Associating a Sound with an Event

If you want to hear audio cues for events in Windows—the closing of a program or the arrival of new e-mail, for example—you can assign sounds to those events. Windows Vista comes with a predesigned sound scheme that you can use, or you can create your own customized audio cues.

Use an Existing Sound Scheme

  1. Click the Start button, type sound in the Search box, and click Sound to display the Sound dialog box.

  2. On the Sounds tab, click the Sound Scheme list, and select a scheme. If only the Windows Default and the No Sounds ...

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