title: How to play a standard windows sound?
body: <p>How do I find out which sound files the user has configured in the control panel?</p>
  
  <p>Example: I want to play the sound for "Device connected".</p>
  
  <p>Which API can be used to query the control panel sound settings?</p>
  
  <p>I see that there are some custom entries made by third party programs in the control panel dialog, so there has to be a way for these programs to communicate with the global sound settings.</p>
  
  <p>Edit: Thank you. I did not know that PlaySound also just played appropriate sound file when specifying the name of the registry entry.</p>
  
  <p>To play the "Device Conntected" sound:</p>
  
  <pre><code>::PlaySound( TEXT("DeviceConnect"), NULL, SND_ALIAS|SND_ASYNC );
  </code></pre>