the sounds I hear when I get notified a new e-mail has arrived

Help! How do I control the sounds my laptop makes? Is this
a Yahoo Messenger issue, a Dell issue, IE,Desktop theme,
Windows ME, or what? All I know is I get startled when
I've got Yahoo Messenger open, and then I get notified
when an e-mail has arrived. The noise it makes when
someone has replied to a chat that I've minimized is OK,
but I'd still like to know what my options are regarding
all those sounds.These noises make me nervous.
Thank you very,very much for your help.

JoJo
Thu Sep 25 00:15:26 CDT 2003

Go into the Control Panel and open up Sounds and
Multimedia. Hopefully all the Yahoo add-ons will be in the
lsit, and you can go down the list and preview every sound
event. When you find what you want, you can open that file
up with Sound Recorder and tone the volume down a little,
at 25 percent at a time.

The sound files will be in the Windows>Media folder. I'd
make a safety copy and fool with it if you haven't done
this kind of thing before. And there are better programs
to manipulate sound files, but the Sound Recorder will do
in a pinch.

Hope that helps.