Windows Event Sounds Not Working

This page answers questions like these:

• Why have my program events sounds stopped working?
  
• Why have my Windows system sounds stopped working?
  
• Why are my program events sounds not working?
  
• Why is there no sound from Windows program events?
  
• Why aren’t Windows startup and shutdown sounds working?
  
• Why is my Windows Sound Scheme not working?
  
• How come my Windows system sounds don’t work?
  
• How come my Windows system sounds aren’t working?
  

Windows Event Sounds Are Working:

• Try switching to another sound scheme and back again as follows ...
  1. Select another sound scheme, e.g. “No Sounds” or “Windows Default”.
  2. Restart your computer.
  3. Change back to the sound scheme you originally had.
  4. Restart your computer again.
  5. See if the sound scheme now works.
• For each non-working event sound ...
  1. Check that the file for the sound points to the sound file you think it should.
  2. Check that the file has a filename that ends with “.wav”.
  3. Check that the file is readable by the SYSTEM user.
  4. Check that the file is not encrypted using EFS (Encrypted File System). If it is, unencrypt it.