Unwanted Sounds

[Ed O'Brien]

Windows Vista Home Premium. IE7. Office 2007

Peculiar sounds annoy me so I have set 'Sounds' to virtually nil using
Control Panel/Sounds and disabling all the Windows boings and beeps and
saved the setting as "My own".

However, I keep getting the odd boing, burp and beep, such as when closing a
programme after pasting something and closing E7.

Is there somewhere else I should look to stop these irritants?

TIA or any help.

Ed

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
Look at programs (security, privacy, etc) which load at startup and run in
the background. Look in the System Tray for these programs and run MSCONFIG
((Start > Run> (type in) msconfig)) > Startup tab. Check these programs for
options to make a sound when a particular action occurs.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

 

[Ed O'Brien]

Thanks, Don.

I have set Startup for just a small hand-full of programmes, none of which
make a sound. I also tested each sound in "Sound" to find the most
irritating 'boing' and searched for *.wav and checked out all of those -
nearly 1,000 - also without finding the culprits!

Any other suggestions will be gratefully accepted.

Ed

Hi,
Look at programs (security, privacy, etc) which load at startup and run in
the background. Look in the System Tray for these programs and run
MSCONFIG
((Start > Run> (type in) msconfig)) > Startup tab. Check these programs
for
options to make a sound when a particular action occurs.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Windows Vista Home Premium. IE7. Office 2007

Peculiar sounds annoy me so I have set 'Sounds' to virtually nil using
Control Panel/Sounds and disabling all the Windows boings and beeps and
saved the setting as "My own".

However, I keep getting the odd boing, burp and beep, such as when
closing a
programme after pasting something and closing E7.

Is there somewhere else I should look to stop these irritants?

TIA or any help.

Ed

 

[Donald Anadell]

Thanks, Don.

I have set Startup for just a small hand-full of programmes, none of which
make a sound. I also tested each sound in "Sound" to find the most
irritating 'boing' and searched for *.wav and checked out all of those -
nearly 1,000 - also without finding the culprits!

Any other suggestions will be gratefully accepted.

You can use the Sysinternals utility Process Monitor to try and track down
the process that is emitting the sound.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Good luck,

Donald Anadell

Ed

Hi,
Look at programs (security, privacy, etc) which load at startup and run
in
the background. Look in the System Tray for these programs and run
MSCONFIG
((Start > Run> (type in) msconfig)) > Startup tab. Check these programs
for
options to make a sound when a particular action occurs.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Windows Vista Home Premium. IE7. Office 2007

Peculiar sounds annoy me so I have set 'Sounds' to virtually nil using
Control Panel/Sounds and disabling all the Windows boings and beeps and
saved the setting as "My own".

However, I keep getting the odd boing, burp and beep, such as when
closing a
programme after pasting something and closing E7.

Is there somewhere else I should look to stop these irritants?

TIA or any help.

Ed

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

One hears that Beano's pretty effective, Ed.

 

[Ed O'Brien]

Sorry to be so long coming back, Donald.

I have downloaded Process Monitor and at 64% and around 500,000 entries into
it it looks like being another half hour to run. I really want to get rid of
these noises, but frankly, how am I to locate a noise?

Ed

Thanks, Don.

I have set Startup for just a small hand-full of programmes, none of
which make a sound. I also tested each sound in "Sound" to find the most
irritating 'boing' and searched for *.wav and checked out all of those -
nearly 1,000 - also without finding the culprits!

Any other suggestions will be gratefully accepted.

You can use the Sysinternals utility Process Monitor to try and track down
the process that is emitting the sound.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Good luck,

Donald Anadell

Ed

Hi,
Look at programs (security, privacy, etc) which load at startup and run
in
the background. Look in the System Tray for these programs and run
MSCONFIG
((Start > Run> (type in) msconfig)) > Startup tab. Check these programs
for
options to make a sound when a particular action occurs.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Windows Vista Home Premium. IE7. Office 2007

Peculiar sounds annoy me so I have set 'Sounds' to virtually nil using
Control Panel/Sounds and disabling all the Windows boings and beeps and
saved the setting as "My own".

However, I keep getting the odd boing, burp and beep, such as when
closing
a
programme after pasting something and closing E7.

Is there somewhere else I should look to stop these irritants?

TIA or any help.

Ed

 

[Ed O'Brien]

Sorry to be so long coming back, Donald.

