My machine keeps making that irritating balloon-tip "pop" noise every 40
seconds or so. Balloon-tips are disabled. I have nothing running in the
background that shouldn't be. This is driving me insane.

Any ideas as to how to stop it (short of disabling all system sounds, that's
not acceptable)?

Thanks

Colin

Hello,

If you are not able to find the cause of the problem, you can workaround
temporarily by switching off the balloon pop noise:

Start > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Sounds (tab) > Program
events - System Notification > set to (none)

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"colin." <colin###@###j0o.com> wrote in message
news:E_oZh.9206$(E-Mail Removed)...
> My machine keeps making that irritating balloon-tip "pop" noise every 40
> seconds or so. Balloon-tips are disabled. I have nothing running in the
> background that shouldn't be. This is driving me insane.
>
> Any ideas as to how to stop it (short of disabling all system sounds,
> that's not acceptable)?
>
> Thanks
>
> Colin
>

Check your "event" sounds...something is triggering the "pop"
sound. Go through them one at a time.

Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices/Sounds
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Doug W.
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"colin." <colin###@###j0o.com> wrote in message
news:E_oZh.9206$(E-Mail Removed)...
> My machine keeps making that irritating balloon-tip "pop"
> noise every 40 seconds or so. Balloon-tips are disabled. I
> have nothing running in the background that shouldn't be.
> This is driving me insane.
>
> Any ideas as to how to stop it (short of disabling all system
> sounds, that's not acceptable)?
>
> Thanks
>
> Colin
>