How to Change Gmail’s New Mail Sound!
Change new mail sound for Gmail Notifier! – If you are using Gmail Notifier and you’re sick of the “new mail” sound, here is how you do it! Change it to something more fun! I changed mine a while a go to a lady that says “You have new mail!”, but she kind of annoys me now! Time to change! Also, if you feel that the “new mail” sound get you stressed, you should change it!
How to Find a New Mail Sound
You should be looking for .wav files. There are tons to choose from out there, anything from South Park “You’ve got mail you bastards!” and plain “ding”-sounds to Austin Powers “You got mail baby!“. For example, check out ILoveWavs and TheSoundArchive.
When you have found a sound that you like, download it and then place the sound file in C:/WINDOWS/Media where Windows other .wav files are stored. If you save it some place else, you might delete it by accident later on and then you will get an error!
How to Change New Mail Sound for Gmail Notifier
- This will also work for other mail programs that uses Windows New Mail Notification, like Outlook!
- Click Start and select Control Panel.
- Click on Sounds and Audio Devices and choose the tab called Sounds.
- Mark New Mail Notification in the list and then choose your sound in the list next to the Browse button.
- If you saved your .wav file some where else, you have to click Browse and find it.
- To disable the mail notification sound, choose (none) in the list instead. - Click OK and you’re done!
Ohhh thanks for this. I have Gmail and I kinda miss the funny got mail notifications from the AOL days.
You’re welcome! :D
I really did not know about this Gmail Notifier thingie before I read this post. Now I will surely check it out. Thanks
I have followed the instructions above but still can not change the sound. When I go back into sounds to check it, I click on mail notification and it is the new sound there, but when I recieve mail it is the default sound…
Then you have done something wrong. Perhaps you have the new sound file in the wrong format? Perhaps you should try to reboot?