Originally Posted by
leroix
On this subject, I think one of the best new features in Vista is the ability to turn off sound for various applications individually-- I've turned off sound for Internet Explorer because I can't figure out how to silence slugger and am able to watch and hear TV in media center no problem.
If you're using Vista, right click on the volume and select the mixer-- it shows you every application with an individual volume control.
There's another trick for this too. I forget off the top of my head, but you make some blank file in the IE directory. IE finds the bogus file instead of the correct one in system32, and can't play sound.