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Posted by R. C. White on November 7, 2006, 9:26 pm
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Hi, Mark.
I'm glad it worked. Thanks for the report back. ;<)
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 x86 build 5744 RC2)
> 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
>>
>> >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
>>
>> ------=_NextPart_000_03D8_01C7028F.31439500
>> Content-Type: text/plain
>> Content-Disposition: inline;
>> filename="QSounds.txt"
>> X-Google-AttachSize: 2061
>>
>> 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"
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenActivity Bar
>> Item.Default]
>> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qabitem.wav"
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenActivity Bar Menu]
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenActivity Bar
>> Menu.Current]
>> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qabmenu.wav"
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenActivity Bar
>> Menu.Default]
>> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qabmenu.wav"
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenClick]
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenClick.Current]
>> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qclick.wav"
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenClick.Default]
>> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qclick.wav"
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenDelete]
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenDelete.Current]
>> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qdelete.wav"
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenDelete.Default]
>> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qdelete.wav"
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenMemorize]
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenMemorize.Current]
>> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qmem.wav"
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenMemorize.Default]
>> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qmem.wav"
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenOpen Program]
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenOpen
>> Program.Current]
>> @="E:\quickenw\sounds\qopen.wav"
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenOpen
>> Program.Default]
>> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qopen.wav"
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenRecord]
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenRecord.Current]
>> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qrecord.wav"
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsQuickenRecord.Default]
>> @="E:\QuickenW\sounds\qrecord.wav"
>> ------=_NextPart_000_03D8_01C7028F.31439500--
>
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