Some program is intermittently making this weird "chook … chick" sound, no more than every 5 minutes, but sometimes hours or days between making it. There seems to be no pattern as to when it happens, but the sound is definitely coming from the speakers, and is always the same, so I'm pretty confident some piece of software I'm running is playing the sound. Today, I managed to record it, and I've posted it here:
http://tristanhavelick.com/chook-chick.mp3
Short of closing my programs one by one, and seeing if the sound continues, are there any tricks for tracking down a problem like this? Is there any software that can trace what sounds come from what programs (something like tcpview with waveforms)?
I am running windows xp.
Best Answer
Sounds to me like the Windows Search dog.
Do you have Windows Search (press Windows-Key and F) open? It makes the same noise - I think it's the dog panting.
You could verify this by opening Windows Search and (right-)clicking on the dog. Every time I do this I get a similar noise.
As for stopping it, assuming that it is the search-dog, you could try turning off the animated character using the right-click menu on the dog.