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    Random Windows Notification Sounds after Log-in

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by DetlevCM, Jun 6, 2009.

  1. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Hello everyone,
    a little while after log in - maybe 20-30 seconds I get the Windows Notification Sound.
    (German "Hinweis")

    This had not happened with SP1, it started some time aftr SP2 - but I'm not even sure if immediately after - I often boot and log in with the onboard soundcard muted, then switch to an external one...
    (and a few things have happened since my SP2 installation too)

    It there any way I can trace the origin of that sound?
    I'm not even sure if it appears every time - I think it didn't once.

    Its not a major problem - but it will be a nuissance in the long term...

    Also, I onbviously don't get a notification message - so no visual clues as
    where it comes from.

    Thanks to all who reply :)
     
    DetlevCM, Jun 6, 2009
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    Try "Right click on desktop => Personalize => Sounds" and see if there's anything there which is out of the ordinary or disable windows startup sounds and see if that helps..
     
    ramyk, Jun 6, 2009
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    Its not the startup sound - it a notification sound - I di notice it wasn't windows standard though - it was "Windows Standard modified" (translated) - reboot to see what happens...

    Edit:
    The sounds is still there.. :(
    And its quite some time after the log on sound...

    Edit2:
    On second thoughs - I feel this sound changed now ????

    Edit3:
    Recorded it on my BlackBerry but can't upload it :( -the "positive ding" from my fingerprint reader, then the logon sound - and 1 minute after log on - the "random sound".
     
    DetlevCM, Jun 6, 2009
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    Yea if you can upload it that would be great..
     
    ramyk, Jun 6, 2009
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    Ok... I can't upload it to NBR... but I can place it on my own server...

    http://detlevcm.dyndns.org/Sprachnotiz00002.zip

    25sec having a disagreement with my fingerprint reader - then the positve ding, then the log on - at the very end the notification...
     
    DetlevCM, Jun 6, 2009
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    Check your event logs to see if anything's getting logged there.
     
    Shyster1, Jun 6, 2009
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    there are thousands...
    Any specific ones I should look at?

    (oddly nough I didn't hear it hte last two start)
     
    DetlevCM, Jun 6, 2009
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    Ahh, now comes the hard part! ;) I would first check to see if there were any specifically sound-related items (e.g., something funky going on with the sound software); failing that, I would check the items from the time the sound happened and immediately before the sound happened - if something did get logged, the timestamp on that event should have been almost simultaneous with the emission of the sound itself.
     
    Shyster1, Jun 6, 2009
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    OK, using the soundfile I recorded as a timestamp...

    Applications - nothing exceptional - "only information".
    Security - nothing
    Setup - completely empty...
    System - a couple of errors there...
    the next item - empty. (all translations above, its a German OS :D)
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    Edit:
    I ran into an issue with a Brockhaus encyclopaedia and Outlook - I ended up doing a full system recovery - oh, and my lappy is suddenly faster :D
     
    DetlevCM, Jun 6, 2009
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