No More Sound

GLKNY

Recently upgraded to Quicken 2021 for Windows Premier. After update to R33.19 Build 27.1.33.19, the program lost all sound capability. The Windows 10 PC I'm using has sound for all other programs and apps. The sounds are checked off in Q preferences, any suggestions?

Quicken Anja

Hello @GLKNY,

Thank you for reaching out to the Community to tell us about your issue, though I apologize that you are experiencing this.

If you haven't already, I suggest that you perform a clean uninstall/reinstall (this is different from simply uninstalling and reinstalling the program) which will clear out and replace the existing configuration files for Quicken (this does not affect any of your data and/or backup files).

To do so, please refer to this support article and scroll down to the section titled If the steps above do not resolve the issue. Then, open and follow the instructions found in the blue dropdown sections titled First: Download and use QCleanUI and Second: Rename Quicken Shared Folders.

Let us know how it goes!

Quicken Anja

Hello @GLKNY,

Thank you for reaching out to the Community to tell us about your issue, though I apologize that you are experiencing this.

If you haven't already, I suggest that you perform a clean uninstall/reinstall (this is different from simply uninstalling and reinstalling the program) which will clear out and replace the existing configuration files for Quicken (this does not affect any of your data and/or backup files).

To do so, please refer to this support article and scroll down to the section titled If the steps above do not resolve the issue. Then, open and follow the instructions found in the blue dropdown sections titled First: Download and use QCleanUI and Second: Rename Quicken Shared Folders.

Let us know how it goes!

UKR

Quicken Sounds (Windows only. Mac has no sound effects)

1) Make sure that the speakers are turned on and the volume is somewhat up (not all the way down) and not muted.
2) In Quicken ensure that in Edit / Preferences / Setup "Turn on Quicken Sounds" has a checkmark. Restart Quicken if you had to make a change.
3) Make sure that in Control Panel / Sound / Sounds tab the active Sound Scheme still contains the Quicken sound files. If the sound scheme was improperly modified by some other software (or Windows) update, find a different sound scheme which contains the Quicken sounds and make that the active sound scheme.

GLKNY

Thank you for your insight, I wasn't aware of the sounds/Sound Scheme/Program Events/Quicken. I was able to locate Quicken in the Program Events but unfortunately there were no quicken sounds actually associated with Quicken, only Windows etc sounds.

UKR

Look at the list of available Sound Schemes. In the above image, the active sound scheme is "Windows Default (modified)". Is there another one, perhaps "Windows Default", which contains Quicken sound events? Try activating/applying that, reboot and see if that gets sounds back to normal.

For a sound event to be active and have a little speaker icon next to it, a .WAV file name must be associated with it.

If all else fails, follow the instructions above to remove and reinstall Quicken.

GLKNY

Thanks for the follow up. Unfortunately I had to do a complete uninstall and re-install but now it works after setting the sounds in Quicken to be checked off. Surprised that sounds on is not the default, but no biggy.

Quicken Anja

@GLKNY Thanks for the update! Glad to hear you were able to get your issue resolved.

GLKNY

Thanks for your help!