How to Change Gmail’s New Mail Sound!

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

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!

Gmail Themes

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

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I really adore some of the Gmail Themes available. Especially Candy, Shiny and Ninja. Now I no longer have to rely on the Better Gmail 2 addon to do the work!

Which one do you use?

How to change theme in Gmail: When logged in, click on Settings in upper right corner, and then choose Themes in the menu that appear under the heading Settings.