Berserk alert sound

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I use the loudspeaker icon to change the volume on my Win 10 system.

All of a sudden, every time I click on the sliding volume control, windows sounds and alarm or alert tone!  What gives, and how can I stop it?

 

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This example was taken from the internet. All I did was do a Google search for Windows 10 changing sound notifications.  If the following doesn’t work you can search for other examples.

1.  Go to search, type control.
2.  Open control panel, select Sound.
3.  Click the Sounds Tab.
4.  Select “Default Beep” in the Program Events list.
5.  At the bottom, where it says “Sounds”, a . wav file is selected (Windows Background. wav by default). Change this to (None).
6.  Apply changes

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Well yes, this would certainly turn off the alert beep for sliding the volume control. But it also turns off all alerts that use the “Default Beep'”

That’s like curing blurry vision by applying a blindfold.

What I want to know is, how do I keep windows from assigning an alert to the volume control.

I am aware of Google, thank you. I was hoping someone here could address my particular problem.

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sorry – should have read two up..

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The thing I find puzzling is that this system – about 2 years old – was working just fine a week ago. I did not change any sound settings, so what happened ??

 

 

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Check and see if there’s a sound item for just the volume control.  If there is, you can take out the disturbing sound or put in a sound you like in its place.

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Try the “Menu Popup” item on the menu mentioned above!

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Pretty strange that you never had the problem before. I believe you. On all my windows 10 machines they all do the same thing, when I move the volume control it makes a ding. My way around it? I don’t use that  windows volume control at all. On my laptop I use the hardware volume controls and for my other units I use my mouse scroll wheel. I always adjust the volume within the application. For instance VLC.

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WSpfeldmann

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Hoping this help you:

When you open the Windows volume control by clicking the speaker icon, usually the volume level can be changed silently if your mouse has a scroll wheel.

If you are using a laptop also try this it may work for you, if you have your touch pad configured for two-fingered scrolling, it too should silently adjust the Windows volume level.

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Hey, the mouse scroll wheel actually works for changing the volume level without hearing any “ding” sound! I never knew that.

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Thank you. The scroll wheel accomplishes what I need.

Happy weekend.

 

-Peter

 

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GoneToPlaid

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Horrible thing. I did find a “lever” but you’d need to be a good programmer to work back from how a control is linked to the event system to work out how to unhook the default one..

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/endpointvolume/ns-endpointvolume-audio_volume_notification_data

I’ve got a keyboard with volume control on it – that doesn’t cause a sound but the on screen slider does..

Glad you’ve got a solution..

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WSpfeldmann

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So the “Berserk” sound turned out to be the Default “Ding” sound.  I’ve got most of the sound events set to “none”.

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I used the term “beserk” on purpose.

Only an engineer completely out of his mind would use an audio alarm cue on a device that is controlling audio!

And yes, abandoning the use of audio cues on all events will eliminate this problem, but it also eliminate an alert for every unwanted event in the system. I don’t like telemarketing calls. I can avoid them by not answering my phone, but then I have lost the use of my phone in a very important way, while still paying for my line and number.

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did this not work??

Try the “Menu Popup” item on the menu mentioned above!

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/berserk-alert-sound/#post-2444750

From these instructions https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/berserk-alert-sound/#post-2444696

Mike wrote:

1. Go to search, type control.
2. Open control panel, select Sound.
3. Click the Sounds Tab.
4. Select “Default Beep” in the Program Events list.
5. At the bottom, where it says “Sounds”, a . wav file is selected (Windows Background. wav by default). Change this to (None).
6. Apply changes

Just because you don't know where you are going doesn't mean any road will get you there.

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It works, but in doing this, you eliminate ALL default beeps from the system. Might as well just turn off the sounds completely.

Thanks anyways.

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