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Zebedee · Moderator

Email notifications for new PMs are often quite slow - some arrive hours after the actual PM.

I therefore try to rely on the little squelching sound my machine makes when a new PM arrives (since the top panel with the illuminated button is usually out of view).

Does anybody know where I can find the link to the current sound file so I can replace it with a 100db klaxon!! Shocked

Thanks in advance.

geraldandannie · Moderator

Hi ZebeDave

Do you mean where the actual sound files are (C:\WINDOWS\Media on a XP machine), or do you mean where you can change them? (start : Control Panel : Sounds and Audio Devices : Sounds tab)

Gerald

Zebedee · Moderator

geraldandannie · Moderator

Hi Dave

I'm using XP Pro by the way. Me too Crying or Very sad

The main sound files are in C:\WINDOWS\Media on mine, with Office sounds in C:\WINDOWS\Media\Microsoft Office 2000. Yours should be something like.

Gerald

Zebedee · Moderator

PhredC

I guess you'll hear the cheers all over the country when the new PM arrives!!

Zebedee · Moderator

Zebedee · Moderator

Found it.

Well, one way of doing it anyway, which might be useful for others so I'll give the details.

When a pop-up arrives I've got my Google toolbar set to block it, and warn me with its little warning bar. It also makes a tiny little sound, which I could hardly hear against the traffic.

I took Gerald's advice and in C:/Windows/Media I exchanged Windows XP Pop-up Blocked.wav for a more suitable sound file.

Now I get an audible signal as soon as a PM arrives.

(It works, and thanks to Greenie who didn't realise she was helping me just now, as I kept replying to her PM with daft comments to keep her coming back.

Thanks Greenie, the testing session worked a treat.)

Whoops - forgot the smileys. Laughing

greenasthegrass · NE Rally Co-ordinator

I knew that could hear your chuffing brain cell bouncing round louder than the notifying!

Service with a grimace!

Greenie