Windows 10 Not Playing System Sounds. All Other Sounds Are Okay.

Hey, everybody. I solved it. After a long time of researching, I finally got my system sounds to start playing, again.

All I did was open up Regedit and click on the HKEY_CURRENT_USER key.



To the right you should see a String Value named (Default). In order for system sounds to play, the Data section should be labeled (value not set). If it doesn't say that in the Data section, delete the String Value. It will create a new (Default) String Value with its Data section labeled (value not set). Then, your system sounds will work, again. My (Default) String Value was labeled 0000000E9C2B9516768068941CF36140DA9F47D6, so I deleted my (Default) String Value and now my system sounds are working again. Regedit also automatically created a new (Default) String Value with its Data section labeled (value not set). I hope that this fix works for you as well if you are having the same problem as mine.

WareNetwork2000 said:

Hey, everybody. I solved it. After a long time of researching, I finally got my system sounds to start playing, again.

All I did was open up Regedit and click on the HKEY_CURRENT_USER key.



To the right you should see a String Value named (Default). In order for system sounds to play, the Data section should be labeled (value not set). If it doesn't say that in the Data section, delete the String Value. It will create a new (Default) String Value with its Data section labeled (value not set). Then, your system sounds will work, again. My (Default) String Value was labeled 0000000E9C2B9516768068941CF36140DA9F47D6, so I deleted my (Default) String Value and now my system sounds are working again. Regedit also automatically created a new (Default) String Value with its Data section labeled (value not set). I hope that this fix works for you as well if you are having the same problem as mine.

i made an account here to thank WareNetwork2000 for helping. This fixed my issue :) kudos

ShadowEyes said:

i made an account here to thank WareNetwork2000 for helping. This fixed my issue :) kudos

You're welcome.

WareNetwork2000 said:

Hey, everybody. I solved it. After a long time of researching, I finally got my system sounds to start playing, again.
All I did was open up Regedit and click on the HKEY_CURRENT_USER key....

... I hope that this fix works for you as well if you are having the same problem as mine.

Thank you for the information. It saved me from a lot of wasted time and efforts.

hello10 said:

Thank you for the information. It saved me from a lot of wasted time and efforts.

You're welcome.

Thanks alot WareNetwork2000, that was one of the strangest things I've experienced in Windows 10 in a very long time

Morten79 said:

Thanks alot WareNetwork2000, that was one of the strangest things I've experienced in Windows 10 in a very long time

You're welcome.

Hm, I also fixed it by WareNetwork2000's solution.

I'm here on Windows 10 Pro...

Thank you !

BTW, I have some song names or parts of them showing in the registry, what the... ? :)





Maybe just some Winamp bug.

WareNetwork2000 said:

Hey, everybody. I solved it. After a long time of researching, I finally got my system sounds to start playing, again.

All I did was open up Regedit and click on the HKEY_CURRENT_USER key.



To the right you should see a String Value named (Default). In order for system sounds to play, the Data section should be labeled (value not set). If it doesn't say that in the Data section, delete the String Value. It will create a new (Default) String Value with its Data section labeled (value not set). Then, your system sounds will work, again. My (Default) String Value was labeled 0000000E9C2B9516768068941CF36140DA9F47D6, so I deleted my (Default) String Value and now my system sounds are working again. Regedit also automatically created a new (Default) String Value with its Data section labeled (value not set). I hope that this fix works for you as well if you are having the same problem as mine.

This fixed my system sounds. Thank you so much. My value for (Default) was "empty", but not "(value not set)". Deleting the entry fixed it.

You're awesome. This is great. I've tried to fix this for days.