Jontas » Windows Vista

Disable (or change) the Click sound in Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer

jontas — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:24:06 +0000

When you open a folder in Windows Explorer a click sound is played. To disable this there are two ways to do it:

Turn it off using the control panel:
1. Open “Start”->”Settings”->”Control Panel”
2. Open up “Sounds and Audio Devices”
3. Open the tab that says “Sounds”
4. Scroll down until you find “Windows Explorer”->”Start Navigation”
5. When you mark this line at the bottom there is a drop down that is labeled “Sounds:” Here you should be able to change to anther sound or “none” if you do not wish a click.
The second option is a bit more direct and rude – but if the above does not work for you (for me something kept resetting the old sound); just remove the file that contains the click sound.
1. Open up a Windows Explorer and go to “%windir%\Media” and find the file that is named “Windows XP Start.wav”
2. Either remove it (permanently) or rename it to something that windows won’t recognize (but you can – so you later can reverse this if you would like to)

jontas — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:41:22 +0000

Finding the mac address of a windows machine is most easily done by typing “ipconfig /all” in the command prompt.

Hint: Verify that the mac for the correct interface is used. If there are several adapters (this list includes virutal adapters and vpn adapters).

jontas — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:15:58 +0000

For vista machines you need to add the following lines to the conf file.

route-method exe
route-delay 2

jontas — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:46:22 +0000

In vista all you have to do is to open the control panel and enter uac in the search box, and you will find the correct option.