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Determining what's causing a certain system sound

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Running Windows 2000 Pro SP2, and I'm hearing certain system sounds. I just went through all the sounds in Control Panel, Sounds and Multimedia and the only one that sounds remotely like the one I'm hearing occasionally is the New Mail Notification, but I have that turned off in my email program. How do I figure out what's triggering the sound? Thanks for the help.
 
Wow.... that's a new one one me. And a challenging one, to boot! 🙂

I can think of a couple things you might be able to do.

First, use Media Player or some other .wav player to identify the file on your hard drive that's being played. Try renaming it and see if an application throws an error dialog box.

I'm not too confident that will work.

If it doesn't, grab HandleEx or FileMon from www.sysinternals.com and use one of those tools to determine which process is accessing that file.

It's possible, however, that the .wav sound isn't actually a separate file on disk. It's possible to embed .wav sounds into a comiled binary as a resource. If this is the case, it would take a lot of detective work to find the culprit. Start by using Task Manager to get a list of all running processes, and go from there.

Good luck, and let us know what you find!

-Noggin
 
Originally posted by: NogginBoink
Wow.... that's a new one one me. And a challenging one, to boot! 🙂

I can think of a couple things you might be able to do.

First, use Media Player or some other .wav player to identify the file on your hard drive that's being played. Try renaming it and see if an application throws an error dialog box.

I'm not too confident that will work.

If it doesn't, grab HandleEx or FileMon from www.sysinternals.com and use one of those tools to determine which process is accessing that file.

It's possible, however, that the .wav sound isn't actually a separate file on disk. It's possible to embed .wav sounds into a comiled binary as a resource. If this is the case, it would take a lot of detective work to find the culprit. Start by using Task Manager to get a list of all running processes, and go from there.

Good luck, and let us know what you find!

-Noggin
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I'm not positive, but I think the file that's being played is WINNT\media\Utopia Asterisk.wav I can do as you suggest and rename this file and lie in wait to see if an error message pops up. I haven't heard the sound the last hour or two, but if I do, and it's Utopia Asterisk.wav, I'll try this. First I want to make sure that's the file. Thanks for the ideas.
 
I'm not sure what's playing but I think it's either notify.wav or Utopia Asterisk.wav. I will see next time it plays, I hope. I have a newish program (for me), Mailwasher, and it's configured to notify me when new mail arrives and I think it's probably that. If that's it, I'll just turn that option off - it's a checkbox. Yep, that's it!
 
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