Annoying beep

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Buffalo

Is there anyway I can stop the beeper sounding when I do something wrong,
such as trying to move the cursor upwards in Wordpad when it's already at
the top of the file. Or can I at least turn the volume down? (I can't see
any volume control on my newly acquired machine.) Waiting for that hooter to
go off is driving me nuts.

Buffalo
 
Hi

Try this:

Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices - and then the Sounds tab. Scroll
down the list and uncheck whatever associations you want to.

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| Is there anyway I can stop the beeper sounding when I do something wrong,
| such as trying to move the cursor upwards in Wordpad when it's already at
| the top of the file. Or can I at least turn the volume down? (I can't see
| any volume control on my newly acquired machine.) Waiting for that hooter
to
| go off is driving me nuts.
|
| Buffalo
|
|
 
| Is there anyway I can stop the beeper sounding when I do something wrong,
| such as trying to move the cursor upwards in Wordpad when it's already at
| the top of the file. Or can I at least turn the volume down? (I can't see
| any volume control on my newly acquired machine.) Waiting for that hooter
to
| go off is driving me nuts.
Click to expand...
Try this:

Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices - and then the Sounds tab. Scroll
down the list and uncheck whatever associations you want to.
Click to expand...

In the Sounds and Audio Devices Properties, clicking on the "Volume" tab
tells me that there are "No Audio Devices". (Obviously a beeper doesn't
count as an audio device.) So I can't turn the volume down. Under "Sounds"
there is a long list of associations, but I do not know, for example, which
of those is responsible for causing the beeper to sound when my cursor tries
to make an illegal move in Wordpad. Any idea?
 
If you can't find anything where you say you are looking the the beep you
are hearing is, probably, coming from the speaker built into the case and
you can't turn that one off.
 
In Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices, where it says "Program Events",
highlight "Critical Stop". In the box that says "Sounds", click on the
check next to the name of the sound. You will get a drop-down box -- scroll
all the way to the top and select " (None) " . Do this for each Program
Event in the list.


steve
 
joust in jest said:
In Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices, where it says "Program Events",
highlight "Critical Stop". In the box that says "Sounds", click on the
check next to the name of the sound. You will get a drop-down box -- scroll
all the way to the top and select " (None) " . Do this for each Program
Event in the list.


steve
Click to expand...

Under the tab "Sounds" in the "Program Events" the one that is responsible
for your cursor's illegal move in Wordpad is named "Standard sound" or
"Default sound" (or maybe something else, I'm translating it from Dutch to
English), the name of the file is "Windows XP Ding.wav". Select that to
"(None)" and you will not hear it anymore in Wordpad.
Anyway you can hear an example of each sound by pushing the button ">" just
on the right side of the Sounds-box at the bottom of the window.
 
joust in jest said:
In Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices, where it says "Program Events",
highlight "Critical Stop". In the box that says "Sounds", click on the
check next to the name of the sound. You will get a drop-down box -- scroll
all the way to the top and select " (None) " . Do this for each Program
Event in the list.
Click to expand...

I've selected None for every item in Program Events. It hasn't made a blind
bit of difference. Every condition that caused the thing to hoot at me
before is still having the same effect. New email arrives - it hoots. Try an
illegal move in Wordpad - it hoots. Look at it in a funny way - it hoots.

rjb
 
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