Vista Clock Chime

Does anyone know how to disable the hourly and half hour chime that sounds
like a grandfather clock. I just bought a new Dell Laptop (Inspiron 1501)
and the chime is getting annoying.

I have tried to look in every settings possible and have found nothing about
a chime or alarms.

Thank You

Seeing as how that is NOT a part of Vista, you will have to contact Dell for
the information.

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"Jason B." <Jason B.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:77A0FFFA-B608-4079-B246-1D3A0A338203@microsoft.com...
> Does anyone know how to disable the hourly and half hour chime that sounds
> like a grandfather clock. I just bought a new Dell Laptop (Inspiron 1501)
> and the chime is getting annoying.
>
> I have tried to look in every settings possible and have found nothing
> about
> a chime or alarms.
>
> Thank You

"Jason B." <Jason B.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> Does anyone know how to disable the hourly and half hour chime that sounds
> like a grandfather clock. I just bought a new Dell Laptop (Inspiron 1501)
> and the chime is getting annoying.
>
> I have tried to look in every settings possible and have found nothing
> about
> a chime or alarms.

Check the Grandfather clock in the next room? Vista doesn't have a clock
chime so it's some 3rd party software. Check all he sound events in Control
Panel | Hardware and Sound | Sound - Change system sounds. If it's in there
change it.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

Low battery alarm on pacemaker?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> "Jason B." <Jason B.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>> Does anyone know how to disable the hourly and half hour chime that
>> sounds
>> like a grandfather clock. I just bought a new Dell Laptop (Inspiron
>> 1501)
>> and the chime is getting annoying.
>>
>> I have tried to look in every settings possible and have found nothing
>> about
>> a chime or alarms.
>
> Check the Grandfather clock in the next room? Vista doesn't have a clock
> chime so it's some 3rd party software. Check all he sound events in
> Control Panel | Hardware and Sound | Sound - Change system sounds. If
> it's in there change it.
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

Lol, that would not be good.

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote

> Low battery alarm on pacemaker?

> "Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:%23LVedowUHHA.4872@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> "Jason B." <Jason B.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>>> Does anyone know how to disable the hourly and half hour chime that
>>> sounds
>>> like a grandfather clock. I just bought a new Dell Laptop (Inspiron
>>> 1501)
>>> and the chime is getting annoying.
>>>
>>> I have tried to look in every settings possible and have found nothing
>>> about
>>> a chime or alarms.
>>
>> Check the Grandfather clock in the next room? Vista doesn't have a clock
>> chime so it's some 3rd party software. Check all he sound events in
>> Control Panel | Hardware and Sound | Sound - Change system sounds. If
>> it's in there change it.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

he lives in London
"Jason B." <Jason B.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:77A0FFFA-B608-4079-B246-1D3A0A338203@microsoft.com...
> Does anyone know how to disable the hourly and half hour chime that sounds
> like a grandfather clock. I just bought a new Dell Laptop (Inspiron 1501)
> and the chime is getting annoying.
>
> I have tried to look in every settings possible and have found nothing
> about
> a chime or alarms.
>
> Thank You

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:13:03 -0800, Jason B. <Jason
B.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Does anyone know how to disable the hourly and half hour chime that sounds
>like a grandfather clock. I just bought a new Dell Laptop (Inspiron 1501)
>and the chime is getting annoying.
>
>I have tried to look in every settings possible and have found nothing about
>a chime or alarms.
>
>Thank You
Not having said feature: :/

Did you right click on the clock (in sidebar, not task bar) and check
its options?
There isn't a sound setting for *a* clock in the "sounds" settings?

Is there a bong sound file in \windows\media that if all else fails,
you could rename (or delete)?

It was on the computer as I got it OEM from Dell. I have used Dell Tech
Support and also DellConnect and they have no idea what it is. There is no
sound for it in the system sounds, nor any settings if I right click on the
clock.

Oh well mute works too.

"Steve Urbach" wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:13:03 -0800, Jason B. <Jason
> B.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know how to disable the hourly and half hour chime that sounds
> >like a grandfather clock. I just bought a new Dell Laptop (Inspiron 1501)
> >and the chime is getting annoying.
> >
> >I have tried to look in every settings possible and have found nothing about
> >a chime or alarms.
> >
> >Thank You
> Not having said feature: :/
>
> Did you right click on the clock (in sidebar, not task bar) and check
> its options?
> There isn't a sound setting for *a* clock in the "sounds" settings?
>
> Is there a bong sound file in \windows\media that if all else fails,
> you could rename (or delete)?
>
>

Brain(?):
Check the Task Scheduler for odd tasks.
Check Windows Calendar reminders (options: play sound)


On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:14:05 -0800, Jason B.
<JasonB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>It was on the computer as I got it OEM from Dell. I have used Dell Tech
>Support and also DellConnect and they have no idea what it is. There is no
>sound for it in the system sounds, nor any settings if I right click on the
>clock.
>
>Oh well mute works too.
>
>"Steve Urbach" wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:13:03 -0800, Jason B. <Jason
>> B.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Does anyone know how to disable the hourly and half hour chime that sounds
>> >like a grandfather clock. I just bought a new Dell Laptop (Inspiron 1501)
>> >and the chime is getting annoying.
>> >
>> >I have tried to look in every settings possible and have found nothing about
>> >a chime or alarms.
>> >
>> >Thank You
>> Not having said feature: :/
>>
>> Did you right click on the clock (in sidebar, not task bar) and check
>> its options?
>> There isn't a sound setting for *a* clock in the "sounds" settings?
>>
>> Is there a bong sound file in \windows\media that if all else fails,
>> you could rename (or delete)?
>>
>>