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Playing music while you work makes a day at the office much more pleasant. However having the usual system sounds interrupt the music can be quite annoying. Especially if you use programs that constantly beeps or make disturbing sounds. The old-school solution would be to disable system sounds all together. In Windows 7 there’s a faster way…
Volume Mixer
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Right-Click the speaker icon in your System Tray, and choose Volume Mixer. In the Volume dialog window you now see the volume lever for each application that use sounds. Beneath each lever is a speaker icon. Clicking an icon will mute the selected channel. Clicking it at again will enable it.
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Computer geek from the age of 7, which amounts to 30 years of computer experience. From the early days (when every computer company had their own OS) of DOS, Windows 1.0 through Seven...
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