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Question

Random windows "notify" sound

Oct 3, 2014 4:02AM PDT

Help! I keep getting a random ********* sound from my desktop computer. It happens every couple of hours for no apparent reason. The sound is the windows wave file "notify" sound. Can anyone help me eliminate it? I'm running windows 7. Thanks you!

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Me too. Took a while to find.
Oct 3, 2014 4:07AM PDT

It turned out to be my cell phone. Every once in a while (hours and hours) it would lose it USB connection as the phone rebooted. Android is the new Windows.
Bob

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Me too too.
Oct 5, 2014 7:37AM PDT

Just ran across that......turned out to be the mouse.....go figure.

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mine was the kid's ipod
Oct 6, 2014 7:04AM PDT

I've told her not to leave it just lying around the living room.