Removing Sounds on Startup

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I have shut off all Windows sounds so I do not have to adjust my volume as
often when switching to music listening. My problem is I have a logon sound
that still plays when I log on to Windows XP Pro. I believe it is a sound
from Windows 98SE that was carried over during the upgrade process. Does
anyone have any ideas about how I can edit out this sound from my system.
What file or directory would it be in? What "ini" file might be responsible?
I may be looking at this the wrong way and would appreciate any assistance
you could offer.

Tim

www.tocon002.com
 
I have shut off all Windows sounds so I do not have to adjust my volume as
often when switching to music listening. My problem is I have a logon sound
that still plays when I log on to Windows XP Pro. I believe it is a sound
from Windows 98SE that was carried over during the upgrade process. Does
anyone have any ideas about how I can edit out this sound from my system.
What file or directory would it be in? What "ini" file might be responsible?
I may be looking at this the wrong way and would appreciate any assistance
you could offer.

Tim

www.tocon002.com
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If you turned off the startup sound for Windows in Control Panel, the sound
is coming from something else. Your post brings to mind the Creative mixer
that plays the crashing thunder at startup. If you have something like this
installed, open that program and check its settings.
 
Sharon F:

Thank you very much. You were exactly correct.! Creative EAX has been
loading on startup for long on my computer that I thought it was part of
Windows. I unchecked the "Load on Startup" box and now I can turn my
speakers up and use the slider in whichever media player I happen to be
using at the time. Problem solved. Thanks again,

Tim
 
Thank you very much. You were exactly correct.! Creative EAX has been
loading on startup for long on my computer that I thought it was part of
Windows. I unchecked the "Load on Startup" box and now I can turn my
speakers up and use the slider in whichever media player I happen to be
using at the time. Problem solved. Thanks again,
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You're most welcome, Tim. Thanks for the feedback to letting us know that
you have this fixed now.
 
Actually unchecking the "Load on Startup" for Creative's EAX wasn't the best
fix. I would have had to do it at the end of every session. I finally just
cut the files demo32.exe and EAX.AVI to a backup file and that is a lasting
fix. I searched win.ini, boot.ini, system.ini, logon.ini, sbwin.ini and the
registry using regedit but never did find a reference to the files.
Interestingly I get no error messages like, "could not find file so and so".
Hmmmm. Now it does what I wanted but I somehow lack satisfaction because I
am curious what routine was running it in the first place and why it doesn't
care that it's not now. The technician in me is pleased but the engineer in
me is still curious. Well, on to bigger and better problems like getting
Money 2004 to download my bank files like it did before i installed Windows
XP Service Pack 2 and figuring out how to use Dreamweaver.
Tim
 
Actually unchecking the "Load on Startup" for Creative's EAX wasn't the best
fix. I would have had to do it at the end of every session. I finally just
cut the files demo32.exe and EAX.AVI to a backup file and that is a lasting
fix. I searched win.ini, boot.ini, system.ini, logon.ini, sbwin.ini and the
registry using regedit but never did find a reference to the files.
Interestingly I get no error messages like, "could not find file so and so".
Hmmmm. Now it does what I wanted but I somehow lack satisfaction because I
am curious what routine was running it in the first place and why it doesn't
care that it's not now. The technician in me is pleased but the engineer in
me is still curious. Well, on to bigger and better problems like getting
Money 2004 to download my bank files like it did before i installed Windows
XP Service Pack 2 and figuring out how to use Dreamweaver.
Tim
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It's been a while since I've used the EAX software (no longer have the
sound card installed that uses it). IIRC, I disabled this within the menus
of the EAX/Creative mixer. Don't remember if it was a matter of changing
the startup sound to "none" or disabling "play sound at startup" but do
remember that it was a setting that could be adjusted. I'm sorry that my
memory isn't more exact about this.
 
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