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"Winston Smith, American Patriot"
wrote in news:Xns99BFAA5881C5CWSAP2006@ :

> IB wrote in :
>
>> "Winston Smith, American Patriot"
>> wrote in news:Xns99BF5DD1430F0WSAP2006@ :
>>
>>>
>>> This belongs in the category of "Going Nuts Quickly Or Slowly."
>>>
>>> I have been using XNews for years and never had it beep at me when
>>> clicking on a message.
>>>
>>> Now it is beeping at every message when I open it, and it is driving
>>> me insane.
>>>
>>> I have looked at Setup and can find nothing that shows an option of
>>> beeping at every message being opened. Now sound files are even
>>> entered into the text boxes of Setup->Files->Sounds.
>>
>> 1) Right click on the sound icon in the tray
>>
>> 2) Choose Open Volume Mixer
>>
>> 3) Below the XNews volume control, click sound icon to mute.
>>
>> This works until your audio driver is updated, then you might haver
>> to do this again. So far I have had to reset only once due to updated
>> audio drivers.
>
> So the system sound "filter" (mixer) is silencing the application's
> beep, right?
>
> So why is the application (XNews) even sending a beep? It didn't do
> this in XP, did it?
>
> Or is this Vista trying to find ways to test the limits of user
> sanity?

I'm sorry, I can't tell you why the beeping happens, only the way I
learned to make it stop. No, it never happened in XP, and yes, Vista
more than tests one's sanity.