I have downloaded Process Monitor and at 64% and around 500,000 entries into
it it looks like being another half hour to run. I really want to get rid of
these noises, but frankly, how am I to locate a noise? How would you appoach
it?

Ed

Thanks, Don.

I have set Startup for just a small hand-full of programmes, none of
which make a sound. I also tested each sound in "Sound" to find the most
irritating 'boing' and searched for *.wav and checked out all of those -
nearly 1,000 - also without finding the culprits!

Any other suggestions will be gratefully accepted.

You can use the Sysinternals utility Process Monitor to try and track down
the process that is emitting the sound.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Good luck,

Donald Anadell

Ed

Hi,
Look at programs (security, privacy, etc) which load at startup and run
in
the background. Look in the System Tray for these programs and run
MSCONFIG
((Start > Run> (type in) msconfig)) > Startup tab. Check these programs
for
options to make a sound when a particular action occurs.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Windows Vista Home Premium. IE7. Office 2007

Peculiar sounds annoy me so I have set 'Sounds' to virtually nil using
Control Panel/Sounds and disabling all the Windows boings and beeps and
saved the setting as "My own".

However, I keep getting the odd boing, burp and beep, such as when
closing
a
programme after pasting something and closing E7.

Is there somewhere else I should look to stop these irritants?

TIA or any help.

Ed

 

[Ed O'Brien]

Thanks, PA... I fell for it.

Ed

One hears that Beano's pretty effective, Ed.

 

[Donald Anadell]

Sorry to be so long coming back, Donald.

I have downloaded Process Monitor and at 64% and around 500,000 entries
into it it looks like being another half hour to run. I really want to get
rid of these noises, but frankly, how am I to locate a noise?

If you have a certain set of sequences that produces the unknown sound on
your machine, then start Process Monitor and go through that sequence.

Once you've produced the sound, then stop capturing in Process Monitor by
hitting CTRL + E and it will stop capturing events.

Then use the search function in Process Monitor(Edit||Find) to search for
any reference the .wav file in the captured events.

Good luck,

Donald Anadell

Ed

Thanks, Don.

I have set Startup for just a small hand-full of programmes, none of
which make a sound. I also tested each sound in "Sound" to find the most
irritating 'boing' and searched for *.wav and checked out all of those -
nearly 1,000 - also without finding the culprits!

Any other suggestions will be gratefully accepted.

You can use the Sysinternals utility Process Monitor to try and track
down the process that is emitting the sound.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Good luck,

Donald Anadell

Ed







"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
Hi,
Look at programs (security, privacy, etc) which load at startup and run
in
the background. Look in the System Tray for these programs and run
MSCONFIG
((Start > Run> (type in) msconfig)) > Startup tab. Check these programs
for
options to make a sound when a particular action occurs.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Windows Vista Home Premium. IE7. Office 2007

Peculiar sounds annoy me so I have set 'Sounds' to virtually nil using
Control Panel/Sounds and disabling all the Windows boings and beeps
and
saved the setting as "My own".

However, I keep getting the odd boing, burp and beep, such as when
closing
a
programme after pasting something and closing E7.

Is there somewhere else I should look to stop these irritants?

TIA or any help.

Ed

 

[Ed O'Brien]

Thank you, Donald.

I'll try all that.

Ed

Sorry to be so long coming back, Donald.

I have downloaded Process Monitor and at 64% and around 500,000 entries
into it it looks like being another half hour to run. I really want to
get rid of these noises, but frankly, how am I to locate a noise?

If you have a certain set of sequences that produces the unknown sound on
your machine, then start Process Monitor and go through that sequence.

Once you've produced the sound, then stop capturing in Process Monitor by
hitting CTRL + E and it will stop capturing events.

Then use the search function in Process Monitor(Edit||Find) to search for
any reference the .wav file in the captured events.

Good luck,

Donald Anadell

Ed

Thanks, Don.

I have set Startup for just a small hand-full of programmes, none of
which make a sound. I also tested each sound in "Sound" to find the
most irritating 'boing' and searched for *.wav and checked out all of
those - nearly 1,000 - also without finding the culprits!

Any other suggestions will be gratefully accepted.

