How to Stop / Disable the Internet Explorer Refresh Sound
by Gil Levy - December 27th, 2005 3:06 pm
If you are annoyed by the sound internet explorer makes every time a page is refreshed, on a news site for example while listening to music, all you have to do to stop / disable it is the following:
Go to Start Menu >> Settings >> Control Panel >> Sounds and Audio Devices. Then click on the Sounds tab. Once there, scroll down the list of Program Events until you see Windows Explorer. Underneath that you should then see Start Navigation…
Select (highlight) start navigation. Now, looking underneath the list of Program Events you should see a section for Sounds. Use that drop-down box to select (None) which is at the very top of the list in most cases.
This should should do the trick once saved or applied.
The “annoying refresh click” is a windows sound ( c:\windows\media\start.wav ) so it can be taken care of within your operating system instead of within Internet Explorer options. Hope that helps!
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July 30th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Thanks for the tip. This was driving me crazy when Sabnzbd was set for a 2-second-refresh!
February 23rd, 2010 at 10:09 am
To get rid of the “refresh” ding, just go to the same Sounds tab in Sounds & Audio Devices, and instead of the “Windows Explorer” section, look under the section “Windows” for “Exclamation” – turn that one to (none) and that should do the trick