What program is making this sound and how can I make it stop

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Published on 2010-02-24T16:04:51Z Indexed on 2011/02/25 23:27 UTC
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Some program is intermittently making this weird "chook ... chick" sound, no more than every 5 minutes, but sometimes hours or days between making it. There seems to be no pattern as to when it happens, but the sound is definitely coming from the speakers, and is always the same, so I'm pretty confident some piece of software I'm running is playing the sound. Today, I managed to record it, and I've posted it here:

http://tristanhavelick.com/chook-chick.mp3

Short of closing my programs one by one, and seeing if the sound continues, are there any tricks for tracking down a problem like this? Is there any software that can trace what sounds come from what programs (something like tcpview with waveforms)?

I am running windows xp.

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