You can use the Sysinternals utility Process Monitor to try and track
down the process that is emitting the sound.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Good luck,

Donald Anadell



Ed







"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
Hi,
Look at programs (security, privacy, etc) which load at startup and
run in
the background. Look in the System Tray for these programs and run
MSCONFIG
((Start > Run> (type in) msconfig)) > Startup tab. Check these
programs for
options to make a sound when a particular action occurs.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Windows Vista Home Premium. IE7. Office 2007

Peculiar sounds annoy me so I have set 'Sounds' to virtually nil
using
Control Panel/Sounds and disabling all the Windows boings and beeps
and
saved the setting as "My own".

However, I keep getting the odd boing, burp and beep, such as when
closing
a
programme after pasting something and closing E7.

Is there somewhere else I should look to stop these irritants?

TIA or any help.

Ed

 

[Ed O'Brien]

Well, Donald, I tried all processes several times, including purposely
creating a sound but found no reference to a .wav file. I tried searching
*.wav. in all processes and got no results in any. I guess individual sound
files are not logged as such. Using Clipmate I found the file and the usual
reference, \blobtxt.idx : \blobblob.idx : \blobblob.blb, which are the
storing of data, yet nowhere does it refer to the "bop!" one gets when
copying.

Any suggestions?

Ed

Sorry to be so long coming back, Donald.

I have downloaded Process Monitor and at 64% and around 500,000 entries
into it it looks like being another half hour to run. I really want to
get rid of these noises, but frankly, how am I to locate a noise?

If you have a certain set of sequences that produces the unknown sound on
your machine, then start Process Monitor and go through that sequence.

Once you've produced the sound, then stop capturing in Process Monitor by
hitting CTRL + E and it will stop capturing events.

Then use the search function in Process Monitor(Edit||Find) to search for
any reference the .wav file in the captured events.

Good luck,

Donald Anadell

Ed

Thanks, Don.

I have set Startup for just a small hand-full of programmes, none of
which make a sound. I also tested each sound in "Sound" to find the
most irritating 'boing' and searched for *.wav and checked out all of
those - nearly 1,000 - also without finding the culprits!

Any other suggestions will be gratefully accepted.

You can use the Sysinternals utility Process Monitor to try and track
down the process that is emitting the sound.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Good luck,

Donald Anadell



Ed







"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
Hi,
Look at programs (security, privacy, etc) which load at startup and
run in
the background. Look in the System Tray for these programs and run
MSCONFIG
((Start > Run> (type in) msconfig)) > Startup tab. Check these
programs for
options to make a sound when a particular action occurs.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Windows Vista Home Premium. IE7. Office 2007

Peculiar sounds annoy me so I have set 'Sounds' to virtually nil
using
Control Panel/Sounds and disabling all the Windows boings and beeps
and
saved the setting as "My own".

However, I keep getting the odd boing, burp and beep, such as when
closing
a
programme after pasting something and closing E7.

Is there somewhere else I should look to stop these irritants?

TIA or any help.

Ed

 

[Donald Anadell]

Well, Donald, I tried all processes several times, including purposely
creating a sound but found no reference to a .wav file. I tried searching
*.wav. in all processes and got no results in any. I guess individual
sound files are not logged as such. Using Clipmate I found the file and
the usual reference, \blobtxt.idx : \blobblob.idx : \blobblob.blb,
which are the storing of data, yet nowhere does it refer to the "bop!" one
gets when copying.

Any suggestions?

Don't use the wild card(*) in you search criteria, just search for .wav
only.

Donald Anadell

Ed

Sorry to be so long coming back, Donald.

I have downloaded Process Monitor and at 64% and around 500,000 entries
into it it looks like being another half hour to run. I really want to
get rid of these noises, but frankly, how am I to locate a noise?

If you have a certain set of sequences that produces the unknown sound on
your machine, then start Process Monitor and go through that sequence.

Once you've produced the sound, then stop capturing in Process Monitor by
hitting CTRL + E and it will stop capturing events.

Then use the search function in Process Monitor(Edit||Find) to search for
any reference the .wav file in the captured events.

Good luck,

Donald Anadell

Ed



Thanks, Don.

I have set Startup for just a small hand-full of programmes, none of
which make a sound. I also tested each sound in "Sound" to find the
most irritating 'boing' and searched for *.wav and checked out all of
those - nearly 1,000 - also without finding the culprits!

Any other suggestions will be gratefully accepted.

