Windows 10: The clock app's alarm and timer no longer make a sound, just send a notification. Same is...

My Windows specs:Edition Windows 11 HomeVersion 23H2Installed on ‎6/‎21/‎2023OS build 22631.4541Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22700.1055.0If you can help me turn the sound notifications back on for the clock alarm and timer and the snipping tool, I will be very grateful. Thank you so much for your time and assistance.

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Timer notifications no longer working


Hi everyone.

I've been using the timer function of the default "Alarms & Clock" app almost every day since I switched to Windows 10. Today it stopped working.

When the timer hits 0:00 the notification in the lower right corner won't pop up and the alarm sound won't play... until I open the start menu. For example if I set a timer for 10 minutes, nothing will happen at 0:00. Only if and when I open the start menu or hit the Windows key after those 10 minutes, then the timer will go off.

I really like this app and want to keep using it to track my shifts at work. Any suggestions? Any ideas what it has to do with the start menu?

PS. Notifications for the app are set to on in the settings.

Thanks.

 

How to disable the alarm sound in the default Windows 10 timer app

This question is about the Windows 10 default Alarm & Clock app. I'm currently trying to set up a timer so that (for example) after 10 minutes, I get a notification saying something like "time's up".

Unfortunately, while I get a notification, the app accompanies the notification with an obnoxious beeping alarm sound. In addition, the volume of the music I am playing through Firefox decreases when this alarm plays, and increases afterwards. I would like to turn off the sound. Here's what I've tried:

1. I've tried turning off the sound for that specific app (I'm playing music, so I can't turn the sound off completely), using the app titled "volume mixer". Unfortunately, there is no dedicated volume control for the alarm app. I've tried turning down the "system sounds" volume control, and this has no effect.
   
2. I've tried changing the settings of the app, but as far as I can tell the app has no settings page, and no way to turn off the volume for the timer. (There is a way to turn off the sound for the alarm clock).
   

If there is no specific "Alarm & Clock" fix, I would be open to using a different app, as long as it wouldn't require me to install something like "Java Run-time Environment", which I don't want to do (security risks).

 

alarm clock app no sound windows 10

I FINALLY found a fix for my alarm sound problem, so I thought I would share what I found. I hope this might help others with the same problem.

I am running Windows 10 Anniversary Edition Pro 64-bit. My alarms and timers in the "Alarms & Clock" app had stopped playing sounds a few days ago. Microsoft Support was unable to find a cause or a fix for the problem. I have a case # if any Microsoft Support
folks would like that info... just ask. All other audio, sounds, apps, etc. were working just fine. System Restore wasn't working right, so I had to fix a fix. Somehow, in my "Alarms & Clock" app, all the sound files associated with the alarms had been blanked
out (no way to see this outside of viewing the Windows Registry [regedit.exe]). If I create or edit an alarm, then try to preview the alarm sound (like Chimes, Xylophone, Chords, etc), no sound is heard when I click the triangle play button beside each alarm
sound. Also, Timers no not play any sounds when completed. I do get notifications for my Alarms and Timers, I just don't hear any sounds. This caused me to wake up late a couple times before I found a fix. If you experience this same behavior, this fix may
work for you. However, directly editing the Windows Registry can be dangerous to your system. Incorrect registry settings can have drastic and undesirable effects, possibility even making your system completel unusable (possible, but worst case). You are welcome
to try the steps that I used to fix my particular problem, but please be careful. It would be a wise idea to back up your system before trying these steps, just in case.

• Open registry editor -> Press WindowsKey + R, type "regedit", click "OK" or press ENTER. Accept the UAC warning when prompted by clicking "Yes"
• Double click on the navigation tree and navigate to go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> App Events -> EventLabels
• Scroll down to the "Notification.Looping.Alarm1" through "Notification.Looping.Alarm10". All 10 of these will need the same value changed.
  
  You will also need to make this change for "Notification.Looping.Call1" through "Notification.Looping.Call10". So, when done, you will have made the same change to all 20 registry keys.
• Select the first one (Notification.Looping.Alarm1), double click on "ExcludeFromCPL"
  
  Change the value of "1" to "0". By doing this, you are making these alarms visible in the "Sounds" or "Change System Sounds" Control Panel applet used in later steps. Now, make the same change for the other 19 keys until each has the "ExcludeFromCPL" value
  set to "0".
• Search for the "Change System Sounds" Control Panel applet by typing "change system sounds" into the Cortana search box on your task bar at the bottom-left of your screen. Click the "Change System Sounds" result to launch the "Sound" applet, which should
  already have the "Sound" tab selected. *** You can press WindowsKey + S to search for it, if Cortana has been removed from your task bar.
• Now, there will be new entries in the "Program Event" section (added by the previous steps), located under the Windows heading. They will be "Alarm 1" through "Alarm 10" and "Incoming Call Notification 1" through "Incoming Call Notification 10".
• In the "Program Event" section, select "Alarm 1" then for the "Sounds" option below, select "Alarm1.wav". Repeat this for all 10 Alarms. For "Alarm 2", select "Alarm2.wav", for "Alarm 3", select "Alarm3.wav", and so on through "Alarm 10".
• Do the same thing for "Incoming Call Notification 1" through "Incoming Call Notification 10" by selecting the "Program Event" named "Incoming Call Notification 1" and setting the "Sounds" option to "Call1.wav". Repeat this for the rest of the Incoming Call
  Notifications, setting the sound "Call2.wav" for "Incoming Call Notification 2", "Call3.wav" for "Incoming Call Notification 3", and so on through "Incoming Call Notification 10".

Now, if this fix works for you, and you noticed the sound for Timers in the Alarms & Clock app had stopped working as well, this workaround should fix that, too. It seems that the sound used for Timers is whatever is set for "Alarm 9" in the "Change System
Sounds" Control Panel applet. Just set the "Sounds" option for "Alarm 9" to whatever sound you want to use for timers. This will also change the "Echo" alarm sound to whatever sound file you choose for "Alarm 9".

You could now use the "Change System Sounds" applet to further customize the Alarm sounds used by the "Alarms & Clock" app, but all the Alarm sounds should be back to the default sounds after completing this fix. For the "Alarms & Clock" app, "Alarm 1"
corresponds to the "Chimes" alarm sound, "Alarm 2" is the "Xylophone" alarm sound, "Alarm 3" is the "Chords" alarm sound, and so forth.

If someone has a more proper fix, or an automated version of this fix, it would be greatly appreciated if you could post it here.

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