I have a DOOZY of a challenge for you!!!
 

Hi everybody:

I have a Hewlett Packard Media Center PC. All bells and whistles.Windows XP, you know the drill. I also use Outless Express as my mail thing.

I have disabled all sounds (for incoming and outgoing mail) on Outlook Express.

So what's my problem???? I now like to watch dvd's on my DVD rom thing.

I put in a DVD last night. Played just fine. Sound was perfect.


Every 20 minutes or so, I get this sound (very hard to duplicate) but it's definitely a sound that anounces something, for example BING BAMM

I have absolutely no idea what this sound originates from.

I went to my outlook express options thing because I figured it was announcing I got an e-mail or something. I disabled the sound effects part.

Ten minutes later, as I'm watching the dvd, I get the BING BAMM sound again. It's two musical notes.

Obviously there is something enabled on my computer that is notifying me of something. Drives me nuts.

I refuse to use another dvd until I disable this.

Oh, just so you know, on the bottom right of my screen are the following icons.

Windows messenger, Mailwasher Free,MusicMatch Jukebox,Google Desktop, Verizon Internet Suite, New Items Available, google updater, Kodak easy share, Udate are ready for your computer,click here to install these updates (maybe it's this????), java update available,

That's all the little icons on the bottom right. Maybe one of these is announcing something with the Bing Bamm thing.

Please, if anybody knows how to stop my computer from doing this Bing Bamm sound I would really appreciate it.

Thanks.

well let's see what we can figure out.


so you went to - settings -control panel -sounds and devices -
and then clicked on the sounds tab and for the sound theme you selected -no sounds- and clicked the apply and then the OK button?

that's how I turned my sounds off.
some webpages will still have a sound or notification beep or ding dong sound.

Did you try the "click to install updates" to see it it stops after that is done

"So you went to - settings -control panel -sounds and devices -
and then clicked on the sounds tab and for the sound theme you selected -no sounds- and clicked the apply and then the OK button?"

NO, I NEVER DID THIS!!! I went to my Outlook Express and (because I thought it might be my mail server ANNOUNCING that I had MAIL!!!, I disabled that option). I never went to control panel, sounds and devices, etc.

Now if I did do this and I disable sounds, How can I watch videos on the internet and dvds in my dvd rom thing.

If I go to control panel, sounds and devices and clik on sounds tab and I select NO SOUNDS, does this mean NO SOUNDS FOR EVERYTHING???

Clue me in here. AND THANK YOU MUCH

Melody

Edited to add: I think this is the same thing Jo has said only done a different way. I'm sorry to repeat. I didn't read that properly. <grimace>

I meant to reply earlier in my day to your message, Melody, but I thought I'd leave it till later when I had more time to check on things. Unfortunately, I can't stay online now, but I would have to wonder about the Updates that you've got there, esp,. the one that says it's ready to install.

Also, on my Volume icon in the Taskbar, if I right click on that it'll bring up a choice of either Adjust Audio Properties or Open Volume Control. If you have that on your computer, you might find something in Adjust Audio Properties that might help.

Go to.
Volume Icon in Taskbar
Right click mouse on Adjust Audio Properties
Go to Sounds
See Program Events
Click on whichever Program you want no sounds for, and then Click NONE which is at the top of the box below that which says Sounds.

You need to click Apply.

I just went through all of mine and it took ages.

No idea if this is of any help. lol
See how it goes.

Mel,
this will just disable the windows system sounds - bell, ding, chimes etc-

the videos, DVD, CDs, music and any sounds on websites will still play.

OKAY!! will do the sounds thing.

I updated all updates and I put in the dvd of The Queen and five minutes later BING BAMM, again. Didn't do it again for an hour.

I would just love to know why it does this.

Anyway, I'll try your suggestions.

Thanks so much.

Melody

Well, I went to control panel, went to sounds devices and I disabled the sounds.

I put in another dvd and guess what??? Not once have I heard BIM BAMM since I did this!!!

Thank you, you lovely people on this board.

The Bim bam thing was extremely annoying.

I never was into dvd's before but recently learned how to use the darn thing and I want to see certain movies.
What a pleasure.

Around my way, all the video stores only carry dvds. They told me "They don't make movies on VHS any more". Blockbuster, etc. none of them carry any VHS tapes any more.

So I better get used to learning how to watch dvds.

I actually had to call up the video store this morning and I said "how do you fast foward a dvd??" I had to learn to put the mouse over the right arrows AND HOLD IT DOWN. I was doing it wrong. When I clicked, it went to the next scene. I wanted to view the movie exactly like I do when I watch a vhs tape.

So now I have learned.

All these cool dvds coming out and now I get to watch.

Thanks again
Melody

So glad you got it all sorted out, Melody!
I find them a little annoying in that the buttons don't always do what I want them to do. There is a function where you can fast-forward in various speeds, but it's all a bit fiddly for me and I'm forever pressing the wrong darn button (meaning the Stop button) and then the whole thing stops and goes back to the beginning and then I have to find where I'm up to again. lol The menu feature is helpful, but if I want to stop on one frame it's often really hard to find it exactly. Maybe it's just me.

Hi Lara:

No, believe me, it's not you. That why I never bought a dvd player. I love using my VHS recorder. I tape anything I want. I have 4 vcrs's in my house.
My husband has one in the living room. (Three are all the same - PANASONIC- got them from the internet. Great deal on all of them).