You can use the Sysinternals utility Process Monitor to try and track
down the process that is emitting the sound.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Good luck,

Donald Anadell



Ed







"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
Hi,
Look at programs (security, privacy, etc) which load at startup and
run in
the background. Look in the System Tray for these programs and run
MSCONFIG
((Start > Run> (type in) msconfig)) > Startup tab. Check these
programs for
options to make a sound when a particular action occurs.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Windows Vista Home Premium. IE7. Office 2007

Peculiar sounds annoy me so I have set 'Sounds' to virtually nil
using
Control Panel/Sounds and disabling all the Windows boings and beeps
and
saved the setting as "My own".

However, I keep getting the odd boing, burp and beep, such as when
closing
a
programme after pasting something and closing E7.

Is there somewhere else I should look to stop these irritants?

TIA or any help.

Ed

 

[Ed O'Brien]

Thanks, Donald, will do.

Ed

Well, Donald, I tried all processes several times, including purposely
creating a sound but found no reference to a .wav file. I tried
searching *.wav. in all processes and got no results in any. I guess
individual sound files are not logged as such. Using Clipmate I found the
file and the usual reference, \blobtxt.idx : \blobblob.idx :
\blobblob.blb, which are the storing of data, yet nowhere does it refer
to the "bop!" one gets when copying.

Any suggestions?

Don't use the wild card(*) in you search criteria, just search for .wav
only.

Donald Anadell

Ed

Sorry to be so long coming back, Donald.

I have downloaded Process Monitor and at 64% and around 500,000 entries
into it it looks like being another half hour to run. I really want to
get rid of these noises, but frankly, how am I to locate a noise?

If you have a certain set of sequences that produces the unknown sound
on your machine, then start Process Monitor and go through that
sequence.

Once you've produced the sound, then stop capturing in Process Monitor
by hitting CTRL + E and it will stop capturing events.

Then use the search function in Process Monitor(Edit||Find) to search
for any reference the .wav file in the captured events.

Good luck,

Donald Anadell




Ed



Thanks, Don.

I have set Startup for just a small hand-full of programmes, none of
which make a sound. I also tested each sound in "Sound" to find the
most irritating 'boing' and searched for *.wav and checked out all of
those - nearly 1,000 - also without finding the culprits!

Any other suggestions will be gratefully accepted.

You can use the Sysinternals utility Process Monitor to try and track
down the process that is emitting the sound.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Good luck,

Donald Anadell



Ed







"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
Hi,
Look at programs (security, privacy, etc) which load at startup and
run in
the background. Look in the System Tray for these programs and run
MSCONFIG
((Start > Run> (type in) msconfig)) > Startup tab. Check these
programs for
options to make a sound when a particular action occurs.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Windows Vista Home Premium. IE7. Office 2007

Peculiar sounds annoy me so I have set 'Sounds' to virtually nil
using
Control Panel/Sounds and disabling all the Windows boings and beeps
and
saved the setting as "My own".

However, I keep getting the odd boing, burp and beep, such as when
closing
a
programme after pasting something and closing E7.

Is there somewhere else I should look to stop these irritants?

TIA or any help.

Ed

 

[Ed O'Brien]

Hi, Donald.

Running Pocess Manager only found one file in Sysem32.

Having now checked out every .wav file I can find - about 1,000 - I have
still not found the culprits. Describing a noise is a bit like trying to
describe a colour but the annoying noise is a bit like a warship's horn but
sinking as apposed to rising. eeeeeeeeeYum!!

Do you know of any other file extension Windows, or Office, for that matter,
uses to liven things up?

Ed

Well, Donald, I tried all processes several times, including purposely
creating a sound but found no reference to a .wav file. I tried
searching *.wav. in all processes and got no results in any. I guess
individual sound files are not logged as such. Using Clipmate I found the
file and the usual reference, \blobtxt.idx : \blobblob.idx :
\blobblob.blb, which are the storing of data, yet nowhere does it refer
to the "bop!" one gets when copying.

Any suggestions?

Don't use the wild card(*) in you search criteria, just search for .wav
only.

Donald Anadell

Ed

Sorry to be so long coming back, Donald.

I have downloaded Process Monitor and at 64% and around 500,000 entries
into it it looks like being another half hour to run. I really want to
get rid of these noises, but frankly, how am I to locate a noise?

If you have a certain set of sequences that produces the unknown sound
on your machine, then start Process Monitor and go through that
sequence.

