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Migrate from C# to C++ and update docs
Replaces the original C# implementation with a new C++ version.
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‎DisableStartupDelay.reg‎

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‎README.md‎

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# System Sound Player
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**A small C# program that will restore the logon, logoff, system start, and system exit program events in Windows 10.**
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**A tiny program to restore logon, logoff, system start, and system exit sounds in modern versions of Windows.**
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In Windows 10, Microsoft removed the ability for the operating system to play a sound when locking or unlocking a session, as well as when logging on or logging off. This program will help you get these features back, because like everything the Shell Team at Microsoft does, the removal was only half-assed.
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Microsoft removed the ability for the operating system to play a sound when locking or unlocking a session, as well as when logging on or logging off. This program will help you get these features back, because like everything the Windows Shell Team at Microsoft does, the removal was only half-assed.
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What was removed in Windows 10 was the ability for the operating system to actually play back a configured sound file. This was supposedly because they had optimized startup and shutdown so much that they couldn't get the sounds to play reliably anymore. However, the ability to set a sound file via the control panel still exists and has just been hidden.
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What was actually removed was the ability for the operating system to play a configured sound file. This was supposedly because they had optimized startup and shutdown so much that they couldn't get the sounds to play reliably anymore. However, the ability to set a sound file via the Control Panel still exists and was just hidden.
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## How to Use
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1. Put `soundrestore.exe` in a central location, like your Windows directory
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1. Put a shortcut to `soundrestore.exe` in your Startup folder
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1. Put `soundrestore.exe` in `C:\Windows\`
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1. Use the `SetTaskman.reg` to start the program as early as possible after signing in to Windows
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1. Use the `RestoreSoundEvents.reg` file to unhide the program events for "Windows Logon", "Windows Logoff", "Exit Windows" and "Start Windows" (you need to do this once for every user if you have multiple user accounts)
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1. Optional: use the `DisableStartupDelay.reg` to make the sound play as early as possible after logging on (you need to do this once for every user if you have multiple user accounts)
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1. Configure the sounds that you want to play using the Control Panel
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1. Launch the shortcut manually once (or reboot)
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The All Users Startup folder is located at `C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup`, and the current user's Startup folder is located at `C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup`.
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You can use the `HideSoundEvents.reg` file if you want to hide the abovementioned program events again. You can use the `RestoreStartupDelay.reg` file to restore the default Windows 10 startup delay.
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## When Program Events are Played
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|Event|When Played|
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|---|---|
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|Windows Logon|Session is unlocked|
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|Windows Logoff|Session is locked (Win+L) or "Switch user" command|
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|Exit Windows|Shut down, restart, sign out (anything that ends your session)|
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|Start Windows|When `soundrestore.exe` is launched, so if you put it in the Startup folder it will play when starting your session|
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It is absolutely pathetic that you need to use a third-party program like this one to do such a simple thing but here we are...
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# Why?
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## Windows 10 Has No Soul
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![](https://i.ibb.co/Cbw576Y/W10-Laptop-Start-Mini-Start-16x9-en-US-042315.png)
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After you install Windows 10, you're greeted by a dark and cold environment along with a start menu that is basically a giant advertisement board. It feels very much like a dark and lonely subway station. It isn't welcoming at all and makes you want to leave as quickly as possible.
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My solution for this was to run some custom-made scripts that remove essentially all safely removable modern apps. I also use Windows 10 Enterprise so that I can apply a few hundred Group Policies that make the operating system largely stop spying on me. They also make it a whole lot less annoying to use.
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But it still feels dark and cold.
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## Windows Used to be Fun
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![](https://i.ibb.co/D19Gr94/Annotation-2020-10-16-150202.jpg)
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Remember Windows 98? Yes, it wasn't exactly what people would consider a technological marvel. It would crash daily due to bad drivers and badly written software, and when it crashed, it showed no mercy and usually took down everything with it.
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Putting the daily crashes aside for a moment, Windows 98 did at least feel a little bit like it had a *soul*. Call me nostalgic, but I think it tried hard to be friendly and welcoming operating system that you could take seriously. It tried to help you get things done as good as it could.
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I tried to extract some Plus! 98 themes and apply them to Windows 10. If you put the effort in, you can actually still customize everything from the wallpaper and colors right down to the desktop icons, mouse pointers and sounds. That's part of what made the themes fun back in the day. But since Microsoft's Shell Team decided that Windows 10 isn't supposed to be fun, I had to resort to writing this small program to get some of the fun back.
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1. Configure the sounds that you want to play using the Control Panel (hint: Press <kbd>Windows</kbd> + <kbd>R</kbd> on your keyboard, type `control mmsys.cpl`, and press Enter)
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1. Reboot
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> [!CAUTION]
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> The [Taskman registry key](https://www.geoffchappell.com/notes/windows/shell/explorer/taskman.htm) is fairly obscure. Some anti-virus programs may flag setting it as suspicious. You can verify that `SetTaskman.reg` is not doing anything malicious by examining its contents with a text editor.
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>
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> Likewise, `soundrestore.exe` is a tiny program that lacks a digital signature, doesn't have an icon, and doesn't include any file version information. This makes it look scary to "AI-powered" or "cloud-enhanced" security software. If you don't trust me, grab a copy of Visual Studio and compile the code yourself.
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## When Program Events Are Played
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| Event | When Played |
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|-------|-------------|
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| Windows Logon | Session is unlocked (e.g., after entering password) |
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| Windows Logoff | Session is locked (<kbd>Windows</kbd> + <kbd>L</kbd>) or "Switch user" is selected |
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| Exit Windows | System shuts down, restarts, or user signs out |
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| Start Windows | At session startup, triggered by the Task Scheduler task |
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It is absolutely pathetic that you need to use a third-party program like this one to do such a simple thing, but alas, such is the state of modern Windows.

