Top Document: Compaq Contura Aero Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 3.3.2.2 Windows Video driver Next Document: 3.3.2.4 PCMCIA stuff See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge You can get it at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/SPEAK.EXE. I use it and it works great! -Philip or http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MSspeaker/ Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 16:21:18 -0700 From: Gordy Gale Subject: Speak.exe install explanation Here's a better explanation of how to install speak.exe into an Aero with WIN95 : Quote from Microsoft: Speak.exe contains a Microsoft Windows sound driver that allows most .wav files to be played on the PC speaker on most computers not equipped with a sound card. This article describes how to obtain, install, and use the PC speaker driver with Windows 95 and Windows 98. Download the Speak.exe file to an empty folder, and then double-click the Speak.exe file to extract its contents. Make sure that you do not extract it to a /windows or /windows/system directory. I just made a new folder in C: called Speak. To install the PC Speaker Driver, use the appropriate method: Windows 95: 1.Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, double-click Add New Hardware. 2.Click Next, click No, and then click Next. 3.In the Hardware Types box, click Sound, Video, And Game Controllers, and then click Next. 4.Click Have Disk. 5.In the Copy Manufacturer's Files From box, enter the full path for the folder containing the Speak.exe file and its contents. Click OK. 6.Click Sound Driver For PC Speaker, and then click OK. 7.Click Finish. 8.When you are prompted to restart your computer, do so. link to this page: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q138/8/57.asp [Q] Has anyone had luck running the PC Speaker driver for Windows? I've tried to no avail. The driver loads fine, but doesn't do anything. In setup, I can change the few options it gives, but the test button is disabled. [A] I had the same problem with it. It turned out that I had removed all the wave files from the system many moons earlier to save space (no soundcard, why waste space on sound files?) and I forgot about it. I reloaded several waves from my desktop in the c:/windows, including DING.WAV (or is it BELL.WAV) which the test button uses, and after the files were there, the test button started working. Have you tried playing any files with a player like WPLANY.EXE or with the sound recorder applet? They should work ok as long as the driver is properly installed even if the test button isn't there. Mine did. The documentation mentions that media player worn't work with the speaker driver. Anyway, I've had great luck with it playing WAV, VOC, and AU files from the web. It even does sounds for some games, though it causes all animation to pause. User Contributions:Top Document: Compaq Contura Aero Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 3.3.2.2 Windows Video driver Next Document: 3.3.2.4 PCMCIA stuff Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Philip Wilk <PWilk-aerofaq@ZenSpider.com>
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