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How to turn off Windows sounds?

svebee — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:52:30 +0000

If you are one of those who easily get nervous with all kind of error sounds, turning off/on the sounds of Windows and similar, the “problem“ can easily be resolved by turning them all off. All sounds of Windows will be turned off (that means error sounds, warning sounds, information sounds, turn on/off sounds and similar). Of course, the sound system in Windows that you normally use is still available (playing music/movies and similar).

All you need to do is go at Start – Control Panel – Sounds and Audio Devices. Choose Sounds tab.

Under Sound sceheme: choose No sounds. You’ll get a warning about saving last changes/preferenecs, simply click No.

Apply i Close.

How to remove language icon/bar?

svebee — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:48:09 +0000

If you use only one language on your computer (probably that will be [EN]) simply you can remove icon tray (right down corner) which represents language choice (probably between english and some other one). Language refers to “keyboard language“ – the symbols/letters you are writing in the computer with your keyboard, is the language that I’m talking about here – not the langauge of the Windows interface.

Simply you can right click on icon and select Settings… (here is HR as Croatian keyboard layout)

Choose any language you don’t use (if you have one) and click on Remove. Then just Apply and close the Window.

Here I have english and croatian keyboard layout, and because I use only the Croatian one, the English one can easily be erased/removed.

How to remove automatic update (Adobe)?

svebee — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:42:07 +0000

If you are a user of the Adobe package or just one program (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Flash and similar) from their range, you can very frequently see that some Update windows pop-up. If you turn it off (close it), after few days it comes on all over again. What’s the best part, it downloads updates by itself, so suddenly your Internet connection is very slow. I have found a solution for how to remove it and advise this.

Run any Adobe program (I will use Adobe Acrobat 8) and click on Help – Check for Updates…

Program will check for some updates…

And it will offer you to download them and install them, of course. On the left side, click on Preferences.

At the top, uncheck Automatically check for Adobe updates and click on OK.

Program will check for updates once again.

After that just click on Close.