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More info?)
i have sent emails to microsoft helped desk and they have tried to tell other
things to get the sounds and alerts to wotk, unfortunatley it still doesnt
work, but when my daughter uses the messenger, she gets sounds.. go figure
"ssol" wrote:
>
> Hi John,
> as clear and concise as your instructions were my result was a negative
> one. My msn is still not working and I followed your instructions to the
> T. Can you please help, what am i doing wrong.
>
> thanks sol
>
> John Wrote:
> > "Mr. Monge" wrote:
> > -
> > i have tried unistalling and reinstalling everyhing back but no luck
> > fixing
> > the audio for msn 7... i upgraded a couple of days ago, my last
> > messenger was
> > working just fine, i could here the new mail sound or when someone
> > got
> > connnected or msg me and etc, i dont why this is happening when i
> > havent
> > change any settings or anything.
> >
> > could some help me here, maybe this is fixable by a patch or
> > something!-
> >
> > Well, I had the same problem and when I looked into 'Alerts and
> > Sounds'
> > category in Options, I saw only two events listed under MSN Messenger.
> > So I
> > did a little registry hack which solved the no sound problem. I will
> > describe
> > the operation but, if you are willing to follow, keep in mind that the
> > registry is sensitive so take a restore point first and then go ahead
> > with
> > those instructions:
> >
> > 1. Open the registry by typing 'regedit.exe' into the Run command.
> > 2. Navigate to the key with the name HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Open it by
> > clicking
> > it's plus sign to the left.
> > 3.Open the subkey with the name AppEvents (should be the very first)
> > by
> > clicking the plus sign to its left. You will notice other subkeys under
> > that
> > one with the first having the name Event Labels.
> > 4. Openthe 'EventLabels' subkey by clicking the plus sign to its left.
> > What
> > you get under that is a list of all the events that can be associated
> > with
> > the a sound. I mean all, both windows events and Microsoft's apps that
> > reside
> > in your pc. Among those the ones that you need is those associated
> > exclusively with MSN Messenger.
> > 5. Those events are easily pinpointed by their key's name. It starts
> > with
> > MSNMSGR_. Be accurate! Not the MSMsgs_ keys (those are related with
> > windows
> > messenger but the MSNMSGR_ keys). Those are all the events that are
> > associated with MSN messenger by default. Write down their names. You
> > don't
> > need to open them and get confused by their data. Just write their
> > names down
> > in a piece of paper.
> > 6. Click the minus sign to the left of the EventLabels parent key
> > above.
> > Underneath that key is another key with the name 'Schemes'. Open it by
> > clicking the plus sign to its left. With the same manner open the
> > subkey
> > called 'Apps' beneath. Do you notice a subkey with the name MSNMSGR?
> > Again
> > not the MSMSGS key (this is for windows messenger) but the MSNMSGR key.
> > Open
> > it! Underneath you might have some others. (In my case there were only
> > two).
> > 7. Right click the afferomentioned MSNMSGR key (not one of the subkeys
> > under
> > it) and select new - key. A new subkey will be created. Give that key a
> > name
> > of those you took down in step 5 above. Repeat this process - creating
> > and
> > naming subkeys - for each name you have taken down.
> > 8. Close the registry and go back to the MSN Messenger. Go to Options,
> > Alerts and Sounds. Click Sounds.. and navigate to MSN Messenger. You
> > should
> > be able by now to associate each listed event with the propper sound.
> > The MSN
> > sounds files are under Program Files/MSN Messenger.
> >
> > Sounds complicated but it is not. If you want contact me and I can send
> > you
> > the reristy fix for this (I am using XP Home edition English SP2).
> >
> > I hope I helped you.
> >
> > Regards
> > John
>
>
> --
> ssol
>
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