outlook express sound alert?

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Ralph

hi,

i have a question about the setting on outlook express
to "play sound when new messages arrive". Sounds crazy,
but I want to switch the sound it makes to one that beeps
continually until I open the email. I need this because
certain emails that arrive are very time sensitive that
need to be answered immediately and if I'm in another room
I need the sound alert to keep beeping in case I can't
hear the quick little beep the default sound setting
makes..

thanks!
 
In the new style Control Panel, go to Sounds, Speech &
Audio. At the bottom, choose Sound and Audio, and then
the second tab, Sounds. The list towards the bottom, is
for events, roughly a dozen events down is Incoming
mail..... put in any sound ya like, if you have a
microphone, record your own.
 
martin, thanks for responding, i was just fooling around
with that when you wrote, the thing is that there are no
sounds that just keep beeping until i manually turn them
off, that's what i need, something that keeps beeping
until i turn it off because if i'm out in the yard or far
away i need something to keep making noise....any clues??
 
Download a MIDI of a song you like and use it for New Mail
Notification. It wont play forever, but you can get the long version
of Freebird that's over 7 minutes long. Just do a MIDI search.
 
Bruce! what timing, i just came to that idea and am
cracking up because it's playing this long song i
programmed when i get a new email, the problem is, i can't
turn it off!! i have to listen to the whole song, not a
big deal, but to really perfect this, the sound would STOP
once I open the email, any ideas??
 
Have to experiment as I never used anything that long. Try opening
the mail, then switching to an e-mail you have already opened. Maybe,
Mark as read option, (put it on the toolbar). There has to be a way
to cancel the music. I don't have time right now to try it myself,
but if I do get time in the next 24 hours, I'll post back. Do
likewise if you find the answer. I'm sure it's out there, somewhere.

Good luck,
 
Maybe not continually, but enough times to get your attention. Open Sound Recorder (Start
button/All Programs/Accessories/Entertainment/Sound Recorder. When Sound Recorder is
open, click the File menu, click Open, and open the file C:\Windows\Media\DING.WAV

Then click the Edit menu, and click Copy. Then click the File menu and then click New.
Then click the Edit menu and click Paste Insert as many times as you want the sound.
After you've done it about 5 times, you might want to click the Edit menu and click Copy,
so that you can then click Paste Insert and have 5 dings pasted at a time. When you've
pasted as many dings as you want to the file (click the play arrow to see if the number of
dings suits your needs), click the File menu, click Save As, name the new file and save it
as a .WAV file in the Media folder.

The go to Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices, click the Sounds tab, and assign that
file to New Mail Notification.
 
Bruce, cant figure out how to stop the wav file once the
email comes in, that's ok i guess, i'll just have to turn
the volume off (the big problem with this though is
remembering every time to turn the volum BACK up when i
leave), the other thing now is finding a very long wav
(like over 5 or 10 minutes long) file that basically just
beeps...
 
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