Is it possible to change the "mail received" sound in Outlook ?

[geofg]

The little bleep that sounds is easy to miss. I would like change it like
can be done in other mailers.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Yep, its changed via the Sounds & Audio Devices applet in the control panel.
(Sounds tab and then look for new mail notification)

 

[geofg]

Thanks neo, is it possible to import sound.wav file for this.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

sure... put the *.wav file in c:\windows\media and it will show up in the
list. anywhere else on a local hard drive and you have to use the browse
button on that sounds tab to get it assigned to the sound event.

 

[Ñukallatak]

If I'm running both Windows Live and MS Outlook 2007 on the same computer,
how can I have separate sound files for mail arrival? I don't want them to
use the same sound file for message arrivals.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Assign different sounds

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[Roady [MVP]]

Yes, but the question was "how" ;-)
They both use the default Windows sounds and don't have an in-application
option to change the sound clip.

In Outlook you can disable the default sound and then use a rule to play a
specific sounds. It would be similar to;
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/178