How to Fix Irritating Wi-Fi Network Connect Sound

You may hear an annoying clicking sound when your Wi-Fi network reconnects or disconnects occasionally or frequently on your PC. Least to say that the alert sound can irritate you very much and drive you up the wall and thence you may want to fix it as soon as possible and if you can. Well, you surely can mute this irritating sound with these little workarounds.

Step 1: Mute Sound in Router Folder

Since you have a Wi-Fi network, you inevitably have a Wi-Fi router whose settings you need to tweak to mute this irritating sound. The sound for your Wi-Fi router’s connection lies with a file in its folder in your computer. Let’s take example for a Netgear router whose sound file you must find in the “Computer> C:\> Program Files> Netgear> WNDA3200v2> Driver> ConnectToInternet.WAV”. Delete the “ConnectToInternet.WAV” file by right clicking it and selecting “Delete”. If prompted, confirm the delete action. If you see many .WAV files in the “Driver” folder, then delete each file one by one, check whose deletion stops the sound and you are done.

P.S. Similarly find files in the folder of your respective router viz. Asus, Belkin, Buffalo, Linksys etc. and get rid of them to get rid of the pesky sound every time you connect to your Wi-Fi network or the Internet.

Step 2: Disable Default Windows Sound

If any other sound comes up after disabling the sound on your router, then check, it must be the default Windows sound (if you have a Mac, then mute its default sound), which is chiming during the connection. If it is intolerable to you, then mute it and unmute it only if you really need it. To do so, browse to “Control Panel” and find the “Sounds and Audio Devices” item. Double click it and in the “Properties” window, highlight the “Sounds” tab and then select “No Sound” from under the “Sound Scheme” drop down menu.

Step 3: Use a Tool to Mute Sound

If your problem is not fixed, then use a tool like Nero Wave Editor to edit the default sound file(s) and record a blank one to do the needful. You can use any tool you want but use it on your own risk as we do not endorse the use of any third-party tool.

If the clicking sound constantly chimes and irritates you when the Wi-Fi network is connected or reconnected to or during other processes, give us a call at our toll-free number +1-877-907-4935 and get an expert to help you mute it or fix any other problems which you may face.