So, after I thought I'd managed to get pretty much everything on my replacement work PC set up the way I like it, I noticed that the machine seemed to be beeping a lot. One of the main causes was new mail arriving - any time a new message arrived, a beep would emanate from the PC speaker.
Somebody on IRC (xslogic) suggested that it was because I didn't have a sound card (well, not installed, anyway). I checked, and sure enough, the sound card drivers didn't appear to be installed. I installed them, only to find that Windows sounds would now attempt to play through the PC speaker - for everything like opening a folder or a page loading in IE, and whatever else Windows makes annoying noises for. I then changed the sound profile to "no sounds" so that these annoying noises no longer existed, and thought that was that.
Much to my dismay, it wasn't long before I received another email - and heard another beep. This I couldn't understand, since it could no longer be due to Windows, but must now be Outlook itself doing this - and on the old machine I'd had no such problem. After some serious option-diving, I found the culprit:
Tools->Options->Preferences (tab)->E-mail Options...->Advanced E-mail Options...->When new items arrive
This has three checkboxes: "Play a sound," "Briefly change the mouse cursor" and "Show an envelope icon in the system tray." I unchecked the first two and left the third, since it is still good to be able to tell at a glance that there's new mail.
Note: This is Outlook 2002 (XP) - this setting, if it even exists, may be located elsewhere in other versions.
Somebody on IRC (xslogic) suggested that it was because I didn't have a sound card (well, not installed, anyway). I checked, and sure enough, the sound card drivers didn't appear to be installed. I installed them, only to find that Windows sounds would now attempt to play through the PC speaker - for everything like opening a folder or a page loading in IE, and whatever else Windows makes annoying noises for. I then changed the sound profile to "no sounds" so that these annoying noises no longer existed, and thought that was that.
Much to my dismay, it wasn't long before I received another email - and heard another beep. This I couldn't understand, since it could no longer be due to Windows, but must now be Outlook itself doing this - and on the old machine I'd had no such problem. After some serious option-diving, I found the culprit:
Tools->Options->Preferences (tab)->E-mail Options...->Advanced E-mail Options...->When new items arrive
This has three checkboxes: "Play a sound," "Briefly change the mouse cursor" and "Show an envelope icon in the system tray." I unchecked the first two and left the third, since it is still good to be able to tell at a glance that there's new mail.
Note: This is Outlook 2002 (XP) - this setting, if it even exists, may be located elsewhere in other versions.
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