Sound pane pops up spontaneously Mountain lion

Sound pane / system preferences dialog box pops up randomly every few minutes.  Started suddenly 2 days ago.

Try a restart. If that doesn't work, open Terminal and paste this command
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.soundpref.plist
hit 'return' on your keyboard, restart the mac again then test.

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