The fourth one, well my neighbor just put it out for the sanitation. With the remote. It was an older one, but I'm good with VCR's so I brought it into my house, set it up and the only thing wrong with it was, when you hit the eject button, you have to hold the front thing in so the tape will eject. If you just press eject, than the tape gets stuck inside the machine. I figured out how to fix this in 2 seconds flat.

My neighbor is also my friend, so I immediately called her and said "Guess where your VCR is?? She burst out laughing. I also said "you can't have it back". She said "Oh, I can't stand it the tape always gets stuck". I said "all you had to do was hold the thing in, and the tape comes out". She said "oh, who cares, it's yours".

So that's my 4th vcr. It's hooked up to an old tv in a section of my living room. It's not hooked up to cable but to a regular antennae. So whenever I want to tape something and I am already using my 3 vcr's (let's say I want to tape Dancing with the stars), I just pop in a tape and I'm good to go.

Sometimes, I have all 4 vcrs going on at the same time.
But now you can watch most ABC shows on the internet.
Thank goodness for cable, or I would go crazy.

I rarely watch anything while it's on the first time, (I always tape) because the phone rings, the doorbell, rings, I'm cooking) so because I tape it, I can watch things whenever I want to.

The only exception is 24. My husband and watch it and go crazy.
And American Idol. I HAVE TO WATCH THAT LIVE.

So far the Bim Bam thing is gone. BUT, sometimes a little DING happens.

Now if I disabled the sounds (in sounds and devices), what the heck is that little DING thing??

Melody

Could it be your Pop-Up Blocker? Mine makes a sound.

Some types of software have/generate their own sounds, such as Yahoo messenger. In that case you need to go into the option for each piece of software and make sure you disable any and all notification sounds.

Just because you cant hear it doesnt mean it is off.

If I was you I would go to "start" then "run", and type in msconfig. Once that opens go to the last tab "startup".

In there is some check boxes, all the ones checked start up automatically when you turn on your computer. The more you have on the slower your computer boots, and all those eat up your system resources. You do not need all of them running.

There is some you have to have check marked, but yahoo messnger, or any messenger you can turn off, kodak, actually anything that is an extra software. Once you uncheck the boxes it will want to restart. Click yes.

You will find that your computer will start and run much faster. When you want to use the programs you unclicked, there is usually a short cut on your desktop, or look in "start" "programs" and then select desired one.

Hope this helps a tiny bit. :winky:

allen

is there an easy to way to check what you don't need running?

i unchecked a few. it sure seems like i have a lot still checked.

Yes
 

I only have 5 things running, and could probably turn off the qttask. qttask is quick time.

When entering the msconfig folder to disable starup items (start > run > msconfig), it isn't necessary to individually disable items in the starup folder. To maximize your system resources, go to the General tab and simply uncheck "Load startup group items". Of Course, the other two items (system.ini & win.ini) MUST remain checked. Then click Apply, and let your pc reboot.

Once you have done this you can go back and look at the startup folder to note which ones are the ones needed to run the computer.

I leave qttask running because of all the videos that use that type of file. When you go to watch a quick time video, or listen to a audio file, and have this disabled it will ask you if it can download the missing files. That will just turn it back on in the startup folder :Sigh:

I'm a Mac user but my suspicion is much simpler than all the other ideas. Is it possible that in your DVD player software there is an option to play a chime notification at every chapter marker? That's what it sounds like to me.

It would be a matter of choosing no alerts in the DVD player's preferences menu.

I was helpin my sister with her computer, and realized that the directions I gave were GEEKED! LOL

Sorry I was speaking geek speak :o

Here is a website that explains how to improve your computer in language everyone, even my sister, can understand.

http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/sgp-tweaks.ars

It wasn't too terribly geeky. I've heard and do hear much worse every day. My other half is DaGeek. :wink:

Now, for the average generic user you may have given one or two a headache. But it *is* a difficult thing to talk someone through that doesn't know what you're talking about let alone where to look for it. I run into that problem on a daily basis as I do callcenter tech support for an ISP. There are just some things I tell the customer they'll either have to bring the machine in or have someone come out and look at it cause it's just too difficult to talk them through it and I certainly don't want to make a problem worse because they didn't fully understand the directions I was giving them. I'm amazed on a daily basis how little most people know about even the basics and don't want to know. They want it done for them but they don't want to pay for it. :o Sigh.

And of course that doesn't apply to the wonderful people here...because they want to learn! (boy I dodged that one nicely didn't I) :D

Dazed Look
 

I sure do know what ya mean jarret, all my friends and family use me like the tech line. If I cant talk them through it, or outright fix it, then they go call you lol.

I was trying to help a son and a sister understand how to keep viruses at bay, and also keep there machine running smoothly. When I noticed both of them had this dazed look.

That is when I realized maybe I had everyone here also in a dazed condition lol.

I sure feel for you now that vista is out. Everyone thought it was supposed to be easier, and then found out they have to know how to do certain things just access stuff. This one must keep you on the phone for hours lol.

With Vista I tell them to go back to XP. :wink: Vista is *so* not ready for prime time.

I've run in to a number of issues with Vista that are the fault of programming. They built it to be difficult. For instance, if you want the right click and save function to continue to work in IE7 on Vista, do *not* install any kind of toolbar. Sigh.