Stop Internet Explorer Clicking Sound…
Many websites that have been designed to continuously monitor specific events use an automatic refresh to ensure the most recent data is visible. This is usually accomplished either through a REFRESH META tag in the HTML header, or by using JavaScript to set an elapsed time after which the page is refreshed. Other more complicated and sometimes less desirable methods use Flash or Java applets to continuously access data directly from the database.
An often annoying side effect is that Microsoft Internet Explorer (at least on Windows platforms) makes a clicking sound at every refresh, the same sound made when clicking a hyperlink or pressing a form button. Refreshing a web page every five seconds could become the modern-day equivalent of Chinese water torture.
If you have a web application that is likely to be sitting and refreshing for long periods of time, and you wish to get rid of the clicking sound without simply turning your speakers down or off, you’re in luck. The good news is that it can be done. The potentially bad news is that turning the sound off is a system-wide feature; no websites you view will click. There is no way currently to specify that an individual page or website should not click. It’s all or none.
To remove the sound, start with your Control Panel.
- On Windows 95/98/2000, doubleclick on the “Sounds and Multimedia” icon and choose the “Sounds” tab.
- On Windows XP, doubleclick the “Sounds and Audio Devices” icon and choose the “Sounds” tab.
- On Windows NT, just doubleclick the “Sounds” icon.
From here, the instructions are the same for each of the above operating systems. Scroll down in the “Sound Events” window until you reach the “Windows Explorer” section. In this section there is a “Start Navigation” option to assign sounds to. In the “Name” Drop down menu select “None” and then hit “OK”.
Done!
THANK YOU! I’ve hated this clicking noise for the longest time and have always turned my speakers down. It’s great now
Todd
Hello,
Everyones problem is solved except mine. I did exactly as said by whats his face at the top about selecting ‘None’ in the ‘Start navigation’ under ‘Windows Explorer’ in ‘Sounds and Devices’ only to find it was already set to ‘None’. The clicking is pretty new to me, recently I downloaded ‘Avira AntiVir’ and also ‘Mozilla Firefox’. As the clicking started some time after after these were installed I can only assume it is coming from them. I did a virus scan with ‘Avira AntiVir’ and got rid of about 3 or 4 different viruses/worms with thousands of copies of themselves.
If its any help I’ve tried selecting ‘No sound’ under ‘Sound scheme’ just above the ’sound events’ bit but even then the clicking doesn’t stop. It is coming from my speakers and starts before I have even logged on to my user on the Windows welcome screen! I’m thinking its probably a virus but none of the following have picked up anything:
‘Avira AntiVir’
‘McAfee Antivirus’ (fairly old i.e I haven’t payed for the new subscription yet, since about christmas)
‘Spy-bot’
‘Ad-Aware’
‘Windows Defender’
I have no idea of how to stop it except for turning down the speakers. Could somebody please help or give me the name of the best anti viruses and where they excell and don’t.
Thank you very much for any replies.
From Tim
Also, it seems that the harder my computer works the faster the clicking goes.
Thanks, Tim
Thank you thank you thank you. Two gateway tech support people could not help me with this. I got new speakers and can’t listen to music while navigating because of that dámn click. This was extremely helpful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you! For a while I didn’t even pay attention to this noise, then today it just got to be too annoying and I went looking for a fix. Thanks a bunch.
Thanks guys, I Googled “clicking on speakers” and ended up here. No more clicking.
Thank you, Christine.
Thank you so much. i’m listening to an online radio station that updates the song list every 10 seconds, and you’re right, that clicking was like chinese water torture. thanks so much!
Thank you, thank you
HI,
Thanks for this. I have an Active Desktop setup on 70+ call centre machines to provide real-time data to the staff and the clicking noise was being sent down the headset everytime the page refreshed! How very annoying!
Using the key provided i’ve now disabled it via a script.
Also, in regards to JJL’s helpful script, download it, right-click it, edit it, read it, if you don’t understand it, or it downloads malware from a server, don’t run it! Easy!.
Thanks again.
Thank You 10^10 times!