Re: Google Play Windows 7
Florene Franca
You can install Ubuntu along side Windows and boot into either one when you turn on your computer. But that is beside the point. (You will probably NOT want to replace Windows if this is your first time installing Ubuntu.). Just select 'Install Ubuntu alongside Windows X' in the installer.
You can run Windows steam games on Linux through WINE. Though it will be a huge amount easier just running Linux Steam games on Ubuntu, it IS possible to run some of the windows games (though it may be slower). I think there are instructions here: _under_Linux#Step_2:_installing_steam.
I know this is an old question, but it is worth revisiting due to new features from Valve. As of August 21, 2018, the Beta version of the Steam Client for Linux extends Steam Play to support trying to run Windows games on Linux via their own special version of Wine called Proton. See:
Currently, only whitelisted games will run by default, and you do need a beta version. To get the beta version, enable it in the Steam client. Click on "Steam" button on the left corner of your Steam client window. With the Account pane selected, find the item "Beta participation" and click the "Change" button. In the new dialog, select "Beta participation" to "Steam Beta Update". Click "OK", then restart Steam. WARNING: It is possible that various things could be broken because of being in the beta, but so far that hasn't happened to me, and I enabled it a fairly long time ago. Once the beta version is running, there is a settings option "Enable Steam Play for all titles." Now you can try any Windows game and find out if it is one that works or not. Third party reports on what or doesn't work appear to be being collected here:
As far as I know none of the triple-A games of publishers like EA have been ported yet. It is not in Valves power to port these games since they don't belong to them.
The only thing Valve can do is trying to put some pressure on the publishers.
You can expect however to be able to play all of Valves own games within reasonable time.
So far Counter Strike, CS:Condition Zero, CS:Source, Half-Life 2, HL2: Lost Coast, Left 4 Dead 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2 are available.
If you are dual-booting your machine, it is possible to symlink your steamapps folder from linux to the windows location. This will allow you to maintain only one copy of the game downloads. Example (stop steam first):
If you symlink your steamapps folder, make sure you have your windows drive mounted before launching steam or it will fail to login and present a network related error message. If you use 64-bit windows, the program files directory will need an (x86) suffix.
from steam (not on playon, the normal steam) try to go on the right side of the game picture --> click "Properties" --> accessibility --> force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool --> Protoss
I want to play an windows error sound in my c# application when the user isnt allowed to enter more characters into a text box.Is there a .net framework api or have i to play it from wave files and if, how do i do this?
Problem: iTunes will not play music or music videos on my PC. It will not play from the Apple store or library. Slider and timer does not work. Press play button and it indicates that the song should be playing and will show it paused when pressed again even though nothing has played.
I've been fighting with this problem for a while and have had no luck. While iTunes will not play on my PC, there is no problems with it playing on my iPhone. There are no problems syncing my phone and PC.
Use Edit > Preferences > Playback and look at the entry for Play Audio Using. This will normally be set to either Direct Sound or Windows Audio Session. Changing to the other setting may help. If not set back and try once more. If neither setting works see the second box in Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates. I suggest a direct download from Apple over the Microsoft Store version.
Problem is solved as of 14 October. Seems the problem wasn't with my PC. I had an update from Apple that came in today and that fixed my issue. NOTHING I tried with my laptop had any effect in correcting the problem until this update popped up. Can't help but wonder how many others have had this problem and frustration. Anyway, thanks to those who responded and offered ideas on solutions.
I had the same problem, until I realised that Symantec Endpoint Protection, running on my laptop (controlled my employer), was killing all iTunes attempts to use IPv6. I could not change SEP's configuration, but realised that I could turn off IPv6 following the instructions at @JockDaRock/disabling-ipv6-on-network-adapter-windows-10-5fad 010bca75 , and now iTunes is working again.
Thanks for the response. I tried the suggested fix you supplied with no result. Issue is still the same. One needs to keep in mind, my laptop will not play ANY iTunes music, neither from my phone nor from any files currently from my account. All updates have been successfully installed on both devices. Audio plays fine for all other applications. There is one thing you mentioned in your response and that is the comment about having Endpoint. I did, at some time back, install this on my laptop thinking it would provide a more advanced system of protection for my PC. It was more of a pain than anything else and has since been uninstalled. iTunes hasn't played in some time and I can't say for sure when it stopped nor can I say it stopped when dealing with Endpoint. I do remember reading something somewhere that stated Endpoint cannot be fully uninstalled without going into the registry and deleting it manually there. It was a very in depth process and I never attempted it. I never felt it was necessary but I certainly may be wrong.
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A beep can be easily accomplished in the normal command line with echo ^G (where ^G represents BEL, ASCII character 7, inserted with Ctrl + G), as described in other answers. In the interest of completeness, here's the PowerShell method:
Yes, it's the same as the cmd one. echo in PowerShell is an alias (i.e. means the same thing) to Write-Host, which displays something to the screen (or triggers the Windows notification sound in the case of BEL).
` is PowerShell's escape character, which modifies the meaning of the character after it. An escaped a indicates BEL. The advantage of this approach is it is easier and more visible when typed into a script.
The main addition to the previous comment is --qt-start-minimized The paths and quote characters are just to illustrate a typical use. I've used this unchanged in XP, 7, 10; I expect Vista and 8.x to work too.
A very lightweight solution is cmndPlayWAV.jar which also works on Linux and OS/X. It has a built in sound if no parameter is specified or you can give the full path to a .wav file. Incidentally one could always make an audio message .wav to use with Windows Recorder.
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