I have been worried about my hard drive lately because ever since I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 I hear a loud click every time I select a folder on my C drive in Windows Explorer.
Weeks later I discover that there was a “navigation” event set in System Sounds that plays a “click” noise every time you navigate in Windows Explorer. I just turned it off.
What were these people thinking?
That’s been there since Windows 95, at least.
I once worked for a ‘gentleman’, a term I use VERY loosely , who had his Mac sent to use Kathleen Turner saying “Oh Baby!” every time he stuck a floppy disk in.
Off course, this was the Mensa candidate who had surge suppressors listed in our database as “Urge suppressors”:smack:
My wife has a Surface tablet, and when you play the daily challenges in Solitaire or Mah Jongg it makes a loud “clack!” sound along with the fireworks when you win a game. Scared the crap out of me the first few times I heard it, I thought there was something seriously wrong with her tablet.
I keep the sound turned off on my computer at ALL times unless I’m actually listening to a video or something. I hate the beeps, clicks, etc.
They were thinking “We need to make a successful folder click make a sound, because it’s 1992 and computers are slow. Sometimes it takes a long time for folders to open and people need a cue to let them know their action registered and they should just wait, not click 500 more times on the folder, thus compounding the overall slowness of the original intended process. Of course, this won’t stop everyone from quadruple-clicking on things but at least we did our part.”
This solution has probably come up for review several times since then and it kept being the right thing to include in the latest default sounds library.
Yes, but it’s not 1992 anymore, yet turning sounds on is still the default for some reason. Heck, I’m surprised that the new 1511 update didn’t turn it back on–it reset everything other setting back to where it was when Windows 10 was installed.
I loathe system sounds. It’s the Very first thing I always disable after every new install. I also use my machine as a pre-amp for my stereo. So when some idiot “friend” of mine decided to ffuck around with my settings turned system sounds back on (because he didn’t know what he was doing), 300 watts of full blast windows startup sound got him banned from my house for a while.
My strategy also. The other day, I turned on the streaming audio of Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me because we get crappy radio reception down in our area, and while listening, I decided to play a mindless game. OMG!! I couldn’t turn off the game “music” fast enough!
Sometimes I wonder if people are afraid of silence.
I always turn off system sounds. And since I have acquired a lot of devices over the years, I’ve gone thru setup menus shutting off everything many, many times. Most recently with an LG “phone” I got last week.
But still, it’s not enough.
E.g., take the Washington Post crosswords (and presumably other games). I only go there to print out the puzzles. But still, there’s a beep for everything. There’s a menu option to turn it off. Problem: the setting is saved in persistent storage which gets cleared out quite often. (And if it was in cookies, same problem as I clear out cookies for such sites regularly.)
I have no idea what kind of people want a beep each time they do anything in a crossword puzzle.
They need separate URLs for “we’re going to drive you insane with noise” and “oh, you’re a normal person” versions so I can bookmark the quiet one only.