Customizing your computer sounds

Just as there are visual themes, Windows also provides sound themes for events that occur in Windows and other programs. These events include the sounds you hear when starting or exiting windows and when receiving new mail, warnings, and errors, to name a few. There quite a few things you can do with Windows sounds to suit your needs:

• Turn on or off the sound played at Windows startup
• Turn off Windows events sounds completely
• Change the sound scheme
• Change or turn off the sound assigned to a specific event
• Mute sounds

In next section, you'll learn how to use and change the Control Panel's sound and volume settings.