Recovering from a total reformat

Posted by Mark W on November 7, 2006, 5:40 am

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Hi all
I just had to restore my hard drive (Win XP) from a total crash. I
restored from backup and all seems ok BUT I now have no sound in
Quicken. The sound files are there (in a folder under c:program
filesquickenw but they will not play.
In the Control Panel>Sound area there are no Quicken sounds listed. I
tried adding Playsound=1 to the quicken.ini but that didn't change
anything. I have the box checked under Quicken setup.

Can anyone advise what I need to do? I have searched archives but do
not see this problem. All I have seen is how to get sound if the sound
scheme is listed in the Control Panel.

TIA

Mark

Posted by John Pollard on November 7, 2006, 10:26 am

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> I just had to restore my hard drive (Win XP) from a total

> crash. I

> restored from backup and all seems ok BUT I now have no sound

> in

> Quicken. The sound files are there (in a folder under

> c:program

> filesquickenw but they will not play.

> In the Control Panel>Sound area there are no Quicken sounds

> listed. I

> tried adding Playsound=1 to the quicken.ini but that didn't

> change

> anything. I have the box checked under Quicken setup.

> Can anyone advise what I need to do? I have searched archives

> but do

> not see this problem. All I have seen is how to get sound if

> the sound

> scheme is listed in the Control Panel.

Somewhere in the archives is a somewhat complex method that
requires editing of the Windows registry. I'll let you Google
for it.

But if you installed Quicken using a different Windows user than
the Windows user who is running Quicken, that might be the
source of your problem. I think in most cases, you can avoid
that, by modifying your non-admin user to have admin rights,
installing Quicken as that user, then removing the admin rights
from that user (in your case, I think you should do an uninstall
first ... as the user who installed Quicken, deleting all
Windows folders with Quicken in the name after the uninstall;
and when you reinstall, do so to a new folder.)

--
John Pollard
First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
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Posted by Mark W on November 7, 2006, 1:17 pm

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I was the original user and I am the user who did the reinstall
I have googled and had no luck

If I do an uninstall reinstall that should do it but I dont want to
John Pollard wrote:

> > I just had to restore my hard drive (Win XP) from a total

> > crash. I

> > restored from backup and all seems ok BUT I now have no sound

> > in

> > Quicken. The sound files are there (in a folder under

> > c:program

> > filesquickenw but they will not play.

> > In the Control Panel>Sound area there are no Quicken sounds

> > listed. I

> > tried adding Playsound=1 to the quicken.ini but that didn't

> > change

> > anything. I have the box checked under Quicken setup.

> >

> > Can anyone advise what I need to do? I have searched archives

> > but do

> > not see this problem. All I have seen is how to get sound if

> > the sound

> > scheme is listed in the Control Panel.

> Somewhere in the archives is a somewhat complex method that

> requires editing of the Windows registry. I'll let you Google

> for it.

> But if you installed Quicken using a different Windows user than

> the Windows user who is running Quicken, that might be the

> source of your problem. I think in most cases, you can avoid

> that, by modifying your non-admin user to have admin rights,

> installing Quicken as that user, then removing the admin rights

> from that user (in your case, I think you should do an uninstall

> first ... as the user who installed Quicken, deleting all

> Windows folders with Quicken in the name after the uninstall;

> and when you reinstall, do so to a new folder.)

> --

> John Pollard

> First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com

> Please reply to newsgroup

Posted by R. C. White on November 7, 2006, 6:07 pm

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: 7bit

Hi, Mark.

This is another of the things that Intuit could easily fix, but they
haven't. It has been a problem since Windows 2000 introduced new security
measures, including different settings for different users. Since I'm only
one guy with one computer and no network of any kind, I've never had to
learn very much about users and permissions (until Vista). But I did learn
just enough to fix this Quicken sounds problem back in Win2K - and the same
fix still works, with only minor revision to fit your computer instead of
mine. This problem has been discussed here several times and this fix has
worked with Win2K, WinXP and the beta builds of Windows Vista.

The fix requires a simple Registry edit to add the sounds to the .DEFAULT
user in the HKEY_USERS tree. If you are familiar with editing the Registry,
this is a quick and easy fix. If you are not comfortable with editing the
Registry, please get some help before tackling it. There's no Undo button,
and a small typo or other mistake could have dire consequences.

Attached is my file "QSounds.txt". It's the plain-text version of a
.reg (Registry) file. You can load it into Notepad, then use Edit's Find
and Replace to Find all instances of my folder E:\QuickenW and change them
to your own folder (C:\Program Files\QuickenW). Note that the
folder path uses TWO backslashes, rather than one. When you've finished the
edit, you can save the file, then change its extension to .reg. Then just
click on the filename in Windows Explorer. It may seem that nothing
happened, but the next time you start Quicken, you should hear the
"qopen.wav" sound.

Before this fix, if you go to Sounds in WinXP's Control Panel and look for
Quicken sounds, you won't find any listing for Quicken at all. After the
Registry edit, you should find a heading for Quicken with several sound
events under it. You can keep the defaults or edit the sounds to suit
yourself.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Vista x86 build 5744 RC2)

>I was the original user and I am the user who did the reinstall

> I have googled and had no luck

> If I do an uninstall reinstall that should do it but I dont want to

> John Pollard wrote:

>> > I just had to restore my hard drive (Win XP) from a total

>> > crash. I

>> > restored from backup and all seems ok BUT I now have no sound

>> > in

>> > Quicken. The sound files are there (in a folder under

>> > c:program

>> > filesquickenw but they will not play.

