How To Change Your Windows System Sounds:
To change Windows System Sounds (Windows Vista):
Firstly, before you start it is a good idea to select the sounds you want to use and copy them into a separate file and label it as something like "my custom system sounds do not move". This is because if you then move the files after setting them up as your system sounds, the system won't be able to see them and will just stop playing a sound at all, or come up with an error message.
1. Click on the WINDOWS START logo
2. Click on CONTROL PANEL
3. Click on HARDWARE AND SOUND
4. Click on CHANGE SYSTEM SOUNDS
5. This opens a new window. The SOUNDS tab should already be open but if not open it.
In the centre you will see the program and the sounds associated with it. It should automatically default to Windows and all the Windows functions that use sounds. The ones with speaker icons next to them are ones that currently have sounds associated.
6. Click on the appropriate function (i.e. Asterisk) and you will see the default sound associated at the bottom. You can play this by clicking TEST.
7. To chose another sound, click on BROWSE. This will open up your file folders. Simply select the sound from the location in which you have filed it.
This is using Windows Vista. If memory serves me right, the only difference on earlier Windows versions is from the Control panel you select SOUND directly from the list. I can't check because my XP based desktop is a bit poorly right now.
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To change Windows System Sounds (Windows Vista):
Firstly, before you start it is a good idea to select the sounds you want to use and copy them into a separate file and label it as something like "my custom system sounds do not move". This is because if you then move the files after setting them up as your system sounds, the system won't be able to see them and will just stop playing a sound at all, or come up with an error message.
1. Click on the WINDOWS START logo
2. Click on CONTROL PANEL
3. Click on HARDWARE AND SOUND
4. Click on CHANGE SYSTEM SOUNDS
5. This opens a new window. The SOUNDS tab should already be open but if not open it.
In the centre you will see the program and the sounds associated with it. It should automatically default to Windows and all the Windows functions that use sounds. The ones with speaker icons next to them are ones that currently have sounds associated.
6. Click on the appropriate function (i.e. Asterisk) and you will see the default sound associated at the bottom. You can play this by clicking TEST.
7. To chose another sound, click on BROWSE. This will open up your file folders. Simply select the sound from the location in which you have filed it.
This is using Windows Vista. If memory serves me right, the only difference on earlier Windows versions is from the Control panel you select SOUND directly from the list. I can't check because my XP based desktop is a bit poorly right now.
*dances around happily* It wasn't exactly where you said for my computer but I found it...I logged out of windows and I now have a 'Space monkey' as the sound!!! 
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