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29-01-2008, 12:43
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Absinthe
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Chester
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Multi-User sound settings in XP...
Just wondering if anybody has any ideas on this as i've no clue!
If 'default user' is saving the mute setting from someone muting audio whilst logged in is there any way of stopping this being saved? Our PCs are meant to have audio on but I've noticed on a couple of PCs where someones tried to listen to something, the audio is muted. This must be saved from a previous session. |
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29-01-2008, 13:15
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Screaming Orgasm
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Newbury
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Well, volume settings are in the registry...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\A udio\VolumeControl However, they probably only get used across reboots. There are several 3rd-party volume control apps 'out there'. Maybe one of those can be scripted. 
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29-01-2008, 13:17
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Absinthe
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i'll have to have a (better) google around...
if only it would work like all other default user settings 
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29-01-2008, 14:24
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Bananaman
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Daz/Mark/Garp/anyone *nix guru just out of interest is this on of those quirky windows bugs, because its not entirely multi-user (although it is in most respects). How would *nix cope? I'm just interested as i've never run accross this...
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29-01-2008, 14:26
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Screaming Orgasm
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It's not a bug - it's just a choice between volume being a system setting or a user setting.
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29-01-2008, 14:31
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Absinthe
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Mark - how can you set whether or not its a system or user setting?
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29-01-2008, 15:04
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Bananaman
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29-01-2008, 15:33
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The Stig
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Lep - Short answer is I guess it depends on your *nix install. Generally speaking though in my experience, everything is in userspace so you could do what you want from user to user. It comes with it's own drawbacks of course - but it's just a design choice, like how it is in Windows. In Windows you cant get one user or process lock the sound device so that nothing else can use it (say, playing an MP3 while an IM comes in and not hearing the notification - because the file is locked by whatever media player it is), but depending on what/how it's done in Linux, you could. May even crash an app if it's not coded to handle it. 6 of one...
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29-01-2008, 16:46
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Absinthe
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Location: Chester
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reg... eurrghh.
too much effort for uber network. Problem doesn't crop up often enough for me to contemplate this further. |
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