Once you've produced the sound, then stop capturing in Process Monitor
by hitting CTRL + E and it will stop capturing events.

Then use the search function in Process Monitor(Edit||Find) to search
for any reference the .wav file in the captured events.

Good luck,

Donald Anadell




Ed



Thanks, Don.

I have set Startup for just a small hand-full of programmes, none of
which make a sound. I also tested each sound in "Sound" to find the
most irritating 'boing' and searched for *.wav and checked out all of
those - nearly 1,000 - also without finding the culprits!

Any other suggestions will be gratefully accepted.

You can use the Sysinternals utility Process Monitor to try and track
down the process that is emitting the sound.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Good luck,

Donald Anadell



Ed







"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
Hi,
Look at programs (security, privacy, etc) which load at startup and
run in
the background. Look in the System Tray for these programs and run
MSCONFIG
((Start > Run> (type in) msconfig)) > Startup tab. Check these
programs for
options to make a sound when a particular action occurs.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Windows Vista Home Premium. IE7. Office 2007

Peculiar sounds annoy me so I have set 'Sounds' to virtually nil
using
Control Panel/Sounds and disabling all the Windows boings and beeps
and
saved the setting as "My own".

However, I keep getting the odd boing, burp and beep, such as when
closing
a
programme after pasting something and closing E7.

Is there somewhere else I should look to stop these irritants?

TIA or any help.

Ed

 

[Donald Anadell]

Hi, Donald.

Running Pocess Manager only found one file in Sysem32.

Having now checked out every .wav file I can find - about 1,000 - I have
still not found the culprits. Describing a noise is a bit like trying to
describe a colour but the annoying noise is a bit like a warship's horn
but sinking as apposed to rising. eeeeeeeeeYum!!

Do you know of any other file extension Windows, or Office, for that
matter, uses to liven things up?

If the sound is being generated by the Windows Operating System is could
show up in Process Manager under several different processes depending on
how the sound is being generated. Such processes as, winlogon.exe,
Rundll32.exe, wmplayer.exe...etc.

For example if you set the wave file "Windows XP Default.wav" as the default
sound for "Close Program" in the Control Panel, and then close a program
while running Process Manager, you would see an entry in Process Manager
like this:

[winlogon.exe QueryOpen C:\WINDOWS\Media\Windows XP Default.wav SUCCESS]

If you simply double clicked on that file "Windows XP Default.wav" to open
it up in Windows Media Player, you would see an entry in Process Manager
that looked like this:

[wmplayer.exe ReadFile C:\WINDOWS\Media\Windows XP Default.wav SUCCESS]

Notice that in both examples Process Manager shows the Process Name that is
executing the sound file, and lists the Path to the wave file that is being
executed.

Sorry I don't have anything else to offer with regard to this issue.

Donald Anadell

Ed

Well, Donald, I tried all processes several times, including purposely
creating a sound but found no reference to a .wav file. I tried
searching *.wav. in all processes and got no results in any. I guess
individual sound files are not logged as such. Using Clipmate I found
the file and the usual reference, \blobtxt.idx : \blobblob.idx :
\blobblob.blb, which are the storing of data, yet nowhere does it refer
to the "bop!" one gets when copying.

Any suggestions?

Don't use the wild card(*) in you search criteria, just search for .wav
only.

Donald Anadell

Ed




Sorry to be so long coming back, Donald.

I have downloaded Process Monitor and at 64% and around 500,000
entries into it it looks like being another half hour to run. I really
want to get rid of these noises, but frankly, how am I to locate a
noise?

If you have a certain set of sequences that produces the unknown sound
on your machine, then start Process Monitor and go through that
sequence.

Once you've produced the sound, then stop capturing in Process Monitor
by hitting CTRL + E and it will stop capturing events.

Then use the search function in Process Monitor(Edit||Find) to search
for any reference the .wav file in the captured events.

Good luck,

Donald Anadell




Ed



Thanks, Don.

I have set Startup for just a small hand-full of programmes, none of
which make a sound. I also tested each sound in "Sound" to find the
most irritating 'boing' and searched for *.wav and checked out all
of those - nearly 1,000 - also without finding the culprits!

Any other suggestions will be gratefully accepted.

