In Windows 98, whenever you move the slider on the Volume Control in the Task Bar, a ding will sound louder or softer depending on which way you move it. Well, this ding is now missing from my machine.

I have searched Google on this, but I can only find the solution for Windows XP. With XP, it is due to the Default and Current key Names missing in the Registry.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default

I have up-loaded screen captures of my registry of these keys:

http://www.users.bigpond.com/wsc3/q...

Could someone please do a screen capture of their Windows 98 registry, of these keys, and up-load them to their home page. I need to see what is missing from mine. No home page, then go here: http://www.imagefoo.com/

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It's likely nowhere near as complicated as you're trying to make it - have you looked in Control Panel -> Sounds to see what your default sounds & settings are? Have you looked for 'ding.wav'?

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Hello Jester, copy the following text into a Notepad page and save in a directory where you can find it as "ding.reg" (without quotes). Then navigate to the directory and double click on the "ding.reg" file. This should reset the ding sound on the volume control. You may have to restart your computer to have it take effect.

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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\.Default]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\.Default\.Default]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\media\\Musica Default.WAV"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\.Default\.Current]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\media\\Musica Default.WAV"

If you are actually missing the DING.WAV file, Which is located in the C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA Folder.
You can extract it from the Windows CD it is located on the CD in the WIN98 Folder and in the WIN98_70.CAB File.

I've never run into it - handy if partially sighted I guess.

Looking at the registry entries given in #2 makes me think it is part of the Musica Sound Scheme (which I think was a separate option on either W31 or W95).

Go to Control Panel/Add-Remove Programs/Windows Setup/Multimedia

If you invoke Multimedia Sounds Schemes this could well fix it. It might be best to make this your first try rather than hacking just one part into the registry. Those registry entries don't show in mine but I haven't got sound schemes invoked.

The other possibility is in Accessibility/Accessibility Options.

Anything you add in Windows Startup can always be removed again if it doesn't help or you don't want it.

DerekW

Thank you, JohnBC. You put me on the right track. Although, I could have worded it a bit better by saying the slider would not ding any more when moved. The Ding.wav file was not missing from the Media folder.

Even though your method of using the "ding.reg" file would work, it would have put the "Musica Default.WAV" in there; not Ding.wav. I prefer to work on the Registry manually, so I opened it up in Regedit.exe and put this in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\.Default]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\.Default\.Default

In Data, I typed this in:

C:\WINDOWS\media\Ding.wav

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\.Default\.Current

In Data, I typed this in:

C:\WINDOWS\media\Ding.wav

Restarted Windows and it works fine now.

BTW, un-installing and re-installing Multimedia Sound Schemes in Windows Setup will not fix this problem.

I just found out via another forum that un-installing Norton AntVirus will remove those keys from the registry, and I did that a week ago.

Glad to hear you sorted it and that JohnBC's solution did the trick. Thx for popping back.

DerekW

No problems, Derek. I just need to point out that there is a "dot" before the "Default" and "Current" keys. It is almost impossible to see them here. Though, I don't know what would happen if you left them out.

Hi Jester, please to help out and thanks for letting us know the good results.

Yeah, they are none too clear on here (possibly the particular font the forum uses).

It wouldn't have worked without them because the dots are part of the registry paths. The original batch file copied from #2 would have worked of-course.

Fortunately if you make a .reg file pointing to an incorrect path, it does absolutely nothing (despite informing you that the action was successful).

DerekW