My PC keeps making a mouse click sound that happens when you open a folder or click a link on the internet. Thing is- it does it when nothing is open and there is no user activity.
It's almost like there's a ghost opening folders and clicking links in the background!
Hope someone can help?
See if it's the sound set to play under Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> "Change system sounds", the 7th from the end of the list - "Start Navigation". One of the first things I do on a new install of Windows is set that "Start Navigation" to "None" at the lower left corner.
If that's the sound, but you prefer to leave it on, it's going to likely be a long process figuring out which process (as noted by @DaveRook above) is "navigating".
Using Process Monitor, I found that sdxhelper.exe was causing this on my computer in December 2018. This executable is a background process used for updating Microsoft Office and is cryptographically signed by Microsoft, so it appears to be legitimate.
In order to find this, I started process monitor, applied a filter to path containing ".wav" and let it run until the click happened again.
One of my users had it. He was hearing the "C:\Windows\Media\Windows Navigation Start.wav" 2 times per second every time he opened some Office application, for example PowerPoint. His Office 365 password was out of sync with his Active Directory password. When he logged in to Office 365 with his current password then he didn't hear the "clicks" anymore.
Openvpntray was causing the issue on my computer I guess it is some sort of privacy/security software I have on here.
The kill processes till it stops method works... luckily it was probably only the 4th one I killed.
..I did a reboot and confirmed it by killing it first now to fix or remove it.
I had found this similar issue and found that it was bittorrent.exe client. Killing it stopped the sound.
I read another users answer and tried what they suggested with a similar application and it worked. My issue was UTorrent. All I did was close the application and the sound stopped instantly. So, if you have something like bit torrent or Utorrent, close it and see if that stops it. If not, then it could be a background app or there even some viruses that cause this to happen.
