No alert sounds

[Mark]

Hi folks,

Something I've seen posted about before, but I haven't seen any solutions
that work.

Basically I have no event sounds for MSN Messenger 6.1.0207. I haven't had
event sounds for quite some time now, although they did work for a few
months at least.

I'm running Win XP. Curiously in OE6 and Outlook 2003 the event sounds don't
work either, so I'm sure this is linked.

Sounds are shown in Control Panel, and when tested in Control Panel they
work. All other sounds work in Window's, as far as I can tell.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Mark]

Mark wrote:
> Something I've seen posted about before, but I haven't seen any
> solutions that work.
>
> Basically I have no event sounds for MSN Messenger 6.1.0207. I
> haven't had event sounds for quite some time now, although they did
> work for a few months at least.
>
> I'm running Win XP. Curiously in OE6 and Outlook 2003 the event
> sounds don't work either, so I'm sure this is linked.
>
> Sounds are shown in Control Panel, and when tested in Control Panel
> they work. All other sounds work in Window's, as far as I can tell.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks

And FWIW, a new user account on the same version of Window's works
correctly. It's just this existing user account.

I'm loathed to have to migrate all the data across to a new account...

[Zyxak]

On 19/01/04 07:36, Mark uttered the following...

>Mark wrote:
>
>
>>Something I've seen posted about before, but I haven't seen any
>>solutions that work.
>>
>>Basically I have no event sounds for MSN Messenger 6.1.0207. I
>>haven't had event sounds for quite some time now, although they did
>>work for a few months at least.
>>
>>I'm running Win XP. Curiously in OE6 and Outlook 2003 the event
>>sounds don't work either, so I'm sure this is linked.
>>
>>Sounds are shown in Control Panel, and when tested in Control Panel
>>they work. All other sounds work in Window's, as far as I can tell.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>
>
>And FWIW, a new user account on the same version of Window's works
>correctly. It's just this existing user account.
>
>I'm loathed to have to migrate all the data across to a new account...
>
>
>
I've been having the same problem for a while too. And then the other
day I nearly jumped when a friend sent me a message and Messenger made a
noise! It continued to work until (as I suspected) I rebooted and it
hasn't worked again since.

It's very frustrating - if I'm not in front of the screen I have no idea
if someone is trying to contact me. Sort of defeats the whole purpose I
think.

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[Mark]

Zyxak wrote:
> I've been having the same problem for a while too. And then the other
> day I nearly jumped when a friend sent me a message and Messenger
> made a noise! It continued to work until (as I suspected) I rebooted
> and it hasn't worked again since.
>
> It's very frustrating - if I'm not in front of the screen I have no
> idea if someone is trying to contact me. Sort of defeats the whole
> purpose I think.

Agreed that it's frustrating. There's obviously some bug in Window's, or
something caused by some other software.

I've migrated all my settings across to another account now to solve the
problem.


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[Mark]

Dawny wrote:
> I too have experienced this problem too and are finding it very
> annoying. What new account did you set up? A new MSN Messenger
> account? I tried this and it keeps bringing up all my old settings
> and I STILL have no sound. What am I doing wrong?

I had to create a new user account.