Windows 10 sound recorder - where is it?

Blake Snyder wrote:

There is no voice recorder in any menu.

I hereby call for alt.comp.os.windows-10.i-use-a-non-standard-shell

On 12/11/2017 4:18 AM, Mad Roger wrote:
On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 21:56:31 +0000,
Good Guy wrote:

Have you got Cortana or some search box on your taskbar? Why don't you
use it? What's wrong with you.

Just type "Recorder" in it and see what turns out.

There is no Cortana.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5377886Clipboard01.jpg

I didn't set this PC up, it was given to me, but it *never* had a search
and that's OK because I never needed it before. I've been using this
computer for about two years now and never needed to use Search which isn't
on the menu anyway.

I just want to know if someone, anyone, simply knows where the voice
recorder *executable* lies.

Not a non-existent link to it.
Not a non-existent search for it.
The actual executable.

It's "C:\Program
Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder_1 0.1710.2861.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SoundRec.exe",
but it's not a stand-alone executable. Even worse, the "WindowsApp"
folder is hidder by default and it's permissions are assigned to the
system.
Try pressing the Windows and "S" keys simultaneously, typing in "Voice
Recorder" and pressing "Enter".

Ben

On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:19:30 -0500,
Ben Myers wrote:

It's "C:\Program
Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder_1 0.1710.2861.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SoundRec.exe",
but it's not a stand-alone executable. Even worse, the "WindowsApp"
folder is hidder by default and it's permissions are assigned to the
system.
Try pressing the Windows and "S" keys simultaneously, typing in "Voice
Recorder" and pressing "Enter".

Thanks Ben.
The directory is closed to me for whatever reason.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=7163890programfilesapp.jpg=
(What's so secret about WindowsApps?)

When I close all active windows and put the cursor on the desktop, and then
press simultaneously "Windows + S", nothing happens. The cursor blinks for
a second showing the hourglass momentarily, but that's it.

I think I'll just give up as it really shouldn't be this hard to run a
simple sound recorder in Windows 10 especially when all we used to do was:
Start Run soundrec (or was it sndrec?)

On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:23:40 +1100,
Monty wrote:

It's not in any menu and it isn't going to be found with a non-existent
search since they're all non existent.

I found it by using a search box which says:
(search programs and files).

There is no such search thing on this computer.
I didn't set it up. There is no "Cortana" search anywhere.
Even so, if we have to search, then we failed already.
The need to search is a prime example of a broken system.

Anyway, is there a way to manually run a Cortana search when it's disabled?
Ah. I just thought of a way.

Start Run cmd
dir /s/b c:\* c:\Users\mr\search.txt

I don't know what it will do in "protected" directories (see below).

I found four copies of the executable. Here is a picture of one of
the locations: https://imgur.com/a/EMOae

That directory is "protected" it seems.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=7163890programfilesapp.jpg

"You have been denied permission to access this folder"
C:\Program Files\Windows Apps\

What's so secret about Windows Apps?

Mad Roger wrote:

http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5377886Clipboard01.jpg

It looks like on your alternative start menu, there is a choice for
"Start menu (Windows)" which I presume takes you to the real windows
start menu, or start screen, from there what happens if you type "voice"?

On 12/11/2017 5:39 PM, Mad Roger wrote:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:19:30 -0500,
Ben Myers wrote:

It's "C:\Program
Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder_1 0.1710.2861.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SoundRec.exe",
but it's not a stand-alone executable. Even worse, the "WindowsApp"
folder is hidder by default and it's permissions are assigned to the
system.
Try pressing the Windows and "S" keys simultaneously, typing in "Voice
Recorder" and pressing "Enter".

Thanks Ben.
The directory is closed to me for whatever reason.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=7163890programfilesapp.jpg=
(What's so secret about WindowsApps?)

When I close all active windows and put the cursor on the desktop, and then
press simultaneously "Windows + S", nothing happens. The cursor blinks for
a second showing the hourglass momentarily, but that's it.

I think I'll just give up as it really shouldn't be this hard to run a
simple sound recorder in Windows 10 especially when all we used to do was:
Start Run soundrec (or was it sndrec?)

Try pasting this into the "Run" box.

shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder_8w ekyb3d8bbwe!App

Ben

On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:36:55 -0500,
Ben Myers wrote:

Try pasting this into the "Run" box.

shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder_8w ekyb3d8bbwe!App

Thanks for trying to help as I appreciate it.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=1077717shellapps.jpg

I cut and pasted exactly
shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder_8w ekyb3d8bbwe!App

Windows cannot find
'shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder_8 wekyb3d8bbwe!App'.
Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. [OK]

On 12/12/2017 01:47, Mad Roger wrote:
Windows cannot find
'shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder_8 wekyb3d8bbwe!App'.
Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. [OK]

I am not surprised. You have gone to great lengths to hide your
Identity by using different nyms - Lionel Muller, Roy Tremblay, Blake
Snyder, Mad Rogers, Claire Snyder, Karen Blake, Anonymous, Mother
****er, Roger Blake, etc etc. Now even your computer can't find
you!!!!!!!!!!. are you really surprised.

