Tuesday, April 20, 2010

How to turn on text or visual cues in place of sound


The purpose of this blogpost is to show you how to turn on text and/or visual cues in place of sound on your computer. But this post is specific only to Microsoft Windows Vista users. In order to get to the menu to make these changes possible, follow the steps below.

Open the "Start" menu > click on "Control Panel" > click on "Ease of Access" > click on "Replace sounds with visual cues" and the menu that allows you to turn these options on should be right in front of you

The option on the menu that says "Turn on visual notifications for sounds" allows you to select 1 of 3 options that acts as a visual warning. To test this out, I chose the "Flash Active Window" option and when I would click on the forward or backward arrows on the "Easy Access" menu, the window you were leaving would flash a different color.

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