Many time when you open any website or your email account, you listen some background music or other sound on site, and you have no any way that how to stop this music or mute this sound.
But in windows vista you can easily mute website unnecessary sound.
Right click on volume icon in notification area and then select open volume Mixer.
Where you found your browser icon (Firefox, internet explorer, opera or Safari) and then click mute button or you can increase / decrease website volume.
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