balloon "pop" sound all the time

My machine keeps making that irritating balloon-tip "pop" noise every 40
seconds or so. Balloon-tips are disabled. I have nothing running in the
background that shouldn't be. This is driving me insane.

Any ideas as to how to stop it (short of disabling all system sounds, that's
not acceptable)?

Thanks

Colin


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