Guest PSiegmann@mail.nu Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 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.
Guest Dale Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: Changing audio volume causes a beep 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. -- Dale Beckett
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