Windows 10: Frequent chime on Windows 10

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I can't find anything else on the web or Reddit.



I am getting some sort of chime on my Windows Acer Nitro 5 Laptop. It almost sounds like an XBox chime and I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is. It happens every 10 minutes or so. I'm not technology illiterate and as far as I can tell I'm not hosting any malware or anything. When I have all programs closed my CPU and graphics card are not pulling much power. Additionally, I have gone through almost everything running in task manager and I found nothing suspicious (Apart from there being a ton of service host background programs. Is this normal?). There are no notifications when it happens, I'm stumped. I don't have an anti-virus but because of that I only visit websites like steam and youtube. I avoid anything that I am not familiar with additionally while just chilling task manager says that CPU and GPU usage is minimal (Under 5% for CPU and 0% for GPU). I got onto youtube and it doesn't seem to be a sound from windows itself but I was on youtube the first time I heard it and I hadn't visited any other site that day except for the steam website.

Though I'm not amazing at stuff like this has actually stumped me.

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Clock chimes

Thanks, but I don't want to set the clock so it chimes on the hour. I want to set it so it DOESN'T chime on the hour.

 

Chime alert

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



We understand how annoying it could be, when the chime sound occurs in middle of the flight simulation. In order to get clarity and to assist you accordingly, please reply with the answers to the questions below.

• What is the Windows 10 version and Build installed? (Type
  winver in Windows search/Run command)
  
• Are you aware of any changes on the PC, prior to this issue?

In this scenario, we would like to isolate the issue and want to know, whether it's an in game issue or a windows issue. Please perform the steps to enable Focus assist as mentioned in this article:

Turn Focus assist on or off in Windows 10



If the issue still persist, then try creating a new user account as this issue may be due to a profile corruption. Hence, in order to eliminate possibilities, we would suggest you to create a new user account
and check. Follow the steps from the article
Create a local user or administrator account in Windows 10 to create a new user account.



We await your response.



Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator