Hello...
I'm experiencing a strange issue with my system sounds, and it's been going on for a while. I tried to look this up, but I can't find out how to fix it, and the one place I could find was going to make me sign up for a forum account which I have no desire to do just to solve one problem. My issue is that certain system sounds will play, but others won't unless it's something specific. Windows plays sounds when switching folders in file explorer, and it also plays the selection sound when moving between items in a list. It won't play the speech recognition sounds or any other system sound at all unless I click the test sound button in the sounds control panel. It also won't play the critical stop or default beep sounds when they're supposed to unless other programs require it or when adjusting my system sounds volume. Default beep also plays when I push the J key or any other unrecognized key while in browse mode with NVDA, but I'm pretty sure it only works because NVDA tells the system to play that sound. None of these sounds actually play when they're supposed to when interacting with windows explorer. Does anyone have any idea why it's not working right? If I need to, I guess I could reinstall Windows to fix this, and considering all the other oddities my computer has exhibited that probably wouldn't be a bad idea, but I'd rather not have to do that if I don't have to. On a side note, I heard a forum user say that Windows seems to self destruct after a year or 2 of use, and that really does seem to be true. I take good care of my tech, but no matter what I do I just cannot keep Windows from eventually destroying itself in some of the weirdest ways I have ever seen a computer break itself. Does anyone know of some way I could fix this little system quirk?