Windows 10: Windows 10 Pro 1809 -- Windows System Sounds stopped working

System Sounds are not playing. I couldn't find any category that covers this or a "misc" category, if this is in the wrong place, please move it. Also if it has been covered before, please point me there, I could not figure out how to search for it without getting tons of **** from 10 years ago mixed in.


Sound works fine on video playback. If I go to the "sounds" menu and press the test button, the sounds play fine, ie: the WAV files are intact, the volumes are at 100% in the Volume Mixer and not muted.

But stuff like startup/shutdown/USB insert/remove are completely silent, even though they have the standard sound files selected in the "sounds" menu (and I have tried pressing "restore defaults").


Also, some of my apps like IrfanView call through the Microsoft System Sounds "asterisk", possibly by sending a BEL to STDOUT, and they stopped working as well.


It looks like my last major upgrade was in January, but it kept working after that... I'm not 100% sure when it stopped working, but it has been more than 3 days and less than 2 weeks.


The only thing I can think of that might have caused it is that I sometimes press the "mute" function on all of the audio if I need to leave the computer working while I sleep, but I've tried toggling the mute functions, rebooting, etc, etc. and nothing has fixed it.

:)

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows 10 upgrade problem, no input accepted

I really hate having to come here and ask for help, but I really am stumped. It hurts my geek pride. I have a PC with fairly modern hardware in it. It has a p8p67 pro in it. I have tried upgrading windows 10 on it twice now. Both times I have had the same result.

After windows finishes upgrading it goes to the log in/set up screen. I can't do anything. No keyboard or mouse input is accepted.

I will list some, or hopefully all, of the troubleshooting steps I have tried:

• Move keyboard and mouse to different USB ports.
• Try different keyboard or mouse.
• Restart computer, repeatedly.
• Google for related issues.
• Update Bios, because why not.
• Create boot media and revert to windows 7.

The windows 10 system restore boot media works fine with keyboard and mouse. All USB ports work in windows 7. I don't know what is wrong. I suspect that windows 10 is lacking a driver of some sort, but since the computer accepts no input I have no way of checking for which driver let alone installing it.

Please help me figure this out. If I have to revert back to windows 7 again, I am not going to get it upgraded to windows 10. Thank you in advanced.

 

Windows 10

Thats awesome! I wonder just how far we can bend it! for the record the official system requirements for the tech preview are as follows.

• Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster
  
  
• RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
  
  
• Free hard disk space: 16 GB
  
  
• Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver
  
  
• A Microsoft account and Internet access

which are the same for windows 8 operating systems.