No sounds at all! My MSN messenger has gone dumb..

[missjoeri]

I have just installed MSN messenger 6.2 and the latest plus version, not too long ago I already had it on my pc and it worked fine, I changed the soundfiles and I got along fine with my msn.
But now I have reinstalled it and much to my horror....there is no sound...no sound at all.
Not even the original MSN sounds, not the sounds I want it to use...nothing!
And worse is that I can do nothing about it.
When I go to the sound-setup in my windows2000 where you decide what sounds to use for any device I do see the MSN messenger named there but no sounds underneath it for me to alter.
Just the name of MSN messenger.
I have reinstalled the whole messenger thing again and again...but there are no sounds anywhere.
So when I am chatting with friends and not looking at my screen I have no way of knowing that they are trying to get my attention!
So the problem isnt that the sounds are pointing to a file I moved or something like that.
There just are no sounds attached to msn...
Help!

[OzMental]

Well, ive not heard of that before, try installing MSNM 6.1 again, then post back here what happend, if it all works fine then its a bug in MSNM 6.2, if you go to Tools > Options > General, look under alerts, if you find that any are unticked, tick them.

If you still have problems, download the same version from another web-site, mayb it was the download from the site that wasn't complete, did you download it from the official site ?

[missjoeri]

Sadly I tried that but it didnt work either...somehow MSN just wont use its sounds no matter how I try!
It is the official version from the MSN site btw.

[detn8r]

If you navigate to C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger, do you see any sounds within here?

If not, I have zipped the default ones, and you can download them and extract them into the folder.

http://detn8r.pluslite.com/downloads/MSN-Sounds.zip

[missjoeri]

Yes there are about 5 sounds there that play fine on their own but just dont work in MSN somehow.
I tried replacing them with your sounds but that didnt do much either.

[AwesomeSauce]

what operating system do you have?

[missjoeri]

windows 2000 professional

[AwesomeSauce]

Ummm... is that the same thing as XP?

[David]

quote:Originally posted by AwesomeSauce

Ummm... is that the same thing as XP?

Is that some sort of joke...?

Windows XP runs on a Win2K core, however they are obviously different OS's.

Windows XP
Windows 2000

[missjoeri]

Well the only solution I have found was...go back to the previous version of MSN, so not 6.2 but a older one.
When I did this I got my sounds back, then I reinstalled the new version and this one took over the old sounds so now I have version 6.2 with sounds again.
Thank you all for your help.