Can anyone with a computer count the number of times Windows Update screws up something that was working perfectly fine the day before? It’s such a fundamental computing experience that last October, when my computer’s notification beep suddenly sounded like it was being filtered through a grubby fish tank, I made the most natural assumption in the world: Windows had disappeared and screwed up again.
It turns out that for the first time (once!!) I placed the blame in the wrong place.
It wasn’t the Windows audio output that was broken – it was Just Discord notifications that have been sneakily spooked for the Halloween season. I wasn’t the only person on the PC Gamer team who was completely thrown by the noise and thought the sound on their PC had gone bad. More than a few people had a blast with the fresh auto-enabled notification sound I’m looking for how to turn it off.
If you want to turn off spooky sounds, go to Settings > Notifications and scroll down until you find the “Event Sound Pack” drop-down menu, which you can change from Halloween back to the Discord default setting.
However, if you want every message you receive on Discord to make your computer sound like the rattling of a drowning Sonic the Hedgehog, no action is required. Happy Halloween!
