Using ShowSounds in Windows 95

• What can ShowSounds do?
• Setting Up ShowSounds

What can ShowSounds do?

The ShowSounds feature is for people who can not hear sounds generated by the computer. For programs that relay information by sound only, ShowSounds creates a visual replication such as captions or icons.

ShowSounds has no user-defined options.

Setting Up ShowSounds

1. Bring up the Accessibility Properties window. The Keyboard option will be on top.
2. If the focus (the highlighted or outlined portion of the screen) is not on the Keyboard label at the top of the screen, press TAB until it is (this should take nine presses) and then use the right arrow key to bring the focus over to the Sound label. Or, press CTRL+TAB once, until the Sound tab comes to the front. At the end of this step, you should see a window like this where ShowSounds is the bottom option:
   
3. Press h to bring the focus to the "Use ShowSounds" checkbox.
4. If the "Use ShowSounds" checkbox is not checked, press h. This turns on ShowSounds.
5. If you want to test ShowSounds without closing the Accessibility Properties window, either hit ALT+A or hit TAB four times, until the focus is on the "Apply" button, and then press ENTER. This allows you to test ShowSounds and turn it off if desired without having to reopen all of the windows. To close the Accessibility Properties window, hit ENTER again.
6. If you want to save the settings and close the Accessibility Properties window at the same time, hit TAB twice, until the focus is on the "OK" button, and then press ENTER. This will close the Accessibility Properties window.
7. Hit ALT+F+C to close the Control Panel window if it is still open.

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