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Strange Intermittent Background Sound in Windows 7
What process is making that sound?

I am have a random (seems random) beeping sound from my speaker in my Windows 7 machine

Even if I have no program opened I have the sound

Is there a way to know what process is emitting the sound? Like a history of all sound files used?

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Nick Ginanto
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If this happens frequent enough, you could right click the audio icon in the notification area and click on Open Volume Mixer; there you can see which application is currently playing audio. There is no history available for this, and it is really impractical to figure out the sound file given that it might not have an obvious extension. Process Explorer allows you to search for open handles, just hit CTRL+F and search for common extensions like .wav and .mp3 and so on...

Tamara Wijsman
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Some hard drives seem to be able to emit a "beep" sound. If your beep is accompanied with a click, it's probably the hard drive. See e.g. http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19365865.aspx

Jan Schejbal
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