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!
Instead of that vbs script JJL posted, there is a simple one line command that will turn it off if you need to run it on lots of computers.
Simply run:
REG ADD HKCU\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating\.Current /ve /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /f /d “”
to disable it.
Oh man thanks for this information. That sound was bothering me big time. Thank you soo much …..
Your right I assume, it is equivilant to chinese water touture.
Regarding the annoying clicking sound generated by Internet Explorer. I’m using windows xp & I have done everthing to try to turn it off to no affect. I’ve gone through the sound & media icon and click on the sound tab and selected no sound entirely. There are no longer any other sounds including when I click on the mouse on a web page but the page refreshing itself still generate a sound every 10 seconds or closer. Please Help!!!
I have the same problem as a few of the others. Turning off all sound does not help and I’m anxious about running a registry code. Can someone please comment on whether that fixed their problem?
Dood! I found this site on a Google search. Thanks so much for the posting. Can’t tell you how the refresh click was driving me nuts. I wouldn’t have thought about “start navigation” as being the culprit.
THANK YOU!
Thanks so much, that was very helpful and super easy with your instructions!
Good stuff.
Chalk another one up to the IE annoyances list.
Thanks.
Thanks a ton, this really helped !
Thanks =)