I've discovered another idiotic effect of a form of "late binding" (the dumbest development idea of all time).
In short, if a user wants to mute Windows Sounds to listen to some music (for example, Windows Media Player), then every other program on the system that has sound feedback enabled...
audiofeedbackaudio issues
audio management
audio settings
media player
mixer
mute
operating system
program control
registry
software development
system sounds
third-party tools
user experience
volume control
windows 7
windows audio
windows vista
