REPOST - ANNOYING BEEP ON ALL MOUSECLICKS

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Any assistance on the below most appreciated. This beep is driving me
mad ...

For the last few months (don't know exactly how long since I generally
use my PC with sounds muted) the system beep sounds at EVERY mouseclick
(both right and left). I have checked Sounds in the Sound and Audio
Devices
control panel and disabled all beep-related settings, to no avail. I
also
installed TweakUI but there didn't appear to be any tools of relevance
to this
issue in that interface (although I have found other useful stuff there
....).

I already disabled the Beep driver under Non-Plug and Play Drivers
(revealed in the Show Hidden Devices view menu item under Device
Manager).

System particulars:
IBM T40 laptop, 768 MB RAM, Windows XP/SP2
Thanks in advance!

-David
kalichild --> hotmail

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Yves Leclerc wrote:

> Check in the mouse drivers??
>
> Check in the laptop BIOS???
>
> "kalichild" <kalichild@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1106333872.584469.285170@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>> <message originally posted to
>> microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support with no responses>
>>
>> Any assistance on the below most appreciated. This beep is driving me
>> mad ...
>>
>> For the last few months (don't know exactly how long since I
>> generally use my PC with sounds muted) the system beep sounds at
>> EVERY mouseclick (both right and left). I have checked Sounds in the
>> Sound and Audio Devices
>> control panel and disabled all beep-related settings, to no avail. I
>> also
>> installed TweakUI but there didn't appear to be any tools of
>> relevance to this
>> issue in that interface (although I have found other useful stuff
>> there ...).
>>
>> I already disabled the Beep driver under Non-Plug and Play Drivers
>> (revealed in the Show Hidden Devices view menu item under Device
>> Manager).
>>
>> System particulars:
>> IBM T40 laptop, 768 MB RAM, Windows XP/SP2
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -David
>> kalichild --> hotmail
>>
Actually, it sounds to me like you are having a hardware problem.
Troubleshoot this by:

a) Trying a different mouse. If the sounds go away, throw the first
mouse out.

b) Try the mouse on a different computer. If it works well, the problem
is with your computer.

c) Since you didn't say whether you are using a usb mouse, ps/2 mouse
with UltraBase, or this is with the built-in mouse buttons on the
ThinkPad, I wrote the above about switching the mouse. If you are using
the ThinkPad buttons exclusively, then I would definitely call IBM tech
support as there is a good chance the problem is with the laptop
hardware.

Malke
--
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"

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Some laptops have a BIOS setting to turn on clicks for keyboards and mice maybe something got turned
on there.
--
Dave Vair
CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+
Computer Education Services Corp. (CESC)

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> If you are running McAfee Firewall 3.03, check your settings here:
>
> 1) Run McAfee Firewall
> 2) Choose "Pick a Task"
> 3) Configure Advanced Settings
> 4) Choose "Configure Network Adapter Settings"
> 5) Choose your NIC and press "View or change properties"
> 6) On all the tabs uncheck
> "Report allowed traffic" and "Report blocked traffic"
>
> If this is not the case and you have delved within Accessibility Options, revert.
>
> Good luck and keep us posted.
>
> --
> All the Best,
> Kelly (MS-MVP)
>
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>
>
> "kalichild" <kalichild@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1106333872.584469.285170@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>> <message originally posted to
>> microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support with no responses>
>>
>> Any assistance on the below most appreciated. This beep is driving me
>> mad ...
>>
>> For the last few months (don't know exactly how long since I generally
>> use my PC with sounds muted) the system beep sounds at EVERY mouseclick
>> (both right and left). I have checked Sounds in the Sound and Audio
>> Devices
>> control panel and disabled all beep-related settings, to no avail. I
>> also
>> installed TweakUI but there didn't appear to be any tools of relevance
>> to this
>> issue in that interface (although I have found other useful stuff there
>> ...).
>>
>> I already disabled the Beep driver under Non-Plug and Play Drivers
>> (revealed in the Show Hidden Devices view menu item under Device
>> Manager).
>>
>> System particulars:
>> IBM T40 laptop, 768 MB RAM, Windows XP/SP2
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -David
>> kalichild --> hotmail
>>
>
>

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kalichild wrote:

> All:
>
> Thanks much for comments on this. I checked the bios as suggested with
> no indication of the issue there.
>
> As mentioned in my last post, I started unloading all of my background
> processes, and it appears that the problem was with
> one of the Synaptics drivers (SynTPLpr.exe to be exact), as the
> beeping went away once I unloaded.
> I reinstalled it from clean and everything is fine now. I can only
> infer that the driver got stepped on somewhere.
>
> Thanks so much to everyone for comments on this most obnoxious of
> issues.
>
> -David//kalichild

Glad you got it sorted and thanks for posting the answer. It will help
others who may have this problem in the future.

Malke
--
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"