Windows and its associated sound effects
I don't know if I'm just a bit prickly today, but this thing has annoyed me intensely in the past, and I'm reminded of it every time I turn on my computer speakers.

The browsing system on Windows XP. Whenever you click any button or icon that changes the directory in which you're looking, it makes this 'click' sound.

And it's a horrible little click. It sounds even more artificial than the fake shutter click that mobile phone cameras make, and has this ghastly, chewy, wet quality that puts my teeth on edge for some reason.

Yes, I know I can turn it off and I think I'm about to do so, but I just thought I'd see if anyone here had a similar hatred for it...
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 21 May 2009, 13:41, 7 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I only associate it with explorer
and don't hear it on XP for some reason.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 21 May 2009, 13:44, Reply)

I stubbed my toe once, it hurt, but then it got better.
*has nothing to add, but wanted to reply*
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 21 May 2009, 13:45, Reply)

I don't sweat the small stuff.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 21 May 2009, 13:51, Reply)

I think I know the one
It usually comes up on Internet explorer though. Every. Time. You click a "back" or "forward" or "go". Thankfully I almost exclusively use firefox though.


Dragging this slightly offtopic, back when I purchased my PC it was just the one account on it. MY flatmate wanted a piece of the glorious fun and games so created a new profile/account.

So I hit the power, letting the PC slowly startup and by the time I'm downstairs, made tea, got Kit-Kats and returned I would expect it to be sitting on the desktop, Virus scans complete and ready to go.

Instead thanks to that cunt starting a new account it sits on the account page and I have to hit return and wait for it all to load/scan etc.

O.K. so the time wasted is only about 5 minutes, but 5 minutes everyday for 3 years is a fucking bastard thanks to some greedy cunt who wanted porn from my PC.

I've tried deleting all the accounts apart from Admin but the PC insists on asking if anyone wants to log on. Bahhhhhh
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 21 May 2009, 13:53, Reply)

you can get it to automatically log in to a certain account
what are you, thick?
(PsychoChomp, Thu 21 May 2009, 13:56, Reply)

Yes
I did actually faff around in the settings though to no avail...
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 21 May 2009, 14:39, Reply)

don't say I never give you anything
support.microsoft.com/kb/315231
(PsychoChomp, Thu 21 May 2009, 15:03, Reply)