Toggle keys does not make a tone

ToggleKeys is enabled (a check mark in "Turn on toggle keys"), but there is no dial tone when you press SHIFT caps lock, NumLock or scroll stop.

  • I pressed 'Apply' then 'OK '.
  • My computer does have an internal speaker.

How to hear a dial tone?

After spending hours on Google looking for this issue, I came to the conclusion that I'm stuck with one of these windows eccentric problems affecting some users, but not all, and for which there is no established cause or cure. (And the ToggleKeys aren't my only problem - see below.)

For the majority of users (I presume), the tones made by ToggleKeys play very well. But for many other users - including me - they do not play. For some users, ToggleKeys must be turned on with each re-boot. Other users should check both turn on toggle keys and Activate the ToggleKeys by holding down the key Numlock for 5 seconds to hear signals. Some users may hear tones when they use their audio controller integrated; others can hear them only after you have installed a sound card. For some, update or restore audio drivers solves the problem, but not for all. I don't have enough information to say if this problem affects both 32-bit versions and 64-bit Windows.

I was hoping that this could be a hardware problem - they are often easier to fix. But, unfortunately, this problem manifests itself on different hardware configurations: desktop and laptop computer, sound card and sound chip. And in all cases where this problem is found, any other system sounds play perfectly, just like music.

There is no explanation for this (or if anyone knows the explanation, they don't say) and only one solution: there are third-party utilities that replace and extend the ToggleKeys feature.

For those who work the tones of the ToggleKeys, here's a tip: Microsoft has decided to send sound signals to the system external speakers (or headphones, as appropriate) instead of using the built-in speaker of the motherboard (the one that makes "beep") as in Windows XP. So if you work late into the night and cut the sound to not disturb the sleep of your family, you will not hear the tones of the ToggleKeys.

As I said, the ToggleKeys aren't only whim I have to deal with that. I also discovered that Narrator does not at all. It is not read aloud, so matter how high the volume. For me, the Narrator is just a novelty, but still: why it doesn't work? It worked perfectly in Windows XP.

In the search for my problem of Narrator, I learned that the Narrator is a utility to test-to-speech, so I went immediately to the control panel of the speech recognition and text-to-speech, see tab if this feature was working. When I clicked on the Preview Voice button, Anna Microsoft has not said a Word. Finally, an error message appeared:

"The requested task cannot be carried out because the necessary engine could not be created. Please select a different engine or other audio device. »

It turns out that there is another of these eccentric Windows problems that nobody seems to have an explanation or a resolution that works for everyone.

To put things in perspective: Windows 7 has also many improvements on Vista and XP, and I'm grateful for that. But the new OS also removes and breaks (in this case) features that worked perfectly under XP. What is particularly surprising is that Windows 7 breaks accessibility features. Several companies, public institutions and Government agencies are required by law to provide computers with accessibility features.

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