How can I stop that annoying "dripping" sound that's coming out of my
computer every time I browse the net?  I have already turned off the
sound associated with my pop-up blocker, yet the sound persists.  My
dad thinks it is a sound associated with cookies.  But I know there is
some way to disable it, because my computer at home does not make this
annoying sound.

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Request for Question Clarification by denco-ga on 25 Dec 2005 21:18 PST

Howdy apachemd-ga,

I am going to post this as request for clarification to make sure the
following works for you.

Go to Start, then Settings, then Control Panel, then Sound and Audio
Devices.  Click on the Sounds tab.  Scroll down to Windows Explorer
section, and find and click on the entry marked "Start Navigation."

In the Sounds menu area below the above area, click the down arrow,
then scroll up to find the (None) entry.  Click on that, then Apply
and OK and that should take care of it.

If that takes care of your problem, please tell me so I can then post
this as the answer to your question.  Thanks!

Looking Forward, denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher

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Clarification of Question by apachemd-ga on 27 Dec 2005 07:25 PST

Denco -- please see below.

I don't know if this is the same thing at all,  but one of my office
colleagues has a periodic  dripping sound on his computer, too, which
is truly annoying.  He says it's some kind of automatic news /weather
feed or something that he once subscribed to.  Have you looked at the
bottom of your computer screen on the right, where all the little
icons are to see if there's anything there that's not something you
want or need?   I'm not techie at all, but when I saw the words
"dripping sound," that's the first thing I thought of.

Here is a very easy answer to your question...

The source of the sound is "cookiecrunch.wav" which should be located
in your PestPatrol directory...

Most likely:

 c:/program files/pest patrol/cookiecrunch.wav


Simply delete that wav and the annoying sound will no longer be heard.
You can also disable pest patrol to get rid of the cookie crunching
wav sound being played.


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Solution found by searching google... 
://www.google.com/search?q=firefox%20dripping%20noise

which lead to... http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Odma505xBy8J:www.freewebspace.net/forums/archive/index.php/f-29-p-7.html+firefox+dripping+noise&hl=en


Let me know if this worked for you

-Mike

Denco  -- thanks very much for taking the time to reply... I was going
to try what you suggested -- it may indeed have worked -- but I went
ahead and tried Tuka's suggestion first, and it worked perfectly! 
Thanks for your input!

Cryptica -- that's a good thought but I don't have any such program
loaded and there's nothing at the lower right on my task bar... thanks
though :-).


Tuka -- your solution worked like a charm :-)!  It took me all of 30
seconds to find and delete that file and waalaaahh - that chinese
water torture-like dripping noise is gone!  Please post it as the
official answer and I'd be happy to relinquish payment... thanks!

Howdy apachemd-ga,

Glad that tuka-ga's comment was the solution to your problem.  Please be
aware that tuka-ga is not a Google Answers Researcher, and thus is not
able to be post anything other than comments.

Looking Forward, denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher

I'm glad it worked for you.

Merry Christmas

-Mike