I understand even the authorities are having trouble tracking your
movements, Your open VPN seems to be doing a very good job.

I know the solution but I am not going to be an accessory to facilitate
your activities of abusing young boys and girls. You do whatever is
suitable for you and let the authorities find you. Nutters here are
going to help you hide your Id but that is there problem. They are drug
dealers themselves so they need you.


--
With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer
satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.

On 12/11/2017 8:47 PM, Mad Roger wrote:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:36:55 -0500,
Ben Myers wrote:

Try pasting this into the "Run" box.

shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder_8w ekyb3d8bbwe!App

Thanks for trying to help as I appreciate it.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=1077717shellapps.jpg

I cut and pasted exactly
shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder_8w ekyb3d8bbwe!App

Windows cannot find
'shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder_8 wekyb3d8bbwe!App'.
Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. [OK]

Here's another one for the "Run" box. Be sure to include the colon at
the end.

ms-callrecording:

Incidentally, all these procedures work fine on my Windows 10 computer.
Also, I copied "sndrec32.exe" from my Windows XP machine and it works on
Windows 10, although I did get an error about not being able to update
the registry.

Ben

On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:57:00 -0500,
Ben Myers wrote:

Here's another one for the "Run" box. Be sure to include the colon at
the end.

ms-callrecording:

Incidentally, all these procedures work fine on my Windows 10 computer.
Also, I copied "sndrec32.exe" from my Windows XP machine and it works on
Windows 10, although I did get an error about not being able to update
the registry.

That was an interesting test because it partly worked.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=3512849callrecording.jpg

Start Run ms-callrecording:
It complains that
"You'll need a new app to open this ms-callrecording"
Where the "OK" button is grayed out and therefore unusable.

Maybe you have to be administrator to use the voice recorder?

On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:44:14 +0000,
Andy Burns wrote:

It looks like on your alternative start menu, there is a choice for
"Start menu (Windows)" which I presume takes you to the real windows
start menu, or start screen, from there what happens if you type "voice"?

For whatever reason, the Start Menu (Windows) does nothing.
There's not even something to screenshot to show you.

Maybe the voice recorder just doesn't work in Classic Menu?

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 01:56:51 +0000,
Good Guy wrote:

abusing young boys and girls

You are a sick man.

It was Tue, 12 Dec 2017 04:22:32 +0000, when Mad Roger wrote:

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 01:56:51 +0000,
Good Guy wrote:

abusing young boys and girls

You are a sick man.

Good Guy is a troll who has never used Linux, but doesn't like it.
You posted with Linux! So he doesn't like you.

Mad Roger wrote:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:44:14 +0000,
Andy Burns wrote:

It looks like on your alternative start menu, there is a choice for
"Start menu (Windows)" which I presume takes you to the real windows
start menu, or start screen, from there what happens if you type "voice"?

For whatever reason, the Start Menu (Windows) does nothing.
There's not even something to screenshot to show you.

Maybe the voice recorder just doesn't work in Classic Menu?

Well, the evidence is, it's an App... so good luck with that.

You'd be better off hijacking sndrec.exe from some other
OS and bringing it in.

Of course, real people on a schedule have already downloaded
Audacity, and they're done and gone for dinner. This avoids
the peculiar flare Microsoft has for Sound Recorders, so you
don't have to worry about resources quite as much.

http://www.audacityteam.org/

I sometimes use Audacity for archiving voice mail off my little
telephone answering machine (and no, the TAM doesn't have 1/8"
jacks or anything, so you have to do it the hard way).

Paul

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:58:59 -0500,
Paul wrote:

Of course, real people on a schedule have already downloaded
Audacity, and they're done and gone for dinner. This avoids
the peculiar flare Microsoft has for Sound Recorders, so you
don't have to worry about resources quite as much.

http://www.audacityteam.org/

I sometimes use Audacity for archiving voice mail off my little
telephone answering machine (and no, the TAM doesn't have 1/8"
jacks or anything, so you have to do it the hard way).

I will use Audacity. I already had it in my archives.
I just have to install it and figure out how to get it to record.
That should be easy though.

So I'll give up on the voice recorder and go with Audacity.
thanks!