Computer Beeps When Maximizing/Minimizing Windows

Rewired

Howdy.

Thank you in advance for your help. Ok, this problem is bugging me to no end. Strangely, when I maximize or minimize any window I hear a soft, short beep. This occurs on all windows including explorer, IE, AIM, MS Word, etc. This sound is not coming from my speakers but somewhere inside the tower of my computer.

I can’t imagine what might cause such a problem. I have a Dell Dimension 4600 and I’m running Windows XP. I would be so grateful for help. Please let me know if there is any additional information I can provide that would aid in diagnosing the problem. Thanks again.

-Michael

Clutch

In XP. Go to your Control Panel. From there Make sure you are in classic view, ( to the left if it says switch to category view then you are in the classic view ) double click on "sounds and audio devices", click on the "sounds" scroll down until you see "Maximize" if there is .wav attached to "maximize" then everytime you maximize a window that sound will play. Same thing goes for "minimize" hope this helps.

Rewired

Clutch, There is no wave associated with either the minimize or maximize command.

I also tried this: I disabled the device labeled beep under the “Non Plug and Play Drivers” category in Device Manager. I rebooted as so the change would take effect. This did not resolve the problem and I continue to hear the soft beep from my computer.

Clutch

Do you hear the same beep while hitting Alt & Tab to switch between windows?

Straight_Man

While in there looking at sounds, check for a listing next to open and close also. Classic mode can play like 98 or 95 in this respect, sometimes THEY had this habit of using the open (Window) and close (Window) sound settings when things were maximized or minimized too long.

It's also possible to have settings set in the normal XP mode, and have them WORK persistently but be unreachable in Classic mode. switch back to normal mode, turn off if now on, then reestablish classic mode.

Some AV and Firewalls and Spam Blockers can be set to ding when they block things also, is this mostly web related apps that are triggering the ding??? And IM and Mail apps can be set to ding when they sense new messages or mail.... So, IF that does not show up in Windows XP settings, look at the application settings for the application you are maximizing or minimizing, its possible a whole bunch somehow got configged to do this (have any mischevious kids, brothers, sisters, room mates, significant others, etc who might have deliberately given you a "puzzle" to work out by turning all your apps sound settings that can be to active or on???)

Creep

andfitchandyou wrote:

The sound is not coming from my speakers but somewhere inside the tower of my computer.

Ok guys, it's comming from the internal speaker........ wav's dont play on that speaker....... your wasting this guy's time because you didn't read the post properly.........

I know if I have to keys held down and try to hit a 3rd one I'll get that same "beep" happens to me all the time while playing video games, as for why it's doing it when you max and min a window, not really sure about that... You have a key stuck down on your keyboard? are you holding down weird keys like maybe control, alt, or maybe others? Anything we should know about your computer? Like maybe you have a theme installed but you dont have drivers for your sound card? That will make it beep too...

Rewired

Yes I must reiterate the fact that this sound is coming from the computer itself and not the speakers. As for you questions, I do not have any themes running on my system. I’m not experiencing any stuck keys. The computer is used by me exclusively. I’m familiar with what the standard beep of the computer’s internal speaker sounds like. For example I hear them when I play certain Dos games, strangely though; this beep is about half the volume of a Dos beep. Also I feel I should point out again that I did try disabling my systems beeps in the device manager window. This didn’t resolve the issue.

profdlp

Unplug the internal speaker!

Seriously, the only thing it's good for is letting you know if something is a problem at boot time (which will be obvious soon enough when your computer doesn't start properly). If that happens, just plug the sucker back in so you can hear the problem beep code.

You might also hunt around in your bios to see if you can find anything regarding the internal speaker.

Clutch

Creep wrote:

Ok guys, it's comming from the internal speaker........ wav's dont play on that speaker....... your wasting this guy's time because you didn't read the post properly.........

Are you sure? I had a computer with only an internal speaker and I could listen to the entire addaboy radio show online, and it only had the internal speaker,so I wonder where the sound was coming from? Sorry for wasting someones time trying to help

Rewired

I would like to find an alternative to unplugging my internal speaker.

Rewired

This is getting extremely irritating. Clutch, I do hear the beep if an application is minimized and I alt+tab it open.

Geeky1

Shot in the dark here...

Try this for me:

go to your control panel, click "sounds, speech, and audio devices" (or, if you use the classic view, "sounds and audio devices"), on the window that opens up, click the "advanced" button under "Device volume". On the window that pops up, hit "options", go to "properties", and under "Show the following volume controls" check everything.

Start muting things one by one (don't mute the leftmost slider called "master"), until the sound goes away. If one doesn't do it, un-mute it so nothing else gets screwed up and move on to the next one. Try the one entitled "PC Speaker" first.