Sally,
First go to TOOLS, Then down to OPTIONS, pick the GENERAL windows and make
sure that "Play Sounds" is checked under the "Send/Receive" (about half way
down the screen) that gives you the basic windows bell when a email comes
in. Now go to your Control panel, START then SETTINGS and over to CONTROL
PANEL then find the picture of the PC with a speaker called SOUNDS and
double click it.Under the window called EVENTS, scroll down until you see
"New Mail Notification", there should be a gold colored speaker next to it,
if not, then click on the New Mail Notification and right beneath that you
should see SOUNDS
and NAME with a pull down arrow on the right, click the pull down menu and
you should see a long list of sounds which read like "Chord.WAV" and things
like that, you can then select any of those and to the right of that is
another picture of the speaker with the words PREVIEW above it, you have two
buttons that look like the ones on a VCR, the Square one stops the sound,
the one with the right pointing triangle is the one you want, just click it
and you can see what the sound sounds like.
Now if you cannot find a preset file you like, then click BROWSE and it
should open up a folder called MEDIA which in my system has about 40 sounds
recorded, about 10 more just under Media-OFFICE and others from other
programs.
Now if you do not like the short ( and kinda boring) .WAV files that are
saved there, you can always download more, often from the "Themes" on the
Microsoft web page or some people go to the various cell phone companies
(Verizon, ATT, Cingular etc..) and download Ringtones as often they are wav
files or there are hundreds of links on the web that have huge collections
of WAV files or if you have a microphone with your PC you can make your own
or anyone with a Pocket PC can make them also. I had the first 10 seconds of
"Stairway to Heaven" on my mails, but it got to be a bit much...
Anyway don't let me long instructions scare you off (hey I am a engineer, I
cannot help it...) as its really very easy to set up the sounds. I think the
first time I went into SOUNDS I was there about 2 hours listening to the
sounds and changing and adding all kinds of sounds for the pc, then the
sounds started to get to me and I got rid of many of them.
If you need a special .wav file created , just let me know and I can
probably find it or make it for you as I do alot with Audio.
My email is listed in this message if you do a "reply to" just change the
0(Zero) that is in MSN.COM to a letter o, that's my spam defense on here. I
recorded my kitten once when she makes her little sounds, it was hilarious
as she would always come running when she heard that one
Hope this helps !
Tedd
