Forced Sound

I haven't checked lately, but Microsoft used to have a utility called speak which directed sound events to the PC speaker.

The sound is pretty bad, but it does function.
It will work better on PCs with actual speakers than those with the little Piezo devices.

Microsoft still has the utility, and a knowledge base article to boot.
The article number is Q138857.
Here is a link.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q138857&FinishURL=%2Fdownloads%2Frelease%2Easp%3FReleaseID%3D14048%26LangID%3D20%26LangDIR%3Den%2Dus%26OpSysID%3D1311%26Search%3DKeywords%26Value%3Dspeak%26Show%3DAlpha%26Start%3D%26Page%3D0%26redirect%3Dno

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Chas