Month: February 2026

Windows 11 Annoying Beep

Recently, Windows 11 has started to Beep at various times. Nobody online seems to really have a handle on what is going on, or how to fix it. But I had a thought that nobody I saw discuss this topic has mentioned. The various sources indicate that it seems to be coming from USB Device Connects / Disconnects and talks about looking at the event managers to see this. I looked and I could not see any events.

There is a control panel to set what sounds play on certain events.

So I had the bright idea of changing the sounds for Connect and Disconnect to see which one was occurring. The sounds I heard did not sound exactly like these, but here’s what I did.

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Gemini First Use – But Not Last

I’ve watched the Gemini button at the end of the Google search box for a few weeks ? Months?, but I’ve never tried it until today. Today I had a problem installing Java on Linux and I let Gemini help.

Background

A while ago I wrote a Java program to display artwork in the form of LibreOffice Impress files. The Showrunner program takes a list of Impress files and displays them one after the other and starts the first one after the last one. It is written in Java so that it’s easy to use on Windows or Linux.

I just got a new Mini system [5″ x 5″ x 3″] system. Basically a folded up laptop with 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD and it came with Windows 11 Pro – Yuck. So my first task was to install Linux Mint 22.3.

Installing Linux Mint 22.3 went without a hitch. But to use ShowRunner I needed to install Java. I tried to just install it. And that looked like it worked, but didn’t when I tried to run the program.

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