How to disable MsgBox sound

[danecook21]

In most cases there is going to be a sound for Default. Why are you on Win98 anyway? :P

[longwolf]

Why are you on Win98 anyway? :P

I stayed with win98 till I finally managed to blow out my old comp.
Why pay for (or steal) a new OS when the old one works for you?

[CDRIVE]

In most cases there is going to be a sound for Default. Why are you on Win98 anyway? :P

That's about as pointless as me asking why you're using VB6.
After all, they were both developed about the same time.

[danecook21]

That's about as pointless as me asking why you're using VB6.

Not really, VB6 is just a development tool. Windows 98 is the operating system and it is very limiting. XP is so much better. and of course now there is Vista and Windows 7 in the works.
I mean if it works for you great. I'm just surprised that a developer on here still uses it for a primary system. I mean one huge thing would be security. Plus newer software tends not to work with it.

[LaVolpe]

In most cases there is going to be a sound for Default. Why are you on Win98 anyway? :P

I think the real point is that different operating systems have different behaviors. If one is writing code that can be used on older operating systems, then knowing the behaviors is a big plus. I personally have the following systems on my pc: 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2K, XP. Vista can wait

[longwolf]

I personally have the following systems on my pc: 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2K, XP. Vista can wait

You got all of those on one comp?
You must be sharing partitions.

[LaVolpe]

You got all of those on one comp?
You must be sharing partitions.

Nope. Using Microsoft's free Virtual PC. But you gotta have the installation disks to the other o/s you want to load -- Win95 was a bear, but the rest were easy enough.

Edited: While typing this, I am currently updating Win2K with several patches from Microsoft, even though my primary/running system is XP.

[Keithuk]

In most cases there is going to be a sound for Default. Why are you on Win98 anyway? :P

Don't ask this is a long story.

I've actually had another hard drive this week and its taken seven attempts to get WinXP to install. Otherwise I get loads of blue screen errors and it crashes.

[CDRIVE]

Don't ask this is a long story.

I've actually had another hard drive this week and its taken seven attempts to get WinXP to install. Otherwise I get loads of blue screen errors and it crashes.

Keith, is it possible that the problem is with XP not working well with the
W98 BIOS chip?

[Keithuk]

Keith, is it possible that the problem is with XP not working well with the
W98 BIOS chip?

I'm afraid not Chris. I bought WinXP 2002 4 years ago and installed it on my old hard drive without a problem. I bought a new hard drive a couple of years ago and it wouldn't install at all, the BIOS is exactly the same Award 4.60PGA. I had another drive last week and that kept on throwing up the blue screen of death errors. I kept on trying different thing then I decided when it asks if you want to do a full NTFS format which I did but after the format got to 100% I get the error again and there is nothing wrong with the drive. So I went for a Quick format I went for quick and it started to install.

I know this isn't a VB problem so I'm sorry if I keep talking about it, but people ask.