party notifications

Party notifications on Windows PCs are the alerts tied to social and party features inside game launchers, and one recurring example is the short chime some users hear from the Epic Games Launcher while it runs in the background. Epic acknowledged in September 2026 that these party and social sounds fire more often than intended and said a launcher update would reduce which background events trigger them, though no ship date or version was given. Until then, users have weighed unofficial file-deletion workarounds, muting at the Windows level, and notification settings that may not cover these sounds.