This is one of those things which I cannot believe I tolerated in the past – The annoying clicking sounds IE makes every single time you click on a link. Here’s how you turn it off.
- From the “Start†pop-up menu on your desktop, select your computer’s “Control Panel.â€
- From this list, pick “Sounds and Audio Devices†(for Windows XP) or “Sounds and Multimedia Properties†(for Windows 2000).
- From the tabs across the top, pick “Sounds.â€
- Scroll down and you’ll find a category called “Windows Explorer.†The last item under this heading is “Start Navigation.†Click this to highlight it.
- In the box just below this, called “Sounds,†open the pop-up menu and scroll to the top to choose (None).
- Click the “OK†button to close the dialog window – and you’re done!
…but then again – why are you using Internet Explorer? You should be on Firefox!
March 6th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
yeah, its kinda like the Princess and the Pea huh?
you’re the princess and clicking sound is the pea..?
March 6th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Yeah the clicking is a minor annoyance – but you don’t have to live with it you know what I mean?
March 31st, 2007 at 3:06 am
Thank you so much for this info – that clicking sound was driving me crazy!! I adjusted something yesterday in my sounds and somehow turned that thing on – how annoying. Thanks again!
March 31st, 2007 at 6:06 am
No problems rf – it was my pleasure to help :)
April 29th, 2007 at 3:56 am
Bless you and all your offspring forever! The sounds kept growing and growing in my mind and now THEY ARE GONE! What a relief.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:09 am
Thanks, but why would anyone think that a parameter for Windows Explorer would actually effect what happens in Internet Explorer?
August 10th, 2007 at 5:30 am
@Paul – You can thank the creators of Windows for that
or it may be part of their EU antitrust defense plan… you know, the one where they claimed IE and Windows are one and cannot be separated *conspiracy theory disclaimer :) *
November 30th, 2007 at 4:07 am
So easy, so obvious… Still I din’t think of looking there and that stupid noise drives me creazy! Thanx for helping me keeping my sanity :-)
December 1st, 2007 at 6:47 am
Now where have I seen this before?! *lol* Long live Firefox!
December 8th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
just stop using internet explorer
http://stopie.wordpress.com
March 18th, 2008 at 8:50 am
THANK YOU!!!
This saved me some grief, I hate that sound.
March 31st, 2008 at 4:23 am
I am so glad someone takes the time to post info like this. I just can not have annoying clicking sounds when I am Djing Live.
Thanks,
Dj Ric-Derr “C”
April 11th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
many thanks.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Thanks! Man, that was soooo annoying
April 20th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
thanks!!!
August 31st, 2008 at 12:00 am
Thanks a ton!!!!
Click sound annoying!!!
Aggrevation $100
Therapy Session $500
Removal of annoying sound Priceless!!!!!
Thanks for the help
October 12th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Many thanks, very helpful to block the ticking noise from IE as I was listening to music !
October 19th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
The annoying sound doesnt seem to disappear. I have followed your instructions
November 17th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Thanks!
November 30th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Thank you!!!
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:44 am
re: ‘How to stop IE’s annoying clicking sound’. WOW! Thank you sooo much for that solution! That sound was awful. It is gone – forever!!
January 4th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Very useful information. Thanks.
The sound played by navigating the web through IE is very annoying. I do not have choice to use it because my favorite online music station cannot play on FireFox.
Thanks again.
April 11th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Yes, thanks for the instructions, those are some really, really, really STUPID SOUNDS. And to answer your question about why I’m still using IE, Netflix requires it to watch their instant movies. How lame is that? Normally I use Firefox for everything else.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:05 am
@Clay Ouch – come on Netflix – play nice with other browsers :)
June 15th, 2009 at 3:29 am
For those interested in disabling the click sound in Windows 7, check out this post: http://bit.ly/KKYiX
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Thank you so much! My life just got a little better!
June 25th, 2009 at 4:04 am
Worked great, thanks.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:10 am
ok, just for keep it updated, I had the same problem with the “clicking” sound, even with the iexplorer closed. So I turned off the sound for that action, but …there might be a reason for that. So, I tried hijack this, but it discovered nothing. Finally I tried the latest Malicious removal tool from MS (July 09) and it found a trojan downloader: win32/renos.FJ and then removed it. So, since that, the annoying clicking sound its gone.
August 18th, 2009 at 4:51 am
Thanks, i hate all the sounds that windows makes. Man, i just turned them all of. Peace
alex
August 19th, 2009 at 9:16 am
thank you! i love fire fox but if i ever have to use ie i cannot stand that clicking sound. sometimes you wonder how hard microsoft works on this crap they put out. i am a windows guy but if we ever had a pc that used open source that worked as good as firefox, i would never use microsoft again.
August 21st, 2009 at 8:42 am
Thanks! Why does IE do that anyway? It just goes to show how out of touch the company is.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:25 am
Thank you! You have no idea (or perhaps you do!) just how big and nasty a headache you have delivered me from. One can only take so much motrin, after all, without blowing a kidney.
Gratitude, dude. Gratitude.
September 10th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
I actually enjoy the clicking sound. It feels empty and awkward without hearing. like I’m just barely hovering over the internet instead of actually being inmmersed in it. Maybe it’s because I never listen to music or anything while I browse.
October 18th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
OKAY, I didnt want to get rid of the sound at all because it didnt bother me when I clicked on things, “BUT” I must either have a TROJAN HORSE that is making it click randomly “or” the Internet Explorer is downloading COOKIES and making that clicking noise.. What is annoying tho is that I hear it click randomly about 5 times every 20 seconds without touching the mouse…SO, whatever problem is going on, whatever problem is making it do the clicking noise, will still be there, I just wont be able to hear it….SO, either do a virus search or stop a cookies(this works, but cannot visit many sites without alowing cookies)
October 21st, 2009 at 11:54 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is one of the few times where the information was accurate and helpful. No more freakin’ clicking noises!!
November 5th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Thank you so much for your help!