– Jason Venz A To install the speaker driver, download speak.exe from ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/Mslfiles/ (or from this month's cover CD) and execute it to extract the driver files. Run the Add New Hardware applet (Start–Control Panel–Add New Hardware) and click Next. When asked whether you want Windows to search for your new hardware, choose No and click Next again. From the resulting list of hardware types, choose Sound, video and game controllers, click Next and then Have disk. In the Copy manufacturer’s files from field, type in the path to the driver files and click OK. You will be prompted to restart your computer. [image: speaker.tif] The speaker driver doesn’t let you fine-tune .wav file playback. However, you can access some rudimentary controls through the Control Panel. Choose Start–Control Panel–Multimedia–Advanced–Audio Devices and double-click Audio for Sound Driver for PC Speaker to access speed and volume controls. – Neville Clarkson
Installing a speaker driver
Q Our PCs at work have only speakers, but they cannot be turned on — the options in Windows 95 are greyed out. I remember seeing a driver somewhere that allowed the speaker to be used for something more than a simple beep, but can no longer find any reference to this.
Use the Add New Hardware applet to install Microsoft’s speaker driver
Category: hardware, Win95
Issue: May 1998
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