11th July 2000
Want two tips for the price of one? I was reading one of my favorite e-mail newsletters the other day (the LangaList, written by Fred Langa at LANGA.COM). That's your first tip: subscribe. In a recent issue, one of his regular readers submitted an interesting workaround for getting around sounds. When the sound of silence is what you crave, you can easily turn off your speakers. But what if you wanna hear some and not others? Easy; change their association in the Control Panel applet. Here's where it gets interesting: you can record a blank WAV file and rename it to replace any sound(s) in the Windows media folder. DING.WAV can still exist... at least, in name. Applications will still call upon DING.WAV (even those not listed in the Control Panel). You won't experience any error messages -- or unwarranted playback.