All of a sudden something  changed. Any time I use the keyboard, in or
out of programs, it does not matter when this happens: after 3 seconds
of no keyboard input there is a dingeling sound, a note starting high
and going down is the best way to describe it. It is a window type
sound. It drives me nuts! I am using XP Home, Dell Inspiron 8500. Dell
has no idea except reinstall XP (not going to happen, I rather go back
to Win2000 but hope I don't have to do that). Deleting keyboard driver
and let XP reinstall it, no good. Is there a way to force xp to import
a new driver rather then reusing the existing one? Dell says the
driver is part of xp. It does not do it in DOS, so not a hardware
problem. Help!?
regards, Axel

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Clarification of Question by axel_wg-ga on 16 Feb 2004 18:12 PST

seems I posted the same question twice, I had to change my cedit card.
This question is now dead, see the other one. Thank you for your
comment, all hardware was tested o.k.
Axel

Hi Axel...

Per your instructions on question # 307393:

"I think I figured it out, the other question is # 307396,
 a higher # that must be the good credit card, please place
 your answer there!"

...I will post my the answer here:

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I would suggest going to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel
-> Sounds & Multimedia, and reviewing the sounds associated
with the events there. See if you can locate the sound you
are referring to, and see what event it is associated with.

As I suspected, this led you to an awareness of which program
was utilizing the sound, for which event.

You noted:
"...it is the 'alps pointing device, the sound is 'easy launcher'
 and 'typing with tap enabled'".

...and...

"I uninstalled the driver for my touchpad, restarted computer
 and the problem is solved."

In case you decide you'd prefer to have the functionality of
the Alps Mouse Utility, there is a .pdf file which contains
a user's guide for this program, starting on page 25 of the
file. Also, there is a page describing the 'Sound Feedback'
of the utility, and how to modify the sound settings, on 
page 37 of the .pdf file, which can be found on the ASUS
Notebook Italian site (the file is in English), here:
http://notebook.asus.it/documenti/manuali/L7000%20Sw.pdf


Additional information can be gleaned from an exploration of
the links resulting from the Google searches, outlined below.

Please do not rate this answer until you are satisfied that
the answer cannot be improved upon by way of a dialog
established through the "Request for Clarification" process.

sublime1-ga


Searches done, via Google:

"easy launcher" "typing with tap enabled" touchpad
://www.google.com/search?q=%22easy+launcher%22+%22typing+with+tap+enabled%22+touchpad

Alps "easy launcher"
://www.google.com/search?q=Alps+%22easy+launcher%22

"Alps mouse utility"
://www.google.com/search?q=%22Alps+mouse+utility%22

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Request for Answer Clarification by axel_wg-ga on 16 Feb 2004 20:21 PST

I hope this is the right card, let me know otherwise,
Axel

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Clarification of Answer by sublime1-ga on 16 Feb 2004 21:09 PST

Hi Alex...

I hope it's the right card, too, but I have no way of
determining that. I'm an independent researcher, and 
have no internal connection to Google Answers or its
billing department.

Your logic that the latest question has the correct
card seems right to me, but if you're unsure, you 
could always drop a line to the GA Editors at
mailto:answers-editors@google.com  They can make
certain there's no problem with your card.

Thanks for the 5-star rating. It was a pleasure
working with you.

sublime1-ga

Quick response, pointed me in the right direction, problem solved!

Howdy, axel_wg-ga,

Have you tried using a different keyboard?  Regardless of the
problem not appearing in DOS, there are Window hooks into the
keyboard routines which might manifest themselves with a bad
keyboard/cable/connector.

Looking Forward, denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher

Have you tried any diagnostics progams to find and fix problem?