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Old October 12th 18, 05:03 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 10/12/2018 11:28 AM, micky wrote:
What's interesting is that the sound is louder than any other sound I
have, or at least it's at or near maximum even when the volume is set
lower. I'd be willing to forego this sound, I thing, but it's only once
a day.


I haven't looked in a while and I'm not near a win10 machine, but you
used to be able to open the sound mixer and find sliders for all kinds
of items, like system sounds (errors), thunderbird, firefox, vlc etc.
Some of them only show if running but...

You could then individually set each for it's own level, making
notifications or system sounds lower than other items. You'd have to play.

Of course this is an IIRC.

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Old October 12th 18, 05:43 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jimmy Wilkinson Knife[_2_]
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:28:14 +0100, micky wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 9 Oct 2018 02:43:04 -0000 (UTC),
Arlen Holder wrote:

On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:55:40 -0400, micky wrote:

Yes, it says On for all of these things on my computer, but I never get
any notifications.


The key question is what we "lose" when we turn off this stuff.
I just turned it _all_ off, but when I plugged in an iPad, I heard the
bong, but I didn't get any popup saying it was mounted.


If that's a notificatio, I do get a small blue borderless window that
slides into view int he bottom right, and a loud sound, when I plug in
phone.

What's interesting is that the sound is louder than any other sound I
have, or at least it's at or near maximum even when the volume is set
lower. I'd be willing to forego this sound, I thing, but it's only once
a day.


I think the Windows sound for unplugging a USB device makes the computer sound disappointed.
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Old October 12th 18, 05:43 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jimmy Wilkinson Knife[_2_]
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:03:03 +0100, Big Al wrote:

On 10/12/2018 11:28 AM, micky wrote:
What's interesting is that the sound is louder than any other sound I
have, or at least it's at or near maximum even when the volume is set
lower. I'd be willing to forego this sound, I thing, but it's only once
a day.


I haven't looked in a while and I'm not near a win10 machine, but you
used to be able to open the sound mixer and find sliders for all kinds
of items, like system sounds (errors), thunderbird, firefox, vlc etc.
Some of them only show if running but...

You could then individually set each for it's own level, making
notifications or system sounds lower than other items. You'd have to play.

Of course this is an IIRC.


Not really easy when the sound only runs for a second.
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Old October 14th 18, 07:40 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Micky
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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:43:25 +0100, "Jimmy
Wilkinson Knife" wrote:

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:28:14 +0100, micky wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 9 Oct 2018 02:43:04 -0000 (UTC),
Arlen Holder wrote:

On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:55:40 -0400, micky wrote:

Yes, it says On for all of these things on my computer, but I never get
any notifications.

The key question is what we "lose" when we turn off this stuff.
I just turned it _all_ off, but when I plugged in an iPad, I heard the
bong, but I didn't get any popup saying it was mounted.


If that's a notificatio, I do get a small blue borderless window that
slides into view int he bottom right, and a loud sound, when I plug in
phone.

What's interesting is that the sound is louder than any other sound I
have, or at least it's at or near maximum even when the volume is set
lower. I'd be willing to forego this sound, I thing, but it's only once
a day.


I think the Windows sound for unplugging a USB device makes the computer sound disappointed.


Yes, I think that's what they were trying to make it sound like.
  #35  
Old October 14th 18, 07:42 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Micky
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Default Notifications - what are they for?

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:43:51 +0100, "Jimmy
Wilkinson Knife" wrote:

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:03:03 +0100, Big Al wrote:

On 10/12/2018 11:28 AM, micky wrote:
What's interesting is that the sound is louder than any other sound I
have, or at least it's at or near maximum even when the volume is set
lower. I'd be willing to forego this sound, I thing, but it's only once
a day.


I haven't looked in a while and I'm not near a win10 machine, but you
used to be able to open the sound mixer and find sliders for all kinds
of items, like system sounds (errors), thunderbird, firefox, vlc etc.
Some of them only show if running but...

You could then individually set each for it's own level, making
notifications or system sounds lower than other items. You'd have to play.

Of course this is an IIRC.


I'll take a look.

Not really easy when the sound only runs for a second.


Good point.

And I'm asleep when I plug the phone in, at least it's loud enough to
wake me up. But I'll still look.
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Old October 19th 18, 09:45 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.usage.english
Jimmy Wilkinson Knife[_2_]
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 03:34:27 +0100, Paul wrote:

Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:


Nothing, absolutely nothing at all. I've never had one pop up that told
me something I wanted to know.


Storage Spaces can tell you your hard drive is very
low on space. If you ignored the Notification,
you might be crashing about two minutes later.

Resource messages like that are OK.

The Windows Defender related stuff, not so much.
Nobody cares how many times WD "shined my shoes"
today.


I've now managed to get a message "I will field your notifications while your gaming". WTF does that mean? Hide them? Deal with them automatically somehow? Is this a game of cricket? I'm unable to interpret that sentence.
 




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