WinXP Suddenly Playing Win95 Start-Up Jingle!!

[Prisoner at War]

Hey, anyone know what happened here??

After I installed MS Office97 Small Business Edition the other day, my
WinXP SP2 laptop has been booting up with the Win95 -- that's **95**
-- jingle instead of the usual WinXP one!

How did that happen???

And is this something I can customize??

Pretty cool, but it'd be even better if I could define what audio gets
played (or not at all, even!)....

Anyone know??

TIA!!

 

[Alias]

Prisoner at War wrote:
> Hey, anyone know what happened here??
>
> After I installed MS Office97 Small Business Edition the other day, my
> WinXP SP2 laptop has been booting up with the Win95 -- that's **95**
> -- jingle instead of the usual WinXP one!
>
> How did that happen???
>
> And is this something I can customize??
>
> Pretty cool, but it'd be even better if I could define what audio gets
> played (or not at all, even!)....
>
> Anyone know??
>
> TIA!!
>

Take a look at Start/Control Panel/Sounds, Speech, and Audio
Devices/Change the sound scheme.

Alias

 

[Prisoner at War]

On Apr 28, 10:51 am, Alias <iamal...@removegmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Take a look at Start/Control Panel/Sounds, Speech, and Audio
> Devices/Change the sound scheme.
>
> Alias



Kewl!! Thanks!!!

Now, any idea how the sound got changed in the first place? I wonder
why installing Office97 SBE caused the OS to do that....

 

[Alias]

Prisoner at War wrote:
> On Apr 28, 10:51 am, Alias <iamal...@removegmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Take a look at Start/Control Panel/Sounds, Speech, and Audio
>> Devices/Change the sound scheme.
>>
>> Alias
>
>
>
> Kewl!! Thanks!!!
>
> Now, any idea how the sound got changed in the first place? I wonder
> why installing Office97 SBE caused the OS to do that....
>

I suspect that the Office install did it. As you can see, you can change
it if you like.

Alias

 

[qwerty6523@gmail.com]

On Apr 28, 10:46 am, Prisoner at War <prisoner_at_...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hey, anyone know what happened here??
>
> After I installed MS Office97 Small Business Edition the other day, my
> WinXP SP2 laptop has been booting up with the Win95 -- that's **95**
> -- jingle instead of the usual WinXP one!
>
> How did that happen???
>
> And is this something I can customize??
>
> Pretty cool, but it'd be even better if I could define what audio gets
> played (or not at all, even!)....
>
> Anyone know??
>
> TIA!!

hello tia, most likely office 97 has something that makes your
operating system play the 95 startup jingle, if you uninstall office
does it switch back.
also you should consider switching to ubuntu 8.04. it is the best.

 

[peepsys]

qwerty6523@gmail.com wrote:
> On Apr 28, 10:46 am, Prisoner at War <prisoner_at_...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> Hey, anyone know what happened here??
>>
>> After I installed MS Office97 Small Business Edition the other day, my
>> WinXP SP2 laptop has been booting up with the Win95 -- that's **95**
>> -- jingle instead of the usual WinXP one!
>>
>> How did that happen???
>>
>> And is this something I can customize??
>>
>> Pretty cool, but it'd be even better if I could define what audio gets
>> played (or not at all, even!)....
>>
>> Anyone know??
>>
>> TIA!!
>
> hello tia, most likely office 97 has something that makes your
> operating system play the 95 startup jingle, if you uninstall office
> does it switch back.
> also you should consider switching to ubuntu 8.04. it is the best.

I hear that you can run Windows on Ubuntu using a VM. Have you tried
this? If so how well did it work?

 

[Auric__]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:19:32 GMT, wrote:

> On Apr 28, 10:46 am, Prisoner at War <prisoner_at_...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> Hey, anyone know what happened here??
>>
>> After I installed MS Office97 Small Business Edition the other
>> day, my WinXP SP2 laptop has been booting up with the Win95 --
>> that's **95** -- jingle instead of the usual WinXP one!
>>
>> How did that happen???
>>
>> And is this something I can customize??
>>
>> Pretty cool, but it'd be even better if I could define what audio
>> gets played (or not at all, even!)....
>>
>> Anyone know??
>>
>> TIA!!
>
> hello tia,

"TIA" means "thanks in advance". Chances are it's not the OP's name.

> most likely office 97 has something that makes your
> operating system play the 95 startup jingle, if you uninstall
> office does it switch back.

Office 97 isn't supposed to change the startup sound -- in theory.
It's never done it to me, and I still use it on some machines.

> also you should consider switching to ubuntu 8.04. it is the best.

Yeah, that's the best solution.
Problem: Startup sound has been changed.
Solution: Change to a different operating system.
Can you spot the flaw in your logic?

--
You look like why the riot started.

 

[Auric__]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:46:25 GMT, peepsys wrote:

> qwerty6523@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Apr 28, 10:46 am, Prisoner at War <prisoner_at_...@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hey, anyone know what happened here??
>>>
>>> After I installed MS Office97 Small Business Edition the other
>>> day, my WinXP SP2 laptop has been booting up with the Win95 --
>>> that's **95** -- jingle instead of the usual WinXP one!
>>>
>>> How did that happen???
>>>
>>> And is this something I can customize??
>>>
>>> Pretty cool, but it'd be even better if I could define what audio
>>> gets played (or not at all, even!)....
>>>
>>> Anyone know??
>>>
>>> TIA!!
>>
>> hello tia, most likely office 97 has something that makes your
>> operating system play the 95 startup jingle, if you uninstall
>> office does it switch back.
>> also you should consider switching to ubuntu 8.04. it is the best.
>
> I hear that you can run Windows on Ubuntu using a VM. Have you
> tried this? If so how well did it work?

Many, many people do this. It works just fine, assuming your machine
is at least moderately recent. (Older machines will run s-l-o-o-o-w.)

However, I'd use something besides Ubuntu, but that's just a "personal
preference" thing. (Slackware rocks. Use it.)

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[HeyBub]

Auric__ wrote:
>
> Yeah, that's the best solution.
> Problem: Startup sound has been changed.
> Solution: Change to a different operating system.
> Can you spot the flaw in your logic?

Ubuntu devotees are like Republicans and a tax cut: It fixes the economy,
cures cancer, and relives the pain from bee-bites. There is a difference, of
course: with tax cuts, it's true.

 

[Claudehl@aol.com]

On Apr 29, 9:26�am, "HeyBub" <hey...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ubuntu devotees are like Republicans and a tax cut: It fixes the economy,
> cures cancer, and relives the pain from bee-bites. There is a difference, of
> course: with tax cuts, it's true.

Yep, we can see that right now. LOL.