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?
The sound failed a while back for no apparent reason, no new hardware, possibly new software. I installed a pci sound card it worked fine. I just installed a pctv card in the slot my sound occupied. I have tv and no sound. I have updated realtec drivers, the device manager says it's working properly, when I open the audio manager it says its sending sound to the speakers.
View 4 Replies View Relatedhere's no (and there was no) audible sound for taskbar notifications (balloons). E.g-in windows update (i set it only to inform me, not download). there is a balloon notification but no sound. sound options are all enable and working other sounds appear i Can hear them. Windows- Balloon.wav" correctly associated with System Notification- and sound test is working. changing between sound schemes also does not help...In XP baloon notif. sound is working but not in my vista...Maybe i'ts vista default behavior?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have no idea what I did but I have a folder on my desktop whose contents now appear to the left of the folder in a kind of veil all the way down the left side of the monitor. My icons that were on the far left are now to the right of those veiled folders located in the folder. I don't know how else to explain it. I absolutely hate Vista. I have never wasted so much time in my life. I see nothing better about it then XP but I spend hours trying find out what I've done without intention. I wish I could have gotten XP and foregone all the silly bells and whistles without paying an additional cost.
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done all the anti-virus/Spybot/reset Internet Explorer tricks that I can
think of.
Brand new Dell came with Vista. Ignore it? Or anyone have hints for fixing
the sound card?
Does anybody know if there is a free software program, that makes a sound whenever you are typing in windows vista? I just like the typewriter sound, and miss it?
View 5 Replies View RelatedSome wonderful site recently visited (don't know which one) has added a nuisance toolbar just above the default one in my Vista Windows Mail. It inserted just under the File, Edit, View, Insert, etc bar and above the toolbar which includes Send, cut, copy, past, etc bar. how to eliminate this nuisance? Right clicking does not gime me any options.
View 4 Replies View RelatedEvery day in my "recently changed" file under "DOCUMENTS" I receive hundreds of unwanted pictures.It seems as if they are snapshots from a tv news show.
View 4 Replies View RelatedOperating system Vista Home Premium 64. Windows sounds suddenly don't play. All I get is a click but no sound.
View 9 Replies View Relatedthe windows sounds like the startup sound and the asterisks etc are not loud enough even at the max volume. The music and video etc. are loud and fine.but the general windows sounds are too low in volume even at max volume.and it recognizes it too because when i set the volume to max in the corner to next to the clock,the green bar fills only 20% or so when it beeps.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy mom changed her theme the other day and now there are no sounds for new messaged received, opening and closing windows, logging in or out, emptying recycle bin...etc. I've tried going into sounds and picking new ones, old ones and nothing works. In sounds where you can "test" a certain sound, nothing plays. It's not the speakers cause music plays just fine. I loaded all the windows media files into windows media player and they work so it's not that. How do I get them to play again?
View 6 Replies View Relatedover the last few months I have been getting unwanted Emails. all of them objectionable,a lot of them bordering on the pornographic. I can receive five or more each day. I send each one to the blacklist but more come from obscure domains and addresses. Examples are:-
@noder99-254.adbtech.it
@emeraldmaterials.com
When I right click on the sound icon in the system tray, it brings up the sounds associated with Windows (Vista Home Premium) actions. However, when I click on the Play icon, the sounds don't play. WAV files on my computer are associated with the Windows Media Player (although I've tried the other available sound players too and the same thing happens - no sound. My sound card seems to work fine and I have the latest driver. If I go directly to Windows>Media and play the sounds, they PLAY!!! I've set all WAV files to play with Windows Media Player. Sometimes the Windows logo, when booting up, plays a sound - but most of the time it doesn't.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedSometime my system sounds work and most of the time they don't. My Device Manager doesn't show any problems. When I right click on the sound icon in the System Tray and click on Sounds, then try the sounds, most of the time they don't work. I have all the latest digitally signed drivers (HP Pavilion laptop). When I go straight to the Sounds folder and try the sounds, they don't work. I don't even know which app is supposed to play these sounds (it might help if I knew in order to solve the problem). I have no viruses or malware in my system. Not sure - but it seems like the system sounds stop working sometime while the system is booted and has been running for a while. Please could someone offer some other things to check or try? What app is supposed to run these sounds? Are there any other sites that might be able to help (or other Newsgroups)? I depend heavily on these sounds working properly so thi sissue is important to me to solve. If I've left out any relative detail,
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have had Vista about month now and I keep getting suggested sites poping up along my toolbar its driving me nuts! These sites are in some relation to what i'm viewing, wasnt there before so must be something i've pressed. Its nothing todo with my popups as there turned off.
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By right clicking an unwanted item, one can hide it, but this does not remove it.
I just installed the new update for the Ultimate Extra Sounds Schemes. When I have one of these new schemes selected as my sounds, when I shut down or reboot my pc, I see a brief black screen with red text and something about explorer.exe not respoding or something. It happens with either of these new sound schemes Glass, or Pearl. When I put if back to default, problem goes away. Nice extra MSFT!