>> > In the Control Panel>Sound area there are no Quicken sounds

>> > listed. I

>> > tried adding Playsound=1 to the quicken.ini but that didn't

>> > change

>> > anything. I have the box checked under Quicken setup.

>> >

>> > Can anyone advise what I need to do? I have searched archives

>> > but do

>> > not see this problem. All I have seen is how to get sound if

>> > the sound

>> > scheme is listed in the Control Panel.

>> Somewhere in the archives is a somewhat complex method that

>> requires editing of the Windows registry. I'll let you Google

>> for it.

>> But if you installed Quicken using a different Windows user than

>> the Windows user who is running Quicken, that might be the

>> source of your problem. I think in most cases, you can avoid

>> that, by modifying your non-admin user to have admin rights,

>> installing Quicken as that user, then removing the admin rights

>> from that user (in your case, I think you should do an uninstall

>> first ... as the user who installed Quicken, deleting all

>> Windows folders with Quicken in the name after the uninstall;

>> and when you reinstall, do so to a new folder.)

>> --

>> John Pollard

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[HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenActivity Bar Menu]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenActivity Bar
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@="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qabmenu.wav"

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@="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qclick.wav"

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@="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qdelete.wav"

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@="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qdelete.wav"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenMemorize]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenMemorize.Current]
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenRecord.Current]
@="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qrecord.wav"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenRecord.Default]
@="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qrecord.wav"
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Posted by Mark W on November 7, 2006, 7:18 pm

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RC
It worked perfectly
I just had to point it to the opening tones
Everything else fell into place once I adjusted the registry
thanks again
R. C. White wrote:

> Hi, Mark.

> This is another of the things that Intuit could easily fix, but they

> haven't. It has been a problem since Windows 2000 introduced new security

> measures, including different settings for different users. Since I'm only

> one guy with one computer and no network of any kind, I've never had to

> learn very much about users and permissions (until Vista). But I did learn

> just enough to fix this Quicken sounds problem back in Win2K - and the same

> fix still works, with only minor revision to fit your computer instead of

> mine. This problem has been discussed here several times and this fix has

> worked with Win2K, WinXP and the beta builds of Windows Vista.

> The fix requires a simple Registry edit to add the sounds to the .DEFAULT

> user in the HKEY_USERS tree. If you are familiar with editing the Registry,

> this is a quick and easy fix. If you are not comfortable with editing the

> Registry, please get some help before tackling it. There's no Undo button,

> and a small typo or other mistake could have dire consequences.

> Attached is my file "QSounds.txt". It's the plain-text version of a

> .reg (Registry) file. You can load it into Notepad, then use Edit's Find

> and Replace to Find all instances of my folder E:\QuickenW and change them

> to your own folder (C:\Program Files\QuickenW). Note that the

> folder path uses TWO backslashes, rather than one. When you've finished the

> edit, you can save the file, then change its extension to .reg. Then just

> click on the filename in Windows Explorer. It may seem that nothing

> happened, but the next time you start Quicken, you should hear the

> "qopen.wav" sound.

> Before this fix, if you go to Sounds in WinXP's Control Panel and look for

> Quicken sounds, you won't find any listing for Quicken at all. After the

> Registry edit, you should find a heading for Quicken with several sound

> events under it. You can keep the defaults or edit the sounds to suit

> yourself.

> RC

> --

> R. C. White, CPA

> San Marcos, TX

> (Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)

> rc@grandecom.net

> Microsoft Windows MVP

> (Currently running Vista x86 build 5744 RC2)

> >I was the original user and I am the user who did the reinstall

> > I have googled and had no luck

> >

> > If I do an uninstall reinstall that should do it but I dont want to

> > John Pollard wrote:

> >>

> >> > I just had to restore my hard drive (Win XP) from a total

> >> > crash. I

> >> > restored from backup and all seems ok BUT I now have no sound

> >> > in

> >> > Quicken. The sound files are there (in a folder under

> >> > c:program

> >> > filesquickenw but they will not play.

> >> > In the Control Panel>Sound area there are no Quicken sounds

> >> > listed. I

> >> > tried adding Playsound=1 to the quicken.ini but that didn't

> >> > change

> >> > anything. I have the box checked under Quicken setup.

> >> >

> >> > Can anyone advise what I need to do? I have searched archives

> >> > but do

> >> > not see this problem. All I have seen is how to get sound if

> >> > the sound

> >> > scheme is listed in the Control Panel.

> >>

> >> Somewhere in the archives is a somewhat complex method that

> >> requires editing of the Windows registry. I'll let you Google

> >> for it.

> >>

> >> But if you installed Quicken using a different Windows user than

> >> the Windows user who is running Quicken, that might be the

> >> source of your problem. I think in most cases, you can avoid

> >> that, by modifying your non-admin user to have admin rights,

> >> installing Quicken as that user, then removing the admin rights

> >> from that user (in your case, I think you should do an uninstall

> >> first ... as the user who installed Quicken, deleting all

> >> Windows folders with Quicken in the name after the uninstall;

> >> and when you reinstall, do so to a new folder.)

> >>

> >> --

> >> John Pollard

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> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuicken]

> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenActivity Bar Item]

> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenActivity Bar

> Item.Current]

> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qabitem.wav"

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> Item.Default]

> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qabitem.wav"

> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenActivity Bar Menu]

> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenActivity Bar

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> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qabmenu.wav"

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> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qmem.wav"

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> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qrecord.wav"

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