Guest Paul Posted May 20, 2008 Posted May 20, 2008 I wondered why I wasn't getting audio notification of new email, so I went to Start->Settings->ControlPanel->SoundsAndMultimediaProperties- >Sounds->SoundEvents. I clicked on NewMailNotification and Exclamation. I got the messages chime.wav and chord.wav cannot be found, then the speaker icons disappeared from beside those two items. I wanted to avoid making any more speaker icons disappear, so I didn't click on any more items. I also searched C-drive for those wav files, but they could not be found. I have since found that new mail does indeed sound a beep, due to options set in outlook. So I probably just didn't hear it before. However, appointment and meeting reminders pop up silently. This is not ideal, since I could be reading, and hence not looking at the screen. Does the NewMailNotification do nothing? It seems that this option is controlled from Outlook. 1. I assume that the wav files are defaults -- is this true? If so, is it abnormal for them to be absent? 2. The Exclamation item sounds important, like Windows warning you that you did something dumb. Is this the case? 3. Are meeting/appointment reminders suppose to be silent? Is there a way to add an audio notification? Thanks.
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