Default" and re-started Outlook, but the sound was not restored. Does anyone know how to restore my sounds?
View 8 Replies View RelatedSo I am goofy and want my Vista Ultimate to play my own wav files instead of the ones it came with. but they simply don't play at all. I have done everything I know how to get this to work. I go to control panel sounds and the sound tab and have put the .wav files i want to use into the C:/Windows/Media folder and am able to select them through the sound menu... but the test option plays nothing for my wavs and it doesnt do anything when the system is supposed to make said sound...
I even checked all the properties to make sure they were the same the only differance I can see is that the sound files that work are owned by the system and the ones that dont are owned by administraitor. I do know how to change the ownership of files through the properties menu but even in Administraitor mode there is no option for system... I do not however think that it is the cause... is it that vista just doesnt want you using your own sound files?
Installed Service Pack 1 for Vista regular edition and now when I play Halo all the sounds have reverb on them. How do I get rid of this?
View 7 Replies View RelatedToday I installed a program that will let you record any sound coming from your speakers. It's a paid program and it's a reputable program but I noticed something after the reboot. Im not sure it's related or not. When I even move my cursor over a icon on my desktop it gives that windows sounds, like a critical beep. When I click on a topic here in the newsgroup to read, same thing. Clicking on contrl panel incons or any incons up there, same noise.
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