Warning: Windows 10 likes to put little banners into the lower-right corner of your
screen whenever it thinks it has some delightful news to share with you, like the availability of a new version of Office 365, or the discovery that an update to some product you don't remember buying just came out. When it does this, it is initially set to
play a happy sounding little
chord, which will come out of the same
headphones jack your cues are coming from. That can really break the mood of a show. To turn that sound off, click the Window (what used to be the Start)
button, then All Apps / Windows
System / Control Panel / Sound / Sounds / Notification, and set it to "(None)." Yes, that's an absurd amount of effort to have to go to just to turn off an annoying feature that only Microsoft wants you to have, but you only have to do it once. Beware of anything else that might make a noise out your headphone
jack, however. If you're nervous, consider creating a new Sound Scheme that sets
everything to "(None)," and use that whenever you're in your show space. (Creating a new Sound Scheme is left as an exercise for the reader
.)