Thursday, July 14, 2005

Disabling the Clicking Sound in Internet Explorer

Some people get really irritated with the constant clicking noise that Internet Explorer makes when navigating through web pages by clicking links. If you want to turn this clicking noise off, it's pretty easy to do.
  • Go to 'Control Panel'
  • Double-click on the 'Sounds and Audio Devices' control panel
  • Click the Sounds tab.
  • Scroll down in the 'Program events' list until you find the 'Windows Explorer' section, then highlight 'Start Navigation.'
  • Change the 'Sounds' drop down menu at the bottom of the dialog to '(None).'
  • Press the OK button when done.
This will stop the clicking noise as you navigate different web pages.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you!

Anonymous said...

Thank god.. I just got windows for my mac and that was driving me crazy!!! Thank you, thank you. Windows should make this issue easier to fix..

Anonymous said...

Yes, Thanks for posting this. I have to attend an online class (java chat) that has IE constantly refreshing and making that clicking sound.

Anonymous said...

You are my hero... That clicking noise has been annoying me for ages.

Kelly said...

THANK YOU! I just built the amd spider platform and for the life of me CANNOT get the Start Navigation sound to stop going off every 10 seconds.. drove me crazy!!!!!!!!!! I friggin love the forums of the world!

Anonymous said...

you are my hero!! THankyou

Anonymous said...

I got this crazy clicking all the time, even when I turned off the sound! What I finally did was delete a file named "Windows Navigation Start.wav" and I haven't heard the sound since, nor has it appeared to have any negative affect on my system.

KenLee said...

I was lying in bed wondering what that noise could be?! It was a page on auto-refresh every 5 minutes!! LMAO! Thank you!

Anonymous said...

Thank You !!!!!!
How incomprehensible that Gates made billions off such an annoying software system!
That clicking was driving me crazy

Thanks!!

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much!! That was sooooo annoying!!

Anonymous said...

If that doesn't work:
Delete-

Windows Navigation Start.wav

Windows XP Start.wav

xpstart.wav

Anonymous said...

Thank you sooo much! OMG, it seems like forever I was hearing that tic, tic, tic, tic, tic! You are awesome! Thanks again!

Anonymous said...

Bless you!

Blogthis said...

At last - thank you!!!!!

Anonymous said...

This has been bothering me for at least two years, which is why I switched to Firefox. Gates, what in g-d's name were you thinking?