Quicken sounds in Windows XP/2000/NT
Burke Mamlin
machine running Windows XP/NT/2000? I may have some help for you.
I'm using WinXP Professional and realized that my Quicken 2001 sounds
were no longer working.
A quick-fix for this may have been previouly posted. If so, I
apologize for the redundancy. I found hints and talk of registry
values, but didn't see a complete solution. Here's what I
learned...hope it can help somebody.
THE PROBLEM
Quicken stores its sounds settings within the current user's registry
settings. This means that only the user who installed Quicken gets to
enjoy the sounds. In WinXP/NT/2000 with multiple users, you should be
able to switch to one of the user accounts and hear the sounds (i.e.,
the account under which Quicken was installed). If you don't have
multiple user accounts or can't get sounds under any user, this fix
may not work for you.
THE SOLUTION
This requires some (minimal) Windows registry changes...so, proceed
cautiously, and don't come after me if you mess up your system in the
process (find a geek to help you!). It's actually fairly simple,
though.
1. Log in as the user who installed Quicken (the one with working
sounds).
2. Run Regedit (Start->Run->type "regedit" and press return).
3. Navigate within the tree on the left to
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken].
4. Right-click on "Quicken" and select the "Export" option. Save the
registry export as "quickensounds.reg" and put it somewhere (e.g.,
shared folder) where other users can get to it.
5. Log in as the other user(s) and double-click the quickensounds.reg
file to enable quicken sounds. You're done.
Alternatively, I'll include the .reg file contents that I created
using the steps above. Again, making mistakes with registry entries
can really mess up your computer, so -- if you don't know what you're
doing -- make backups and proceed with caution! Also, I don't know
that my registry settings for WinXP Professional and Quicken 2001
Deluxe will apply to your system...so the five steps above are safer.
If your Quicken is installed under "C:\Program Files\Quicken", you can
try copying the text between the dashed lines into a file called
quickensounds.reg
and then double-click the file to load your registry with the
necessary Quicken sound links (the five steps above are safer and more
likely to keep you out of trouble)
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Activity Bar Item]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Activity Bar
Item\.Current]
@="c:\\program files\\quicken\\sounds\\qabitem.wav"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Activity Bar
Item\.Default]
@="c:\\program files\\quicken\\sounds\\qabitem.wav"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Activity Bar Menu]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Activity Bar
Menu\.Current]
@="c:\\program files\\quicken\\sounds\\qabmenu.wav"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Activity Bar
Menu\.Default]
@="c:\\program files\\quicken\\sounds\\qabmenu.wav"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Click]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Click\.Current]
@="c:\\program files\\quicken\\sounds\\qclick.wav"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Click\.Default]
@="c:\\program files\\quicken\\sounds\\qclick.wav"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Delete]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Delete\.Current]
@="c:\\program files\\quicken\\sounds\\qdelete.wav"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Delete\.Default]
@="c:\\program files\\quicken\\sounds\\qdelete.wav"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Memorize]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Memorize\.Current]
@="c:\\program files\\quicken\\sounds\\qmem.wav"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Memorize\.Default]
@="c:\\program files\\quicken\\sounds\\qmem.wav"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Open Program]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Open
Program\.Current]
@="c:\\program files\\quicken\\sounds\\qopen.wav"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Open
Program\.Default]
@="c:\\program files\\quicken\\sounds\\qopen.wav"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Record]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Record\.Current]
@="c:\\program files\\quicken\\sounds\\qrecord.wav"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Quicken\Record\.Default]
@="c:\\program files\\quicken\\sounds\\qrecord.wav"
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I hope a few people out there wishing that Quicken still was making
its sounds will find this post useful.
-Burke
R. C. White
Using your Registry text sample, I was able to get my Quicken sounds
working. I'm using Q2002 Deluxe in WinXP Pro. I had to modify your file a
little, to change the path to MY Quicken folder. I copied your file into
Notepad, then Replaced all the instances of "c:\\program files\\quicken" to
"E:\\QuickenW" (without quotes in both places). Then I imported this into
the HKCU\App Events\Schemes\Apps key (AFTER Exporting this key to a file for
safekeeping, just in case, of course!). This was enough to bring back most
of my Quicken sounds.
A few sounds did not work, though. The Open Program sound, for instance,
was silent. So, I opened WinXP's Control Panel | Sound and Audio Devices |
Sounds page. Quicken is now in that listing; it was not there before. The
Open Program sound was set to qopen.wav, as expected, but the Test button
produced no sound. I changed it to qopen_2000.wav and got the once-familiar
sound from previous editions. Then I changed it to qopen_chimes.wav, just
for fun.
I may make some other changes, too, but the key was to get the Quicken
category into the Sounds listing on WinXP's Control Panel | Sound and Audio
Devices. Once the Quicken group is there, with the sound events listed
under it, we can use that page to play with the sounds until we are happy
with them.
Thanks again for the pointers and the Registry sample.
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
(Retired - no longer licensed to practice)
San Marcos, TX
r...@corridor.net
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