Windows 10: Enable or Disable Changing Event Sounds and Sound Scheme in Windows

How to: Enable or Disable Changing Event Sounds and Sound Scheme in Windows

How to Enable or Disable Changing Event Sounds and Sound Scheme in Windows


A sound theme is a set of sounds applied to events in Windows and apps.

You can have Windows play a sound when certain events occur on your PC. (An event can be an action that you perform, such as empting the Recycle Bin, or an action that Windows performs, such as notifying you when you receive new e‑mail.) Windows comes with several sound schemes (a collection of related sounds) for common events. Additionally, some desktop themes have their own sound schemes. You can also save changes you made to your sound theme as a new sound scheme.

If you like, you can prevent users on the PC from being able to add, remove, or change the system sound scheme and event sounds. When disabled, the Sounds tab will be removed from the Sound Control Panel.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable changing event sounds and sound scheme for specific or all users in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.

*Warning You must be signed in as an administrator to enable or disable changing event sounds and sound scheme.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Enable or Disable Changing Event Sounds and Sound Scheme in Local Group Policy Editor
• Option Two: Enable or Disable Changing Event Sounds and Sound Scheme for All Users using a REG file

EXAMPLE: Changing Event Sounds and Sound Scheme enabled and disabled










OPTION ONE [/i] Enable or Disable Changing Event Sounds and Sound Scheme in Local Group Policy Editor

*note In Windows 7, the Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions.

In Windows 8, the Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Pro and Enterprise editions.

In Windows 10, the Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions.

All editions can use Option Two.
1. Open the all users except administrators Local Group Policy Editor for how you want this policy applied.

2. In the left pane of the Local Group Policy Editor, click/tap on to expand User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Control Panel, and Personalization. (See screenshot below)



3. In the right pane of Personalization, double click/tap on the Prevent changing sounds policy to edit it. (see screenshot above)

4. Do step 5 (enable) or step 6 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


5. To Enable Changing Event Sounds and Sound Scheme
A) Select (dot) either Not Configured or Disabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

*note Not Configured is the default setting.

6. To Disable Changing Event Sounds and Sound Scheme
A) Select (dot) Enabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)




7. When finished, you can close Local Group Policy Editor if you like.





OPTION TWO [/i] Enable or Disable Changing Event Sounds and Sound Scheme for All Users using a REG file

*note The downloadable .reg files below will add and modify the DWORD value in the registry keys below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization

NoChangingSoundScheme DWORD

(delete) = Enable
1 = Disable

1. Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Enable Changing Event Sounds and Sound Scheme for All Users
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_changing_event_sounds_and_sound_scheme.reg

Download

3. To Disable Changing Event Sounds and Sound Scheme for All Users
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Disable_changing_event_sounds_and_sound_scheme.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. You could now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


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Sound Schemes

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I would like to inform you that when you when you download any anything from the internet it be stored in the download folder.

I suggest you to follow the steps and check if it helps:

• 
  Press Windows+X key on the keyboard and hit
  Enter.
  
• 
  Click on Control panel and select
  Sound.
  
• 
  Click on Sound Tab.
  
• 
  Under Sound Scheme select
  No Sound.
  
• 
  Under the program event window select the program for which you want to change the sound scheme.
  
• 
  Then click on browse and in the left pane select
  downloads.
  

Hope this helps in resolving the issue. If issue persists, do get back to us. We will be happy to assist you.

Thanks.

 

Change Event Sounds and Sound Scheme in Windows 10


Hey Shawn,
I thought it may be a neat idea to 're-visit' some of the special theme sounds from W7.
The .wav files can be obtained from numerous sites on the web, use discretion.
Then fill up these folders in this location:





then you can 'Browse' for sounds when creating your sound scheme.
Just FYI.

 

Change Event Sounds and Sound Scheme in Windows 10


In both my Win 10's I have a choice of sound schemes listed in Media folder due to the fact that both were upgrades from lower OS's, but in Sounds I only have the choice of No Sounds or Default Sounds. Weird

This really doesn't matter but I'm asking because I see all the schemes are there in Media folder, just not displaying in the sounds window.

Is there a way to fix that?

 

Sound Schemes

This does not answer the question, which is about changing the entire sound scheme at once, not changing specific sounds for specific events.

 

Cannot see all Advanced Sound Settings - Windows 10

Hi Steve,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

Appreciate your interest in using Windows 10.

I would like to suggest you to follow the steps below to add sound schemes to the list:

• Open Advanced Sound Settings.
• Select any event option under “Program Events” and click on “Browse”.
• Select the sound scheme from the saved path and click on “Open”.
• Click on “Save As” and provide a name for the scheme and click on “OK”.
• Click on “Apply” and then “OK” to save the changes.

After adding the sound schemes to the list, select the required sound scheme and click on “OK”.

Hope the information is helpful. Feel free to write us back for any further assistance with Windows, we’ll be glad to assist you.