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Posted by John Pollard on February 15, 2007, 3:39 pm
Please log in for more thread options R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, Jim.
>
> Correct. Except...
>
>> Now you get a menu -- scroll down "Program Events", to
>> the quicken directory: under this ,
>
> OFTEN, after installation of Quicken, this menu does not
> include a listing for Quicken at all! This has been an
> ongoing problem for several years now, ever since Windows
> 2000 introduced new security features, as I recall. As a
> one-man, one-computer kind of guy, I've never had to
> learn much about User Accounts and permissions and such,
> so I don't fully understand how to avoid the problem.
> But somewhere in the process of Installing Quicken as an
> Administrator or as a normal Power User, the Quicken
> Sounds settings don't get written properly into the
> .DEFAULT part of the Registry.
Just musing.
Intuit has long said that Quicken should only be installed by
*the* administrator; I wonder how many of the folks having the
sound problem installed Quicken as a user with administrative
rights, instead of *the* administrator?
> Thus, there are no sounds
> in Quicken. And when the user navigates to the Sounds
> menu - as you quite properly instructed - there is only a
> blank wall where Quicken should be.
> See my Reply to the OP for some details - and a fix.
>
> RC
>
>> Click mouse (lower left corner), on start: get menu ,
>> then click Settings, then control panel.
>> When menu opens, click "sounds and audio devices.
>> you will get a menu, click on the "Sounds" tab.
>> Now you get a menu -- scroll down "Program Events", to
>> the quicken directory: under this ,
>> marked with speakers are most of your sounds in
>> quicken- you can test them with the right arrow
>> on that line. IF YOU KNOW WHERE your sound wav
>> files are located, you can search for them with
>> the "Browse" button - when you find it, double
>> click on that file. then use the arrow button
>> again to test the new configuration. There are
>> some sounds in the quicken directory, and you
>> can search for others, useing the "Search" command.
>> when in THAT menu, use *.WAV as what to search
>> for (The * , or upper case 6, is a "Wildcard",
>> searching for every example of a .wav file in your
>> computer (tho , make sure it is searching in
>> MY COMPUTER, as the default for this search
>> command is in the "Start Menu")!
>> Give it a try! Jim
>>
>> pjgiv@comcast.net wrote:
>>> Just installed 2007 over 2004 and went very smooth. All data
>>> converted, etc. However, I want to change the
>>> sound when opening up the register. In Sound
>>> properties there is no listing for Quicken. Even looked
>>> in the ini file, but found nothing. How do I create a
>>> new scheme for Quicken in Sound and Media through
>>> control panel?
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John Pollard
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