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24 September 2007

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When I'm on my laptop I can hear the familiar sound effect of a door shutting and lots of clicking while I'm on a web page. What is happening?

post by: LoriFLA at: 11:13 | 9 comments

Do you have AOL Instant messenger or another instant message program open? The "door shutting" sound is pretty typical for "A friend is logging off".

posted by muddgirl 24 September | 11:21

No, I don't have AOL instant messenger. The only instant message service that I have, and that I know of, is the ability to chat with people on Gmail. Maybe that's it.

I don't feel alone. I feel like people are clicking and shutting doors and I can't see them! ;)

posted by LoriFLA 24 September | 11:24

It's not a sound effect on an advert somewhere on the page?

posted by cillit bang 24 September | 11:57

It may be, cillit bang. I'm going to do a little experiment with gmail. I think it may be the culprit.

posted by LoriFLA 24 September | 12:48

Sorry, that was me. It wasn't coming from your computer, I was stuck in the space above your ceiling. I'm fine now.

posted by dg 24 September | 17:13

When you have a search window open on (at least some versions of) XP, and the search is finished, there's a little doggy avatar that makes strange little "scratching" noises (that's what I think they're meant to be anyway). Could it be that?

posted by taz 24 September | 17:20

(by "search window" here, I mean the internal Windows search function.)

posted by taz 24 September | 17:21

No scratching noises, just the shutting door sound and loud mouse click noises.

posted by LoriFLA 24 September | 19:36

THEY'RE IN THE BASEMENT! LEAVE THE HOUSE NOW!

posted by Doohickie 24 September | 20:22

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