You can use the Sysinternals utility Process Monitor to try and track
down the process that is emitting the sound.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Good luck,

Donald Anadell



Ed







"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
Hi,
Look at programs (security, privacy, etc) which load at startup and
run in
the background. Look in the System Tray for these programs and run
MSCONFIG
((Start > Run> (type in) msconfig)) > Startup tab. Check these
programs for
options to make a sound when a particular action occurs.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

message
Windows Vista Home Premium. IE7. Office 2007

Peculiar sounds annoy me so I have set 'Sounds' to virtually nil
using
Control Panel/Sounds and disabling all the Windows boings and
beeps and
saved the setting as "My own".

However, I keep getting the odd boing, burp and beep, such as when
closing
a
programme after pasting something and closing E7.

Is there somewhere else I should look to stop these irritants?

TIA or any help.

Ed

 

[Ed O'Brien]

Thanks, Donald, and especially thanks, for your patience.

Ed

Hi, Donald.

Running Pocess Manager only found one file in Sysem32.

Having now checked out every .wav file I can find - about 1,000 - I have
still not found the culprits. Describing a noise is a bit like trying to
describe a colour but the annoying noise is a bit like a warship's horn
but sinking as apposed to rising. eeeeeeeeeYum!!

Do you know of any other file extension Windows, or Office, for that
matter, uses to liven things up?

If the sound is being generated by the Windows Operating System is could
show up in Process Manager under several different processes depending on
how the sound is being generated. Such processes as, winlogon.exe,
Rundll32.exe, wmplayer.exe...etc.

For example if you set the wave file "Windows XP Default.wav" as the
default sound for "Close Program" in the Control Panel, and then close a
program while running Process Manager, you would see an entry in Process
Manager like this:

[winlogon.exe QueryOpen C:\WINDOWS\Media\Windows XP Default.wav SUCCESS]

If you simply double clicked on that file "Windows XP Default.wav" to open
it up in Windows Media Player, you would see an entry in Process Manager
that looked like this:

[wmplayer.exe ReadFile C:\WINDOWS\Media\Windows XP Default.wav SUCCESS]

Notice that in both examples Process Manager shows the Process Name that
is executing the sound file, and lists the Path to the wave file that is
being executed.

Sorry I don't have anything else to offer with regard to this issue.

Donald Anadell

Ed

Well, Donald, I tried all processes several times, including purposely
creating a sound but found no reference to a .wav file. I tried
searching *.wav. in all processes and got no results in any. I guess
individual sound files are not logged as such. Using Clipmate I found
the file and the usual reference, \blobtxt.idx : \blobblob.idx :
\blobblob.blb, which are the storing of data, yet nowhere does it refer
to the "bop!" one gets when copying.

Any suggestions?

Don't use the wild card(*) in you search criteria, just search for .wav
only.

Donald Anadell



Ed




Sorry to be so long coming back, Donald.

I have downloaded Process Monitor and at 64% and around 500,000
entries into it it looks like being another half hour to run. I
really want to get rid of these noises, but frankly, how am I to
locate a noise?

If you have a certain set of sequences that produces the unknown sound
on your machine, then start Process Monitor and go through that
sequence.

Once you've produced the sound, then stop capturing in Process Monitor
by hitting CTRL + E and it will stop capturing events.

Then use the search function in Process Monitor(Edit||Find) to search
for any reference the .wav file in the captured events.

Good luck,

Donald Anadell




Ed



Thanks, Don.

I have set Startup for just a small hand-full of programmes, none
of which make a sound. I also tested each sound in "Sound" to find
the most irritating 'boing' and searched for *.wav and checked out
all of those - nearly 1,000 - also without finding the culprits!

Any other suggestions will be gratefully accepted.

You can use the Sysinternals utility Process Monitor to try and
track down the process that is emitting the sound.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Good luck,

Donald Anadell



Ed







"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
Hi,
Look at programs (security, privacy, etc) which load at startup
and run in
the background. Look in the System Tray for these programs and run
MSCONFIG
((Start > Run> (type in) msconfig)) > Startup tab. Check these
programs for
options to make a sound when a particular action occurs.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

message
Windows Vista Home Premium. IE7. Office 2007

Peculiar sounds annoy me so I have set 'Sounds' to virtually nil
using
Control Panel/Sounds and disabling all the Windows boings and
beeps and
saved the setting as "My own".

However, I keep getting the odd boing, burp and beep, such as
when closing
a
programme after pasting something and closing E7.

Is there somewhere else I should look to stop these irritants?

TIA or any help.

Ed