View 9 Replies View Related3 days ago my computer started making very quiet beeping sounds, it happens mostly when I use Mozilla Firefox and Windows Explorer. My impression is that the sound is coming from the motherboard. When I restarted in safe mode the sound disappeared,
so after a very long elimination process I discovered that when I change control panel-power options-processor power management settings the frequency of beeping changes as well. Until now I was using balanced settings (min processor state 5% and max processor state 100%), if I choose high performance (min and max processor state are both 100%) the beeping becomes very frequent almost continuous, and if I choose power saver settings (min processor state 5% and max processor state 50%) I don't notice the beeping anymore but of course I don't want to keep using only 50% of my processor. I am using a desktop computer, not a laptop. Except for the annoying sound the computer works normally. I have Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit SP1.
I am running Vista Home Premium. I have a Windows "New Update" icon sitting in my notification area which I do not want or need. Does anyone no of a way to get rid of this irritation
View 9 Replies View RelatedAfter installing SP1 Media Center started listing the memory card reader slots as 4 drives in both the Video and Pictures libraries. These were never configured to be monitored in either MC or WMP and they weren't being listed in Media Center before SP1 was installed. Is there any way to remove these entries, and other root folders that sometimes show up, from the folders list in the library?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have been using Office 2007 for about a year, and this morning something changed. Historically, when I would designate a mail item for permanent deletion (by hitting shift and delete at the same time), a dialog box would pop up asking me if I was sure that I wanted that item to be permanently deleted. When the dialog box appeared, a sound was made simultaneously. (I believe that if I clicked yes to the question in the dialog box, another sound was made.) Today, for no apparent reason, there are no sounds made. I opened Control Panel and selected "sounds" to see if Outlook was among the programs listed where certain actions within a program are accentuated with sounds, but i see that Outlook is not listed. I restored the Sounds from "modified default" to "Windows Default" and re-started Outlook, but the sound was not restored. Does anyone know how to restore my sounds?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm the admin of this computer and User Account is turned off.... how do I get to uninstall or delete unwanted programs in Vista Home Premium? Why am I still getting the "need permission" error when trying to uninstall programs? Unlocker will not unlock them for removal. My PC is getting full of unwanted software thanks to all these confusing poorly designed MS safety features.
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View 7 Replies View RelatedSo I am goofy and want my Vista Ultimate to play my own wav files instead of the ones it came with. but they simply don't play at all. I have done everything I know how to get this to work. I go to control panel sounds and the sound tab and have put the .wav files i want to use into the C:/Windows/Media folder and am able to select them through the sound menu... but the test option plays nothing for my wavs and it doesnt do anything when the system is supposed to make said sound...
I even checked all the properties to make sure they were the same the only differance I can see is that the sound files that work are owned by the system and the ones that dont are owned by administraitor. I do know how to change the ownership of files through the properties menu but even in Administraitor mode there is no option for system... I do not however think that it is the cause... is it that vista just doesnt want you using your own sound files?
how to remove some unwanted jpg from my hard dirve? They reside at ; c:UsersWhoeverAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindows Mailews.usenethost.com (3)alt.binaries.Whatever My probelm is that I can't find the AppData, or any of the subsequent files. In any case, the option to delete these files after I've done a search for jpg is not available.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI know someone whom is running Windows Vista but from time to time gets internet explorer windows popping up to various sites which we're not interested in. However I have a computer which is almost exactly the same and on mine it does not happen. How can we prevent these windows from popping up when we don't want them to. Is there a tojan or some virus somewhere that causes these windows to load? The computer even has McAfee antivirus software installed. How can I fix this problem besides reinstalling Windows Vista Home Premium from scratch and hoping it fixes the problem?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI stupidly tried installing the NV Sys Tools from nVidia's website as shown in the pic below as I meet the system requirments.
It didn't work so uninstalled but an annoying shortcut leading nowhere is still installed in my Control Panel Classic View (see pic #2) and I have tried getting rid of it using a combination of System Restore & regedit to no avail.
So recently I went into msconfig to disable unwanted startup programs. However I noticed one file that stands out and I'm not sure if it spyware or something else that could be a threat. MAagent.exe is in the start up tab and the description for the file is in korean. I tried googling the file and there was nothing I could find about it.
View 7 Replies View RelatedInstalled Service Pack 1 for Vista regular edition and now when I play Halo all the sounds have reverb on them. How do I get rid of this?
View 7 Replies View Relatedi noticed a performance drop with vista 64 so i had a snoop around in task manager checked unwanted services etc only 2 notice it see's 1 cpu core for my pentium d 2.80 ? ive tried a re-installing and un-installing the cpu in device manager with only 1 core installed each time even thoe it knows what cpu model it has installed ?
I've checked the bios which has 2 cores counted, ive even updated my bios anyway and tried re-installing in device manager again, ive also updated my chipset drivers no luck there and ive googled away all day 2 find a solution but all i get is amd vista problems ? ive tried scanning for hardware changes the lot and i can not find any updates from micrsoft and asus(mobo) about this
