Use
the Windows Sound Scheme
Contributed
by Keith Furman
Windows XP ships with a really nice new sound scheme, but it's not
loaded by default for some reason. So once you've installed Windows XP,
one of the first things you should do is get that new sound scheme loaded.
To do so, open up Control Panel and navigate to Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices. Then, choose the task titled Change the sound scheme. In the dialog that appears, choose Windows Default for the sound scheme. Windows will ask you whether you want to save the previous scheme, which is usually a brain-dead questions, since no scheme was previously loaded. So choose No, and then click OK to exit the dialog.
