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Can I make my computer alert me to a new email?

How do you make you computer to make a sound when you get a new email?

  • When I went to my friends house we were in her room and her computer was on, then the computer suddenley said "you've got mail"!

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    You need to find whatever sound file you want to hear for new mail (windows has lots of blips and beeps, but I'd look online to find a more fun sound).. then once you have your file and know were to find it, go to control panel, and click the icon marked sounds and audio devices - from that click the tab which says sounds, and you should see a list in there.... find 'mail notification' in that list and click the browse button to locate your sound file - then click apply and ok and you're done!

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Depends what mail you are using - Outlook Express/Mozilla Thunderbird just go into options under TOOLS heading and find the box that says play sound when mail arrives - or words to that effect - put a dot in the button and you will get a notification tone

jamand

Are you on drugs? She said that herself when you werent looking. Computers making sounds !! LOL what next colour TV!!! Tally Your crazy HO!!!!!!!

Mr Darcy II

Sounds like she may have been using incredimail

richard_beckham2001

If you have Yahoo Mail: Open Yahoo messenger. Click on the word `messenger` click on `privacy options` click on `alert and sounds` click on `I receive a message in yahoo mail` make sure the three boxes on the left....... `playing a sound`, `showing an icon in the system tray`, `showing a message at the right bottom corner of my screen` are all ticked. On the left of the browse button you will see a small arrow box. Click it to see if you have a sound. If not then click the browse button and add your own from your PC - if it does have a sound then you can always change to one that you like :-) Here are a few you can download http://simplythebest.net/sounds/WAV/events_WAV/email_wavs_2.html

Northern Lad

Are you on drugs? She said that herself when you werent looking. Computers making sounds !! LOL what next colour TV!!! Tally Your crazy HO!!!!!!!

Georgie

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