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‎src/soundrestore.cpp‎

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#include <windows.h>
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#include <mmsystem.h>
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#include <wtsapi32.h>
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#pragma comment(lib, "kernel32.lib")
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#pragma comment(lib, "user32.lib")
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#pragma comment(lib, "winmm.lib")
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#pragma comment(lib, "wtsapi32.lib")
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/* Microsoft:
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*
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* ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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*
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* As part of speeding up logon, logoff, shutdown, we experiment a lot
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* with what process is in control of the startup and shutdown sounds.
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* In an interim build of Windows 8 we were able to speed things up
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* considerably by moving the shutdown sound from Explorer.exe (which
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* is running while you’re still logged on) to logonui.exe (which
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* is the thing that shows the “Shutting down” circle.)
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*
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* However moving the shutdown sound this late started running into
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* other problems. The code we use to play the sound (PlaySound) needs
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* to read from the registry (to see what the preferences for this
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* sound were) and from the disk (to read the .wav file), and we ran
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* into issues where the sound was unable to play (or got cutoff
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* halfway) because we had shut down the registry or the disk already!
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*
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* We could have spent time rewriting the API but we decided the safest
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* and most performant thing to do was to eliminate the sound altogether.
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*
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* TLDR: We could have kept the sounds, but weren't competent enough to
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* do it, so we decided to just kill the feature.
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* Putting aside the fact that the WAV file could've been loaded into
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* memory earlier, and that the registry settings could've been cached,
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* just keeping all of the existing and working code to play the sound
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* inside Explorer would have cost nothing.
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*/
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static LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProc(HWND hWnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) {
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switch (uMsg) {
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case WM_WTSSESSION_CHANGE:
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if (wParam == WTS_SESSION_LOCK)
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PlaySoundW(L"WindowsLogoff", NULL, SND_ALIAS | SND_SYSTEM | SND_ASYNC);
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else if (wParam == WTS_SESSION_UNLOCK)
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PlaySoundW(L"WindowsLogon", NULL, SND_ALIAS | SND_SYSTEM | SND_ASYNC);
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return 0;
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case WM_QUERYENDSESSION:
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return TRUE;
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case WM_ENDSESSION:
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if (wParam) {
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ShutdownBlockReasonCreate(hWnd, L"Playing shutdown sound");
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// We do not use SND_ASYNC here to block the thread
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PlaySoundW(L"SystemExit", NULL, SND_ALIAS | SND_SYSTEM | SND_SYNC);
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ShutdownBlockReasonDestroy(hWnd);
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PostQuitMessage(0);
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}
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return 0;
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case WM_DESTROY:
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PostQuitMessage(0);
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return 0;
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default:
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return DefWindowProcW(hWnd, uMsg, wParam, lParam);
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}
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}
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extern "C" void __cdecl Entry() {
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HANDLE hMutex = CreateMutexW(NULL, TRUE, L"sndrst_d3f9ae65");
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if (GetLastError() == ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS) {
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if (hMutex) CloseHandle(hMutex);
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ExitProcess(0);
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}
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WNDCLASSEXW wc;
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wc.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEXW);
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wc.style = 0;
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wc.lpfnWndProc = WindowProc;
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wc.cbClsExtra = 0;
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wc.cbWndExtra = 0;
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wc.hInstance = GetModuleHandleW(NULL);
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wc.hIcon = NULL;
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wc.hCursor = NULL;
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wc.hbrBackground = NULL;
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wc.lpszMenuName = NULL;
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wc.lpszClassName = L"DummyForm";
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wc.hIconSm = NULL;
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RegisterClassExW(&wc);
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HWND hWnd = CreateWindowExW(WS_EX_NOACTIVATE, L"DummyForm", L"System Sound Player", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, wc.hInstance, NULL);
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if (!hWnd) {
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if (hMutex) CloseHandle(hMutex);
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ExitProcess(0);
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}
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ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_HIDE);
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WTSRegisterSessionNotification(hWnd, NOTIFY_FOR_THIS_SESSION);
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PlaySoundW(L"SystemStart", NULL, SND_ALIAS | SND_ASYNC);
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MSG msg;
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while (GetMessageW(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) {
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TranslateMessage(&msg);
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DispatchMessageW(&msg);
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}
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WTSUnRegisterSessionNotification(hWnd);
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if (hMutex) CloseHandle(hMutex);
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ExitProcess(0);
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}

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