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Edit: due to Cookie's suggestion, files removed.

If you are having this sound problem, a registry fix could be tailor made though. If you have knowledge of regedit then you could make one for yourself.

For those who ask for ME version i think the 98 sounds fix would work somebody here can try it?

Ta for posting this Time, good job

Now if someone could make em for XP an 2k an put em inhere it'll be totally awesome

Well i got the same problem tried everything re-installing msn the registry fix and still nothing , when i go to the sound settings the boxes are empty i clisk on msnchat sounds apply them but still doesnt work then i look again and the settings have gone back to nothing

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Originally posted by Time
A number of people have been having some trouble with the sounds in MSN not working and when they navigate to Control Panel -> Sounds they have the MSN Messenger set but they cannot highlight the small speaker icons nor do any files appear there.
So, here are a couple of registry fixes for XP and 98. They are fairly generic so if needed they could be changed to work for ME or 2k.

For XP:
XP sounds fix

for 98:
98 sounds fix

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I'm sorry, but DO NOT use those registry files.
* These settings are not only OS depended but also language depended.
* Furthermore, the XP-one will overwrite all your other sounds.
* The 98-one doesn't hold the right values
* Also, the paths to the soundfiles are highly depended on how you've set up MSN Messenger, Windows, your harddisks, etc...

In short, those registry files can (and will) screw up even more things...

sorry


EDIT: The problem is a bug in MSN Messenger which reset the four ".Current"-values in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\MSNMSGR to the ".Default"-values when it is started... nothing can be done by it, it is a bug in MSN Messenger.... Also note that those values are depended on where MSN Messenger is installed and on what drive and what sounds you used previously, so don't make registry-fixes as this will only screw up other peoples registry...

Even editing the ".Default"-values to the path and files that you want doesn't help...

Well, I've been doin some testing and i found a workaround. MSN sets it back to defaults like it was before startup. So what i done is i went inta msn messenger > tools > options > general tab...clicked sounds. Then i closed MSN messenger completely (also in systray) and set the sounds i wanted (in my case i wanted no contact online sound). After that started MSN messenger and it kept the settings

Ofcourse u can also set the sounds by going to start > configurationscreen > sounds....just make sure MSN messenger isnt running whilst altering the sounds

Doesn't realy work.

MSN Messenger will still reset the sound back it defaults. In doing that it changes also the soundscheme that is used. So, the changes you've made (without MSN Messenger running) is still there in your soundscheme, but MSN Messenger still resets it back and in doing so, it will use a different soundscheme...

(this is for WinXP, dunno about other OS's)

Well one way of a "workaround" would be to replace the default ones in the msn messenger folder to ur customised ones. Im not sure if that would work or if it replaces those sounds each restart because i havent tested it but i think it would work cuz it would be kinda pointless to overwright them each time but you never know.

hey guys will there be more sounds in the upgrade of msn msssenger i hope so

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Originally posted by BEWARE^^
hey guys will there be more sounds in the upgrade of msn msssenger i hope so

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Chances are very slim, I wouldn't hope for them...... What new sound would they add without making it a jukebox btw? the current sounds seems enough in my view.