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Old January 18th 04, 02:41 PM
Mark
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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


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Old January 18th 04, 09:42 PM
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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...


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Old January 30th 04, 05:24 AM
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Default No alert sounds

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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Old January 30th 04, 10:42 AM
Mark
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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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Old February 18th 04, 12:45 AM
Mark
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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.


 




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