Missing Sounds In Outlook..?

[Seth Gordon]

Hello, I use Outlook 2007 (running Vista) for a good part of the day and it
wasn't until recently I realized that sounds.exe (downloaded from MS site)
wasn't always working. For instance I would click on the send/receive button
and the sound would play. I would click it again and nothing... It's not
that it's a big deal but now that I notice it, it's driving me nuts I
tried reinstalling sounds.exe, I tried reinstalling my soundcard drivers
(SoundBlater X-Fi Elite Pro), still nothing. Does anyone have any ideas what
could be cause this or how to fix it?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What sounds are you expecting when you press send/receive? The new mail notification will only play for new mail received every 5 minutes. Were you expecting something different? Or is this a different sound that you expect to play? Do you get the sounds for changing folders, or new mail, or once you send?

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After furious head scratching, Seth Gordon asked:

| Hello, I use Outlook 2007 (running Vista) for a good part of the day
| and it wasn't until recently I realized that sounds.exe (downloaded
| from MS site) wasn't always working. For instance I would click on
| the send/receive button and the sound would play. I would click it
| again and nothing... It's not that it's a big deal but now that I
| notice it, it's driving me nuts I tried reinstalling sounds.exe,
| I tried reinstalling my soundcard drivers (SoundBlater X-Fi Elite
| Pro), still nothing. Does anyone have any ideas what could be cause
| this or how to fix it?

 

[Seth Gordon]

I've always used the sounds.exe for office. When you click on "provide
feedback with sounds" option it directs you to this. Anyways, when you click
on send/receive it usually makes a "clicking" noise. It also makes sounds
when you click on folders, create new email, send email, etc. Like I said,
it's not that important, but it's one of those things, once you notice it, it
bothers you

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling? I have had to do so on a few of my machines over the years as the sounds seem to become dissociated from the Office program.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Seth Gordon asked:

| I've always used the sounds.exe for office. When you click on
| "provide feedback with sounds" option it directs you to this.
| Anyways, when you click on send/receive it usually makes a "clicking"
| noise. It also makes sounds when you click on folders, create new
| email, send email, etc. Like I said, it's not that important, but
| it's one of those things, once you notice it, it bothers you
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| What sounds are you expecting when you press send/receive? The new
|| mail notification will only play for new mail received every 5
|| minutes. Were you expecting something different? Or is this a
|| different sound that you expect to play? Do you get the sounds for
|| changing folders, or new mail, or once you send?
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Seth Gordon asked:
||
||| Hello, I use Outlook 2007 (running Vista) for a good part of the day
||| and it wasn't until recently I realized that sounds.exe (downloaded
||| from MS site) wasn't always working. For instance I would click on
||| the send/receive button and the sound would play. I would click it
||| again and nothing... It's not that it's a big deal but now that I
||| notice it, it's driving me nuts I tried reinstalling sounds.exe,
||| I tried reinstalling my soundcard drivers (SoundBlater X-Fi Elite
||| Pro), still nothing. Does anyone have any ideas what could be cause
||| this or how to fix it?