However, most themes just specify the “Windows Default” sound scheme, re-enabling it if you’ve disabled it. That’s because desktop themes can include sound schemes as well as desktop background images, colors, and mouse cursor themes.
This occurs when you change your desktop theme using either the old Control Panel interface on Windows 7 or the new Settings interface on Windows 10. You may find that sound effects automatically re-enable themselves when you customize your desktop.
RELATED: How to Install Desktop Themes on Windows 10 You can then choose your saved sound scheme from the list here in the future. To save your settings as a sound scheme, click the “Save As” button at the top of the window and provide a name. Your custom sound effect file must be in the. To use a custom sound file, click the “Browse” button.
You can click “Test” to hear a preview of the different sound effects here. Select an event and use the “Sounds” box to choose a sound file for it. We will try fixing the issues one by one. Changing the keyboard settings to disable the options such as filter keys, sticky keys, and toggle keys. If you like the sounds instead, you can customize them from here. Keyboard Making Clicking Noise and Not Typing in Windows 10 How to fix Like we stated already, the issue can be resolved through the use of keyboard settings. Click the “Sounds” box at the bottom of the window and select “(None)”. To disable only this sound, scroll down in the list and select the “Start Navigation” sound effect. This particular sound effect is disabled by default on Windows 10, and for good reason. If you’re using Windows 7, you may be particularly annoyed by the sound effect that plays when you navigate to a new folder in Windows Explorer. How to Disable the Windows Explorer Click Sound You can always return here and set the sound scheme back to “Windows Default” to restore the default sound effects. To do this, select a sound effect in the list, click the “Sound” box at the bottom of the window, and click “(None)”.Ĭlick “OK” to save your changes when you’re done. For example, you might want to disable “Notification” sound effects while leaving “Critical Battery Alarm” sound effects enabled. You can also choose to disable sound effects for specific events. On the Sounds tab, click the “Sound Scheme” box and select “No Sounds” to disable sound effects entirely. If you also want to disable the sound that appears when you sign into Windows, uncheck the “Play Windows Startup sound” checkbox. You can also just navigate to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound. Memory: 16 GB (8GBx2) G.To open the Sound control panel, right-click the speaker icon in your system tray and select “Sounds”. Thanks for you help, it's been very useful. One of the settings it has is to set a delay on the CapsLock toggle so to toggle it, one has to hold it down for a bit (the 'bit' is configurable), sadly there's not something similar for NumLock. As a result of this exercise I've played around with its settings to good effect, I'd been running at defaults. I'm happy to stick with Toggler - functionally it does what I want - no more, no less. In an ideal world of course, a discrete audio indication of a lock key press would be built into the keyboard as an opt-in/out option - IBM should have thought of it - so we'll blame them What I forgot to mention is that Num Lock produces no sound with Windows, only Caps Lock.īut even if it did work, without the delays, I'd either have to create a sound scheme just for this feature, or put up with Windows playing chimes, dinging bells, pressing buzzers every time I did anything.
And it's not the wav file(s), I checked them with Audacity for any starting silence or hi-lo transients. Other Info: Logitech Z625 speaker system,Īttached some earplugs via the front audio jacks - same delays, Toggler short, Windows long, same wav file.
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