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Did anyone find an answer to this? I don’t find any thread. I just installed IE 6.0 and it’s doing the same thing on every site – it chooses the wrong encoding and messes up each page.

Thanks, I’ll try it.

Yes, that’s the theory. Unfortunately it just ain’t true. I daily mail to patrick, hardly ever to kirkpatrick, and when it decides to choose it always chooses kirkpatrick. I could deal with that; it’s the times when I type in a name portion which has worked fine for months, only to have Outlook -for the first time ever, and with no warning or choices offered – find an off-the-wall match and send directly to it. Like when I tried to mail to my son-in-law Tate (always worked before) and it went to someone with a “sTATE” government address. Both addresses had been in my contact list for years, and this substitution had never happened before. So I had no reason to extend the abbreviation to avoid it. Outlook surprises me like this all the time, with wierd matches to addresses I’ve had for a long time without previous incident. I think it’s a genuine bug.

Apparently I once replied to a group email on which she was a fellow addressee. It still shouldn’t have “stuck” since I don’t automatically keep addresses to which I reply. But that’s the only point of entry; I have had no individual correspondence at all with her.

First, I don’t have that box checked. I am familiar with this option and have never chosen to select it.

Second, this is NOT a case of an address appearing in Contacts that’s unfamiliar. There is no address or listing for this person in my contacts list – not before, during, or after the several tests in which Outlook has placed this “ghost address” on my emails.

Unfortunately it does’t work in the non-networked mode either. It will sort by last name in the straight Outlook list, but if you access the contacts from inside a message by clicking the send to.. button they will be first names still. You have to go in through a message and open properties for each name on the list, and select the desired order one name at a time. A pain, and it sometimes comes undone when you synch. And has to be done seperately with each new contact entry.

You are the champ!! I followed your directions and found that the offending sound was called “ignore.wav” and was part of Clipmate. Why it didn’t show up when I did my *.wav searches is a mystery, as is its repeated deployment when I wasn’t using Clipmate at all. But now it’s vanquished. A great big thanks from a much less irritated PC user!

Not the system sound; gone when speaker volume down. I just got the little [censored] back after a couple of days of relief. Most recent activities – downloaded some Palm software and installed it. I don’t download or install software often enough for that to be the only trigger, though-
The theme doesn’t go all the way away, but this sound is added to it.

Thanks for the info. I have .au and .snd files, but none of them pan out. No incidence of the other file formats on my machine. I can’t figure out how a sound file can exist incognito!

My, there are a lot of midi files on there I didn’t know about! There’s even one named spring, but it turns out to be a sprightly little harpsichord number. I listened to all the small midi files I could find, and none of them comes close. Are there other common sound file extensions I can search on?

I go into Control Panel and either designate a Windows Theme or, using the Sounds control panel, choose a sound effect scheme. There is no sound among those listed individually in the sounds control panel which matches the one I’m trying to banish (I’ve listened to each one in turn, several times) Once I designate a Windows Theme or a sound affects scheme, the “bad” sound goes away. But after a restart or even just after a longish period of inactivity, the sound is back. In Internet Explorer it seems to accompany closing an active window; in Outlook it sounds for deleting a message, moving a message into a folder, or closing a window. That’s a lot of noise when you’re sorting through a big pile of email!

I already did both those things. There is no file named boing or anything close to it, and there is no .wav file that makes this noise. I’ve checked every single .wav file. I’ve gone through this process twice.