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Accessibility Options / Num Lock key & Sounds
I recently set up the accessibility options so I could use the Num
Lock key when browsing (as the mouse left click). I have all of the sound related options unchecked so there should be no sounds when I press the Num Lock key, but every time I press it I get the notification sounds. I've tried to find a solution, but no luck. Anyone know how to disable the sounds (without telling me to use the options in the accessibility options box)? Thanks for any help. |
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Accessibility Options / Num Lock key & Sounds
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... I recently set up the accessibility options so I could use the Num Lock key when browsing (as the mouse left click). I have all of the sound related options unchecked so there should be no sounds when I press the Num Lock key, but every time I press it I get the notification sounds. I've tried to find a solution, but no luck. Anyone know how to disable the sounds (without telling me to use the options in the accessibility options box)? Thanks for any help. You wrote: I have all of the sound related options unchecked. I assume that to mean you have gone to every tab in Accessibility Options and unchecked every box relating to sounds or beeps, including clicking every Settings button and disabling them there too. In other words, you have gone to the Keyboard tab, clicked the Settings button for Sticky Keys and Filter Keys and unchecked the boxes for sounds, and also unchecked the box to disable Toggle Keys. In addition, you have gone to the Sound tab and unchecked the boxes there, and to the General tab and unchecked the sound option there also. Is that correct? If so, and again assuming that you haven't installed any tweaks or utilities that are causing the beep, try disabling beeps altogether on your computer and see if that works: Open Device Manager, click the View menu Show Hidden Devices. Expand "Non-Plug and Play Drivers", right-click on "Beep" and disable it. Don't reboot when prompted. Right-click on Beep again, click Properties. On the Driver tab, change the Startup Type to Disabled, then click the Stop button if available. Close Device Manager and reboot. -- Glen Ventura MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 CompTIA A+ |
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Accessibility Options / Num Lock key & Sounds
On May 28, 8:48*am, "glee" wrote:
wrote in message ... I recently set up the accessibility options so I could use the Num Lock key when browsing (as the mouse left click). *I have all of the sound related options unchecked so there should be no sounds when I press the Num Lock key, but every time I press it I get the notification sounds. I've tried to find a solution, but no luck. Anyone know how to disable the sounds (without telling me to use the options in the accessibility options box)? Thanks for any help. You wrote: I have all of the sound related options unchecked. I assume that to mean you have gone to every tab in Accessibility Options and unchecked every box relating to sounds or beeps, including clicking every Settings button and disabling them there too. In other words, you have gone to the Keyboard tab, clicked the Settings button for Sticky Keys and Filter Keys and unchecked the boxes for sounds, and also unchecked the box to disable Toggle Keys. *In addition, you have gone to the Sound tab and unchecked the boxes there, and to the General tab and unchecked the sound option there also. *Is that correct? If so, and again assuming that you haven't installed any tweaks or utilities that are causing the beep, try disabling beeps altogether on your computer and see if that works: Open Device Manager, click the View menu Show Hidden Devices. Expand "Non-Plug and Play Drivers", right-click on "Beep" and disable it. Don't reboot when prompted. Right-click on Beep again, click Properties. On the Driver tab, change the Startup Type to Disabled, then click the Stop button if available. Close Device Manager and reboot. -- Glen Ventura MS MVP *Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 CompTIA A+ Thank you very much for your great reply. I did have all the sound related options unchecked in the Accessibility Options box. I followed your Device Manager steps and have now disabled the beep. I had previously looked for the Beep in the Sounds and Audio Effects / Sounds / Program events / Windows list, but it wasn't there; though I just noticed a Default Beep line, with (None) for the Sounds selection. If I could expand this a little, in looking at the Sounds and Audio Effects / Sounds / Program events listings, I have four lines with items for AVG which I uninstalled a while ago. Is there any way to remove these from the listings? Thanks again for your terrific assistance. |
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Accessibility Options / Num Lock key & Sounds
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... On May 28, 8:48 am, "glee" wrote: wrote in message ... I recently set up the accessibility options so I could use the Num Lock key when browsing (as the mouse left click). I have all of the sound related options unchecked so there should be no sounds when I press the Num Lock key, but every time I press it I get the notification sounds. I've tried to find a solution, but no luck. Anyone know how to disable the sounds (without telling me to use the options in the accessibility options box)? Thanks for any help. You wrote: I have all of the sound related options unchecked. I assume that to mean you have gone to every tab in Accessibility Options and unchecked every box relating to sounds or beeps, including clicking every Settings button and disabling them there too. In other words, you have gone to the Keyboard tab, clicked the Settings button for Sticky Keys and Filter Keys and unchecked the boxes for sounds, and also unchecked the box to disable Toggle Keys. In addition, you have gone to the Sound tab and unchecked the boxes there, and to the General tab and unchecked the sound option there also. Is that correct? If so, and again assuming that you haven't installed any tweaks or utilities that are causing the beep, try disabling beeps altogether on your computer and see if that works: Open Device Manager, click the View menu Show Hidden Devices. Expand "Non-Plug and Play Drivers", right-click on "Beep" and disable it. Don't reboot when prompted. Right-click on Beep again, click Properties. On the Driver tab, change the Startup Type to Disabled, then click the Stop button if available. Close Device Manager and reboot. Thank you very much for your great reply. I did have all the sound related options unchecked in the Accessibility Options box. I followed your Device Manager steps and have now disabled the beep. I had previously looked for the Beep in the Sounds and Audio Effects / Sounds / Program events / Windows list, but it wasn't there; though I just noticed a Default Beep line, with (None) for the Sounds selection. If I could expand this a little, in looking at the Sounds and Audio Effects / Sounds / Program events listings, I have four lines with items for AVG which I uninstalled a while ago. Is there any way to remove these from the listings? Thanks again for your terrific assistance. You're welcome. As for the sound events in Control Panel Sounds, for AVG, that were left over, first try running the AVG Removal Tool: http://www.avg.com/us-en/utilities For XP 32-bit, you would download and then run "AVG Remover(32bit) 2012" http://download.avg.com/filedir/util..._2012_2125.exe It removes all the parts of your AVG installation, including Registry items, installation files, user files, etc.. The Sound entries are in the Registry, so it may remove those. If not, then you will have to manually edit the Registry and delete the AVG sound events key. I don't recommend editing the Registry if you have never done it before. All edits should be prefaced by backing up the key you are planning to delete. The key containing the AVG sound entries should be under this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps If you expand that Apps key, you should see a sub-key probably named AVG, which in turn has sub-keys for each listed AVG sound. You would back up and then delete the AVG key. -- Glen Ventura MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 CompTIA A+ |
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