Rimshot Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Hi all, Sometimes things happen I cannot figure out. Out of a sudden (at least I'm stumped what caused it) I get a sound when I select an aircraft in the FSX selection menu. The moment I click any aircraft Windows plays the default sound 'ding.wav'. Has anyone ever had this weird problem before? You can imagine I find it very annoying and I hope someone will know a solution for this. I also posted about this at other forums and there seem to be others that got the sound out of the blue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukester Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I get this all the time & thought it was a default sound of FSX confirming that you have made a selection. It is annoying and I would be keen to know the answer too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeTops Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Is this not a default windows sound? Turn windows sound to none and check again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimshot Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 Is this not a default windows sound? Turn windows sound to none and check again. It is indeed the Windows default sound. Shutting down all system sounds in Windows control panel eliminates the problem. (I already had tried that, but forgot to mention this in my original post). Ofcourse doing this eliminates all system sounds. I posted here and elsewhere to evaluate if others experience the sound upon selecting an aircraft as well, and if it has always been like that. I am quite positive the ding.wav never sounded before when I selected an aircraft. Something must have triggered it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John York Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Probably one of the automatic updates? To be truthful it's never bothered me. I just take it as a confirmation I've done something - which is all it is really. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penzoil3 Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 In FSX, select " Sounds" , then uncheck the box that says " user interface sounds". Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimshot Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 Thanks for the feedback guys. In FSX, select " Sounds" , then uncheck the box that says " user interface sounds". Sue, it is not a FSX interface sound I'm talking about. If you select these in the FSX sound options you'll get a 'dry click' sound. The issue here is that FSX plays the Windows default sound, a file called 'Ding.wav', upon selecting an aircraft. I've posted over at another forum and reveived this reply by a guy named Paul: It's not a "Windows" configurable item. I think the 'ding' is played by the IE window/activeX control used by the FSX GUI Windows update may have applied a correction to the SxS assemblies, which changed behaviour of that IE window/activeX control, exposing a previously non-working "ding" call. I'd need to run Process Monitor on an old FSX non-updated installation to confirm. It certainly affected the behaviour of the tabbed dialog mechanism as used on the Mission briefing pages Looks plausible to me. It really may have been triggered by one of the Windows updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John York Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Told you so! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimshot Posted April 17, 2009 Author Share Posted April 17, 2009 Told you so! John, you are a genius! ;D I've dissociated the ding.wav from the default system sound. Much better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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