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Hi newsgroup.

 

There is an annoyance with XP, that I noticed already years ago.. but

I never decided to to something about it. Until now.

 

OK: when you change the volume level (with sndvol32.exe) of the

general channel (not wave, sw-synthesizer etc. but the one the far

left), it will cause a "beep" of the system speaker. Of course,

everything works ok, and I noticed that not only on this PC, it seems

to be by design.

 

That behavior never occured with earlier windows versions.

 

So, how to turn that beep off? It's very distracting.

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    said....

    > Hi newsgroup.

    >

    > There is an annoyance with XP, that I noticed already years ago.. but

    > I never decided to to something about it. Until now.

    >

    > OK: when you change the volume level (with sndvol32.exe) of the

    > general channel (not wave, sw-synthesizer etc. but the one the far

    > left), it will cause a "beep" of the system speaker. Of course,

    > everything works ok, and I noticed that not only on this PC, it seems

    > to be by design.

    >

    > That behavior never occured with earlier windows versions.

    >

    > So, how to turn that beep off? It's very distracting.

    >

    >

     

    That beep is supposed to be a wav sound, to give you an indication of your

    volume level. Go to Control Panel/Sounds and look at "Default Beep." You

    probably have no sound assigned to it, or a sound that no longer exists.

    This will cause the system speaker to beep instead.

     

     

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    Dale Beckett

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