[pchelpers] Re: [pchelpers]Callwave/sound
- From: Ellen M <ejmay@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 16:48:44 -0800 (PST)
weird. I was starting to re-install my audio and sound came back all on its
own. I don't know why . but my box is cured. thanks guys!
Cheers!
Ellen
"G.Cox" <georgetcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Try re-installing your sound card. At this point it can't hurt anything.
G. Cox
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ellen M"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 4:27 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: [pchelpers]Callwave/sound
I now have no sound in any profiles. It's some little file I need. I'll find
it one day.... I'm a little leery of a re-install....
cheers,
EllenM
Scott McNay wrote:
Hi George,
Monday, December 29, 2003, 5:12:13 PM, you wrote:
GC> Can't Ellen just delete her .pwl files and gain access to those
GC> profiles that way?
Hmmm... yes... unless she needs to keep those passwords. The *.PWL
file holds the Windows login password and the password for dialing up
to the internet. I'm not sure what other things are controlled by it.
If the problem is just getting access to the profile, then can just
rename the *.PWL file to something else, log on with the right name
but no password, fix the problem, log off, and copy the original *.PWL
file back. I don't think that's the problem, though, and there's also
the possibility that Windows will decide to invalidate the *.PWL file
anyway.
Another possibility (which would probably fix the problem in
question), is to rename both the profile itself (I think it's under
C:\WINDOWS\PROFILES) and the *.PWL file, create a new profile with the
same name as the original, copy the *.PWL file over, copy the desktop
and menu over from the old profile to the new profile. If doesn't
work, delete the new profile and copy the old one back and copy back
the old *.PWL file. I don't have a win98 machine handy so I can't tell
how feasible it is, but might be worth trying. It wouldn't work with
Win2K/XP, though, since each profile has a unique ID by which it is
identified, and that ID can't be set manually.
Ellen, have you tried reinstalling Windows on top of itself yet? That
often fixes such problems.
Win95/98 pretty much just use profiles to give each user their own
desktop, so I'm not sure what the problem could be that would
cause it to work in one profile but not another.
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