- WinXP Suddenly Playing Win95 Start-Up Jingle!!
- Posted by Prisoner at War on April 28th, 2008
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!!
- Posted by Alias on April 28th, 2008
Prisoner at War wrote:
Take a look at Start/Control Panel/Sounds, Speech, and Audio
Devices/Change the sound scheme.
Alias
- Posted by Prisoner at War on April 28th, 2008
On Apr 28, 10:51 am, Alias <iamal...@removegmail.com> wrote:
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....
- Posted by Alias on April 28th, 2008
Prisoner at War wrote:
I suspect that the Office install did it. As you can see, you can change
it if you like.
Alias
- Posted by qwerty6523@gmail.com on April 29th, 2008
On Apr 28, 10:46*am, Prisoner at War <prisoner_at_...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
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.
- Posted by peepsys on April 29th, 2008
qwerty6523@gmail.com wrote:
I hear that you can run Windows on Ubuntu using a VM. Have you tried
this? If so how well did it work?
- Posted by Auric__ on April 29th, 2008
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:19:32 GMT, wrote:
"TIA" means "thanks in advance". Chances are it's not the OP's name.
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.
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?
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You look like why the riot started.
- Posted by Auric__ on April 29th, 2008
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:46:25 GMT, peepsys wrote:
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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You may now log in to life. Password:
- Posted by HeyBub on April 29th, 2008
Auric__ 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.
- Posted by Claudehl@aol.com on April 30th, 2008
On Apr 29, 9:26�am, "HeyBub" <hey...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yep, we can see that right now. LOL.
