System sounds - this is the musical accompaniment that is played during certain actions in the OS. For example, the appearance of an alert, an error on the screen, windows pivot, and so on. The user can manually adjust all these short tunes.
How to open settings in Windows?
Regardless of the release and edition of the operating system, the developers left one common way to customize sounds. To do this, use the following guide:
- On the taskbar, find the sound icon.
- Right-click on it to open an additional menu.
- Now open the Sounds section.
- You will immediately see the desired tab. Consider its contents in more detail.
Sound scheme
Looking ahead, we will stop on sound schemes. The user can combine various sounds and settings, and then save the finished profile. To do this, you need to set the parameters and click on the "Save As" button. Now you need to enter the name of the scheme and click "OK".
You can switch between schemes of system sounds using a special drop-down list. If you name the blanks as simple and straightforward as possible, then you can change the sound design for various tasks in a couple of mouse clicks. For example, turn off all extraneous sounds, except for important notifications, during operation and so on.
Program Events
System sounds are only related to what Windows itself is responsible for. In this list you can select a separate signal for each action from three categories: general Windows, Explorer and Windows Speech Recognition.
The first category includes events related to system notifications (exclamation, program closure, account control, critical error, etc.). Those positions that have a musical alert are marked with a megaphone icon on the left.
The category "Explorer" means the Windows system sounds that are played when performing any actions in the folders (switching between categories, emptying the recycle bin, moving items, and so on). The third section includes voice alerts in English.
Change sounds
First you need to highlight one of the Windows actions, followed by a notification. After that, the menu for selecting a standard melody will become active below. Before use, you can listen to the sound by clicking on the "Check" button.
If nothing was found among the standard alerts, then using the "Browse" button you can go to the explorer and select your own melody. Remember that only WAV files are supported.