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Sound Typist lives in the taskbar's system tray in Windows. Depending on your Windows settings, you may be hiding the system tray icons (Right click the taskbar, Taskbar Settings, and Select which icons appear in the taskbar). Make sure Sound Typist's system tray icon is visible if you want to access it, turn it on/off, change the sound/volume.

Right click it to show the popup menu. Click "Quit". To remove it from starting at login, toggle the "Start Sound Typist at Login".

There's no uninstaller, so to delete it manually, you'll need to find where the installer installs it, probably somewhere under "C:\Users\(your user name)\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\

You an also grab the portable version, place that wherever you want, and turn on/off the start at login through that.

bkjames002 years ago (2 edits)

Thank you very much. This is helpful (or would have been) but I had already deleted the files that were installed. So I'm 'stuck' with the sounds even though I no longer have sound typist installed. When I try to reinstall, I get errors. Below is the initial error report in case that's helpful.

ERROR SUMMARY

Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.

* Activation of C:\Users\(my username)\(...)SoundTypist.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:

+ Exception occurred during store operation.

+ The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070020)

bkjames002 years ago (1 edit)

Also, in your README you state ' Settings are now saved to the registry rather than to a settings file, for compatibilty with the start at login option.'

Would this mean that the app edited my registry and so I need to find where and change it?

andyman4042 years ago (1 edit)

Try this:

1. Open up the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl-alt-delete -> Task Manager).

2. In the processes, find Sound Typist, right click -> End Task, and wait a moment for it to die.

3. Download and run the PORTABLE version.

4. With the systray icon (or if the orange app window comes up), toggle the Start Sound Typist at Login OFF, ON, OFF to make sure it turns it off.

5. Reboot, and it should no longer turn on.

Alternatively, the registry settings are here:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SoundTypist\SoundTypist

- You'll want to set hidden to False so that it shows the orange app window, and startOnLogin to false also.

You shouldn't need to do this, but to manually remove it from starting at login, edit this registry:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

- Delete the SoundTypist entry in that registry

bkjames002 years ago

Thank you for the detailed instructions. If I had been more patient, I could try them out. However, I ended up doing a system restore to a date prior to install. I will plan to install the portable version instead. Hopefully, this will be helpful to others in the future if they run into similar issues. Cheers!

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