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I have a small VB Script that calls a system sound as an alert. In Windows XP I used sndrec32 to play that sound. But sndrec32 was not continued in Vista and Windows 7. It was light and quick and ideal for such tasks.

Q: What replaced this tool? When you click the test button in the sounds window what is it that plays it?

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In Vista, Sound Recorder is instead called SoundRecorder.exe and has different command-line switches.

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  • The only command line option I found so far can only be used for recording.
    SoundRecorder /FILE myrec.wma /DURATION 0000:00:30

  • The old /PLAY "C:\Path\File.wav" /CLOSE switch doesn't work anymore

  • You can use wmplayer.exe %windir%\media\ding.wav instead.
    It supports several command line parameters and can be started minimized

  • You could copy the old sndrec32.exe from Windows XP over to your Windows 7 into the same place. It needs the "Run as Administrator" option checked

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