Disable sounds in Winframe/Metaframe/TSE for better performance.

Did you know that whether you can hear them or not sound files are played BY DEFAULT within Metaframe. Every session that logs in plays the windows chimes, every session that logs out plays the windows exit sound. Further if you install Internet Explorer it will create a sound in the sound applet that makes a clicking sound every time that a page or object is accessed within IE. Can you imagine 20 users in IE browsing and sound files being fired off for every page they access? Not to forget to mention that stupid tapping paperclip in the Office Apps(whom should also be disable. The strain on the server is unfathomable! You can disable sounds at the client end by going into Citrix Client Configuration and clicking on advanced and disable the client sound mapping but this only works for ICA not RDP and the sound is still played on the server even though the client can't hear it.

To get rid of this problem go to the control panel and click on the sound applet and go through each of the sound types under the events window and click on it and under the name drop down set the sound to be NONE. A Thin.Net Citrix list user also came up with an even quicker way though. Go to the schemes drop down and choose "NO SOUNDS" and click on OK. The icons will disappear and no sounds will be played.

To disable sound in Winframe open the control panel, click on sounds and uncheck the box that says enable system sounds.

Here is another helpful KB article on the subject from Microsoft

How to Remove Internet Explorer Sound Pack

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0, 4.01 for Windows NT 4.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0, 4.01 for Windows 95
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 for Windows 95
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 for Windows 98
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 for Windows NT 4.0

IMPORTANT: This article contains information about editing the registry. Before you edit the registry, make sure you understand how to restore it if a problem occurs. For information about how to do this, view the "Restoring the Registry" Help topic in Regedit.exe or the "Restoring a Registry Key" Help topic in Regedt32.exe.

Summary

This article describes how to remove Internet Explorer Sound Pack from your computer.

More Information

WARNING: Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

For information about how to edit the registry, view the "Changing Keys And Values" Help topic in Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) or the "Add and Delete Information in the Registry" and "Edit Registry Data" Help topics in Regedt32.exe. Note that you should back up the registry before you edit it. If you are running Windows NT, you should also update your Emergency Repair Disk (ERD).

Internet Explorer Sound Pack is an optional component that can be used to associate Windows sound (.wav) files with navigation events in Internet Explorer. To remove Internet Explorer Sound Pack from your computer, follow these steps:

Click Start, point to Find, and then click Files Or Folders.
In the Named box, type done.wav hoversel.wav start.wav ie4sound.inf, and then click Find Now.

NOTE: The Ie4sound.inf file is not included in Internet Explorer for Windows NT 4.0.
In the list of found files, right-click each file, and then click Delete.

Remove the (Default) string value from the following registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\ActivatingDocument\.current

HKEY_CURRNET_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating\.current

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\CCSelect\.Current

For information about how to disable Internet Explorer Sound Pack without removing it from your computer, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q182980
TITLE: How to Disable the Internet Explorer 4.0 Sound Pack

For information about how to install Internet Explorer Sound Pack, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q171229
TITLE: How to Add and Remove Internet Explorer Components

Additional query words: 4.00 4.01 uninstall 5.00

Keywords          : kbsetup kbsound msiew95 msient msiew98 
Version           : 4.0 4.01,5.0,98
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto

Your performance will be greatly increased.