Sound

Articles, reviews, and tutorials about audio products: headphones, speakers, microphones, and other types of gear. Learn more about how they work, how to set them up, how to troubleshoot audio problems.

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How to disable or enable the startup sound in Windows

Ciprian Adrian Rusen
08.11.2016

Does your Windows computer play a sound each time you start it, just before showing the sign in screen? At first, you might like this sound but after so many years of using Windows computers and devices, you may find

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How to disable the system beep sound in Windows

Ciprian Adrian Rusen
11.01.2016

When you press the wrong key on a Windows PC, when an error dialog pops up or when you use the volume control, you hear a beep. After doing this a couple of times, that beep can get quite annoying.

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When Is Each Sound From A Windows Sound Scheme Played?

Codrut Neagu
29.10.2014

A few days ago, one of our readers asked us an interesting question: "is there a place where I can check when does a Windows sound play?". While we have shown how to customize the sound scheme in Windows, we

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How to Record Audio with the Sound Recorder App in Windows 8.1

Vlad Falon
12.02.2014

Windows 8.1 includes a reasonably large bundle of apps when you install it. One of these apps is Sound Recorder. This is a very interesting app that allows you to record sounds, trim their length, save them and share them

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Set Windows to Play Alarm Sounds When Reaching Low or Critical Battery

Ciprian Adrian Rusen
17.04.2013

Some of our readers have asked how they can set Windows 7 or Windows 8 so that it plays an alarm sound when the battery or their laptop or tablet reaches a low or critically low level. Such alarms can