Ding.wav will not ding

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[CWBillow]

It seems that the WAV file is damaged, ‘cuz it won’t “ding” when clicked.

But it also seems that I can’t replace it because it’s protected.

I tried copying over it as Admin, but that didn’t work.

How do I replace the damaged file with one that I know is good?

 

 

Chuck Billow

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In Win 11, ding.wav is in c:\windows\media\ding.wav and is 70,060 bytes. The sound is so low, so high-pitched, and so brief it seems that it does not play at all. Raise your speaker volume to max and play with Windows Media Player. You should hear a tiny blip.

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My my my, it’s crazy, they can’t even leave the Windows sounds alone?  You would think they’d  have much more important things to do!  A Ding should go Ding, and a Blip should go Blip!  Yikes.

Being 20 something in the 70's was so much better than being 70 something in the insane 20's

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If you need a ding that’s loud enough to hear and actually sounds like “ding” when played, use C:\Windows\Media\Quirky\Windows Ding.wav instead.

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CWBillow

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OK guys, thanks.

Chuck Billow

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Chuck,

If you can’t find “Windows Ding.wav in the “C:\Windows\Media\Quirky” directory (as mentioned by @n0ads ), then try looking in the “C:\Windows\Media” directory (as mentioned above by @Paul-T when he was referring to the “ding.wav” file) instead.

The reason I say that is because on my copy of Windows 10, the “\Quirky” subdirectory is empty, and the file “Windows Ding.wav” is actually located in the “C:\Windows\Media” directory.

I realize that you’re running Windows 11, not Windows 10, but I’m pointing this out in the event that your “\Quirky” subdirectory is empty when you go look in it.

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Chuck,

Alternative the  Windows\media location.  Probably a long shot.

I’m on Win 10 and have a lot of sound files here including an audible ding.wav here:

C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-shell-sounds_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.19041.1_none_cd0389b654e71da2

I know you’re running Win 11 so this location may not be available to you.

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Just FYI…

The Windows Ding.wav in my C:\Windows\Media\Quirky folder is noticeable louder than the one in the C:\Windows\Media folder.

84.7 dB vs 73.7 dB which means it’s ~3½ times louder.

BTW, the Quirky sound scheme (all 20 files) can be downloaded from the Windows sounds website.

They also have a lot of other Windows sound schemes as well as all the default sounds from Windows 11 all the way back to Windows 3.11.

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Bear in mind that some sound systems, especially Bluetooth ones, take a while to wake up. On these, you may not hear the ding because they haven’t fully woken up by the time the sound has finished playing.

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