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Its one of the most annoying sounds I've ever heard on a computer, like a trilling sound from some toneless instrument from the depths of tonal hell. There are a lot of toneless non-musical alert sounds on a windows 10 computer but this one in particular is more annoying because it is extended and like fingernails sliding across the blackboard.

I knew it was going to be a job to find it because the "volume mixer" tool only refers to system sounds. I knew this wasn't a system (inbuilt) sound. It interrupts whatever I'm concentrating on and whacks me over the head with a sturgeon fish. I had to get my sherlock holmes hat on and find it.

First of all I loaded up Mark Russinovich's PROCESS MONITOR from sysinternals.com

I chose the filter tab. From the filter choose these conditions:
path contains .wav

click add. Then click okay and leave it open.

Come back in the morning and check the log on the screen.

In my case it was HD Sentinel, the hard disk analyzer.

JUST HOW PRIVATE ARE YOU ONLINE? SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!!

You might not know this but just a little while ago google was reading your gmail emails for targeted advertising purposes. Imagine the personal content of emails being read by complete strangers. They claim to have stopped doing that now - the reading your emails bit. But when you opened your email, where you were when you opened it, what time you opened it, they can even know where your mouse pointed to in the email - people think with their mouse. It tells marketers or whoever else about your behaviour. They might have stopped reading your emails but there are third party apps doing the same thing.


Here's something you probably didn't know. Lets say you have a non-personal email address you use for shopping and communicating with family members. e.g. [email protected]. Then you buy something online, then you write to that business to complain about something or praise their service. If they are a pretty big online store their email program will scour the internet to find a photo attached to that email address. That's why sometimes you will see your photo suddenly appear in a return email from that store. The email software retrieves your photo from wherever you have used it associated with that email address you thought was private.

They may have got it from facebook or instagram, or worse, that private little dating site that turned out to be dodgy and now you cannot access to delete your picture.

So you can see that using an encrypted third party email is not going to keep your identity private. Once someone has the image of you they can search via image to find out a lot about you, where ever you used that image.

In the second image you can see how a reply email from an online store suddenly had a photo of the customer. They did not need your permission to do this because the photo is publicly accessible.
You might need to click on the image to see the second image.