Addicted to Noise: Customizing Sound on Your Windows 95 PC
Downloading sound files from the Web to use as your PC's sounds -- to do everything from alert you to when you have e-mail to bark at you when you minimize or maximize a window -- is one of the best ways to personalize your computer and make the work day more fun.
There are sites with thousands of sound clips from Seinfeld to Monty Python to a ringing phone (this is the sound I use to alert me to new e-mail).
Now that you know about the plethora of sounds available on the Web, let’s walk through the process of adding sound to your Windows 95 desktop. I will show you how to do it in four easy steps.
- Step One: Most of the sites list the sounds as .wav or .mid files. To save one of the files on your hard drive for later use, simply right-click on the file name and use the Save Link As option. Once you've saved it on your hard drive, make a note of what folder it is in so that you can find it later. You may want to create a special folder for storing your sound files.
- Step Two: Go to the Control Panel section of Windows (you can get here through either clicking on My Computer icon or going to Settings in the start menu).
- Step Three: From Control Panel, click on the Sounds icon. You will see a list of all of the possible times your desktop can make a sound (such as when you Start Windows, when you get New Mail and when you Exit Windows).
- Step Four: Click on the sound that you want to change. You can preview existing sounds that come with Windows 95 or you can add downloaded sound files to the list (you do this by using the Browse feature). After you've chosen your sounds, click OK. Your sounds should be ready to go.
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