Disable a certain windows sound

[Caleb7]

When you press any key on the desktop or inside a folder, it makes a "bliiing" sound if there is no file starting with the letter you pressed.  I just want the sound to not happen. If there is a file that starts with the letter you pressed, it tries to select that file and there is no sound.  What I am trying to do is make it so I won't hear this sound even if there is no file that matched.

Someone suggested I do HotkeySet, and the sound goes away for that key.  I want to replicate that without setting hotkeys, because I don't need hotkeys for anything.

I wish I had some examples of code I have tried, but unfortunately I haven't got the faintest clue for where to start.  I am not new to autoit and I could use some guidance in the right direction for this.

 

Thanks!

 

[JLogan3o13]

I guess I am not understanding why you need code. If you don't want a particular sound, go into control panel>>change system sounds and disable the appropriate sound.

[Bert]

here is the answer you are looking for: http://bfy.tw/MTD8
It will tell you exactly how to deal with that sound issue.

[Earthshine]

you could write a script to disable the windows default sounds. but why? because on my system at work, every time I boot it resets back to default sounds, possibly due to our domain policies and such. anyway, a script that runs as task is what you want in that case, run it after user login, windows sounds set to nothing and you won't hear it anymore ever... lol

[careca]

This is where you change sounds

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default

[Caleb7]

On 2/25/2019 at 10:14 AM, Earthshine said:

you could write a script to disable the windows default sounds. but why? because on my system at work, every time I boot it resets back to default sounds, possibly due to our domain policies and such. anyway, a script that runs as task is what you want in that case, run it after user login, windows sounds set to nothing and you won't hear it anymore ever... lol

Yes this is why I need it.

 

On 2/25/2019 at 8:17 AM, Bert said:

here is the answer you are looking for: http://bfy.tw/MTD8
It will tell you exactly how to deal with that sound issue.

I wondering if there was anything inside autoit to do it, I've google'd it already, no need to be a cuck.

 

On 2/25/2019 at 11:29 AM, careca said:

This is where you change sounds

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default

Thank you.

[Caleb7]

Basically I was wondering how HotKeySet works to disable the sound so I could replicate it, but it's all good, I'll just edit the registry on boot.

[LarsJ]

HotKeySet() does not deactivate the sound. HotKeySet() simply doesn't forward the keystroke to the active window, and the active window does not respond to the keystroke of course.

This is actually described in the help file just below the form.