

Listen to the new sounds and assign them to events as you want. Alarm01, Windows Notify Calendar, Windows Message Nudge that are not assigned by default in Windows XP. There are new sound files in Windows 10, e.g. Speech recognition sound files are included but must be assigned manually.Ģ. To delete the sound files if desired, delete the \windows\media\Windows 10\ folder.ġ. Select Delete to delete the sound scheme (note, this only deletes the scheme list not the files).ĥ. Choose the Windows 10 Default sound scheme in the "Sound scheme" drop-down listĤ. Open the Sounds and Audio Devices control applet in Contol Panelģ. Choose the Windows 10 Default scheme in the "Sound scheme" drop-down listĬhoose to save your existing sound scheme if requiredġ. Start\Control Panel\Sounds and Audio Devicesĥ. Open the Sounds and Audio Devices control applet in Contol Panel When asked "Are you sure you want to add the information." choose "Yes"ģ. Double-click the win10sounds.reg file to merge with the Windows Registry I updated this Windows 10 sounds from copy of Windows 10 Core Pro pre-RTM build 10162ġ Copy the "Windows 10" folder and contents as a subfoler of \windows\mediaĢ. Write-Host " The Registry Key Created Sucessfully.The original Windows 10 RTM sound schemes adapted for Windows XP. Click on sounds tab in the popup that appears and then manually replace the sounds you wish to by clicking on the event from the list then on browse and double clicking on the sound you wish to choose as replacement. Set-ItemProperty -Name "(Default)" -Value "" press enter and scroll down and click on More sound settings. This can be accomplished by an one-liner: Get-ChildItem -Path "HKCU:\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps" | Get-ChildItem | Get-ChildItem | Where-Object | However, in your case, you can just clear out all the values, since you're applying a "no sounds" theme. Current.Īs an example, to apply the No Sounds scheme to the System Exclamation event, you would copy HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemExclamation\.None over HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemExclamation\.Current. For each app event matching HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\*\*, copy the subkey for the new scheme name over the subkey called.To apply a sounds scheme, the appropriate action is: However, the event sounds will still play, and that is because the selected scheme has not been applied. This will (technically) set the selected scheme, which you can verify by going to your Sounds settings and see that the No Sounds scheme is selected. None: New-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\AppEvents\Schemes -Name "(Default)" -Value ".None" -Force | Out-Null

So you can set the selected scheme by changing this to. The selected scheme is at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes, which defaults to. None you can see this by exploring HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Names. However, you then have to apply the new scheme, which is a bit more involved.
