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Possible sound 'permissions' problem?
This one has me foxed.
Recently did a fresh install of W7 pro 64 on a new Dell desktop, and all went well.
After installing a number of updates over a period of time I noticed that I'd lost my system beep...specifically the caps lock warning.
I also noticed I'd lost a number of 'incidental' app sounds...such as an audible warning to accompany a 'delete this file?' message. All the other sounds seem fine (at least the ones I'm aware of). All the sounds work in the Control Panel sound applet.
And then last month I downloaded and installed a batch of Windows security updates, rebooted - and lo and behold, all the incidental sounds came back...until I rebooted again.
Did exactly the same thing this morning - downloaded the updates, rebooted and got my sounds back until I rebooted again.
I then found that Photoshop (CS3) was throwing up an error when saving files, telling me the files were locked. I'd been running it in admin mode, but found it worked in standard mode (and didn't throw up a UAC warning)....and when it switched it back to admin mode it saved the files just fine. It continued to save them just fine when I switched it back to standard mode.
This has got me thinking that the sound and the Photoshop issues are related in some way, specifically to permissions...but above and beyond that it's way out of my usual 'tweak the registry' comfort zone.
Anyone got any ideas, pointers, words of comfort?
Cheers,
Steve