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[davenh.livejournal.com]

Hi, first time poster, long time listener (or something like that). I work tech support at a university. Academia, eek. Anyway, I got a call today that I had to share.

One of our users called to ask how to turn off the clicking sound from the mouse. The physical click of a mouse button. See, she says her mouse at home is silent, and she doesn't like that click noise, so she thought there must be some way to turn that off. To make sure I was actually understanding her question, I actually held my mouse up by the phone and clicked the mouse button a couple of times to make sure that was the noise she was talking about. Yep, that was it. Imagine her disappointed/skeptical tone when I told her that's just how mice work.

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[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

I have an ancient HP mouse that doesn't click very loud.

then again, it doesn't click very WELL either..

[klyf23.livejournal.com]

You didn't *giggle* refer her to manufacturer?

Mwuah hah hah hah haaaa!

[kerberos.livejournal.com]

There is a second thing you may have overlooked.
In windows you can have it play the clicksound whenever you click in the explorer and so on.

Usually the first thing I turn off when I install XP.

8-)

[davenh.livejournal.com]

Actually, I did think about that. That's why I held the mouse up by the phone and clicked the mouse button (not on anything that would make a Windows-type click sound), to make sure that's what she meant. She said that's what it was, the physical sound of clicking on the mouse button.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

WTF???? CLICK SOUND????

Oh, I KNEW XP was retarded, but I had NO idea...