How to turn off that annoying IE clicking sound
I recently installed IE 7 Beta 2 and the installation enabled a setting so that IE plays a *clicking* sound whenever I click on a link.
A couple of points
- (IMO) Upgrades should, in general, maintain existing preferences
- The particular clicking sound is terribly irritating to me.
- It's so obvious that I have clicked, I don't feel I need the reminder.
How to disable the clicking sound programmatically
- Just need to set a registry key (see the code for the path)
- NOTE: The code I have preovided is more generic than strictly needed because the code snippet comes from a larger script I use to disable other sounds.
- The translation to .REG file or another scripting language is straighforward.
Python Example
# -------------------------
import os
import sys
import win32com.client
def turn_off_app_event_sound( app, event ) :
wsh = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")
regpath = 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\AppEvents\\Schemes\\Apps\\%s\\%s\\.Current\\' % ( app, event )
wsh.RegWrite( regpath, '' , 'REG_SZ' )
def turn_off_ie_navigating_sound() :
turn_off_app_event_sound( "Explorer", "Navigating" )
if (__name__=='__main__') :
turn_off_ie_navigating_sound()
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