That noise

Hey all every time i open my moms laptop, i hear a noise its very animated and it kinda sounds like what u would think of as a U.F.O goes over head. Now i am not sure what it is i think it may be ichat seeing as i just started using that last night. but i just wanted to make sure

Could it be the "Sent" sound from Mail? That sort of sounds like something flying overhead.

well i dont use mail so i dont think that it would be that

Hmm. Not sure then. It shouldn't be making noise when you open it.

alright well thank you for your help and if anyone has any input please fill me in

What kind of laptop is it? It may be initialising the optical drive when it comes out of sleep with a sort of "woo-ee-rrrrrrrrr" noise. It's perfectly normal.

Go into the System folder (immediately visible when you open the hard drive), then the Library folder, then the Sounds folder. It might be "Hero," if Apple still installs it.

it seems to be the hero sound, why would it being doing this?

You can control the sounds in Apple's Mail program by making sure Mail is running, going into the Preferences under Mail in the menu bar, and clicking on General. It's the third control down the list.

well it is coming from ichat, i closed the program then re opened and it made the sound so thats what its coming from. so no worries now