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Posted by R. C. White on February 15, 2007, 4:08 pm
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Hi, John.
> I wonder how many of the folks having the sound problem installed Quicken
> as a user with administrative rights, instead of *the* administrator?
Probably most. Including me. ;^}
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Vista Ultimate x64)
> 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?
>
> --
>
> John Pollard
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