Colin's Weekly Tip: Disable Those IE Clicks

[Colin]

Quite a few people have written me asking how to disable the clicking sound IE makes after you click on a link. It doesn't bother me very much, but apparently it drives some of our readers crazy. If you feel silence is golden and would like to stop your IE from making sounds then you're in luck.

First open control panel (Start then click control panel) and open up the "Sounds and Audio Devices" (in XP, Sounds and Multimedia in 2000). That will open a new window and from there click on the Sounds tab, under Program events scroll down to the Windows Explorer section, under that heading you'll find the Start Navigation event. The Sounds box will now display the sound that plays every time a link is selected, simply change it to none and press the Ok button.