# Quickie IE Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-ie-question/382490>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 1, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-ie-question/382490 "2006-12-01T17:25:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-ie-question/382490/1 "2006-12-01T17:25:20Z")

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Does anyone know how to turn off the sound that IE makes every time you click a link or a page reloads itself? Thxs!

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**Author:** ![Marathon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Marathon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marathon)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-ie-question/382490/2 "2006-12-01T17:39:50Z")

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In the Control Panel for Windows, open up “Sounds and Audio” or just “Sounds” (depending on Windows version). Click the “Sounds” tab. Under the Windows Explorer tree, set the options for “Start Navigation” and “Complete Navigation” to have no sound associated with them.

I’m mostly sure, but not 100%, that this generality applies to all recent Windows versions.

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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickie-ie-question/382490/3 "2006-12-02T04:27:13Z")

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Cool, thanks. That licked it.