Turn off alert sound when opening new folder

[push2flush]

Is there a way to turn off the alert sounds (the windows critical stop sound) when opening/clicking into a new folder - this seems absolutely useless and is very annoying? The only solution that works is to disable warnings and beeps in the options - but this makes no sense as I would still want alerts when something is actually wrong!

edit: I just noticed it's more annoying than I thought and not sure how I didn't notice this before, but it appears the same alert sound plays when clicking into every open folder tab after starting the explorer2 after opening the advanced option.

[Kilmatead]

This is in no way normal behaviour, and is indicative of something (a misbehaving shell-extension?) specific to your system. What is the error/warning message reported in x2's status-bar (View -> Toolbars -> Status bar) when the sound occurs? Just browsing folders should have no such side-effects.

What is your x2 version, OS version, and are you running as Admin (elevated), are you using networked folders or local, previews on or off, etc...?

[push2flush]

Xplorer2 version: 3.4.0.4 ULT x64 7/12/2017
Windows 10 Creators Edition
Not running as admin
the folders being browsed that causes the alert are networked
Status bar simply shows "ready" on the left and file/drive space information on the right - there is never an error message when this occurs[/u]

[nikos]

try using TOOLS > OPTIONS menu then from General property page tick off "beep on warnings and errors" checkbox and see if it helps

[push2flush]

nikos:

per my post, i've tried that and it works. However, that is not a solution as it disables any beeps and warnings for real errors, which I don't want to do.

[nikos]

if xplorer2 beeps, it must not like something. Is there any error message on the statusbar?
it certainly doesn't do it for me

[push2flush]

See my previous post - no error messages in status bar, just shows ready).

[nikos]

do you have the folder tree pane on? Try turning off display elements one by one and see if some of them makes the beep go away?

[push2flush]

Finally started to narrow this down. Took your advise and turned of the folder tree and noticed that not only where there no beeps/warnings, but I saw that the warning sound was specifically when opening a previously un-browsed folder with files - so no warning if opening a folder with sub-folders. Further more, I checked various options settings regarding folder tree and found that the issue appears to be the folder sync. When "Keep synchronized with folder in active view pane" is check, I get the warning sound, but when unchecked, no warning sound. I also noticed that for a very brief moment (split second), the status bar flashes from Ready to "reading folder contents" back to "Ready". So here's the summary:

[nikos]

ok the problem is that you combined automatic tree sync with "expand subfolders" advanced setting which causes beeps if there are no subfolders. I will fix it

[push2flush]

Great. Thanks.