Windows Sound triggered by the Alt modifier key

Thanks Yanna. Hmm, I respect your opinion but I'm sure there has to be a way to address this. I'm no programmer but I've worked as a QA Analyst for a good number of years, testing video editing and vfx softwares for another major software company and I can tell you we were working and fixing OS-based issues on a regular basis, stuff way deeper than a keyboard key press! And this occured across Mac and Linux OSes. 

But regardless, the point is this should be either fixed or officially called out as a known issue that can/cannot be fixed by Adobe... Cheers.

Thanks Neil, I appreciate the feedback. Has Adobe "officialized" this as being a) a Windows problem and b) that they cannot tinker any form of solution on their end? I mean, it's a massive blow to Windows users... Officializing this once and for all is the least they should be doing in respect to the user base IMHO...

sorry it's driving you nuts but honestly the programming for something like that would be really hard to do ( to overide os sounds when you don't want to disable them on the os level ). it's kinda like a IF THEN ELSE programming statement with a new variable that targets the specific key(s) ( alt in your case), direct programming to a sub routine ( gosub ) just to try and overide the os sound... and then programming would have to jump back to continue ( after gosub part ). That would slow up the program and be complicated. The best thing I think for you to do is look at the little speaker icon in task bar and turn the sound OFF ( slide it to left when you see the little window for speaker volume ) and just turn off sound for your computer entirely for your editing session where you hate the os sounds.  since you want to keep the fun os sounds in general and can't turn off the sounds cause you need them for other programs the speaker is your best bet...THEN after you get to the point where you want to play your edited video WITH sound, just turn on the speakers again ....using little speaker icon on task bar.

otherwise i think you are out of luck...sorry....

No, there isn't a fix I know of on "Adobe's" side.

Why?

Because ... Windows.

I've looked all over the web for years for any app/utility/hack of the registry even! ... that will allow users to turn off Window's control of the Alt key.

There isn't one.

And if anyone can find one, PLEASE POST IT HERE!

And this is very, very maddening to me as someone who works keyboard shorts as hard as I do. I've found I cannot use most Alt-x shorts, that only say Shift-Alt-X works. Although occasionally ... just Alt-x does work.

Very frustrating.

Neil