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5 Ways To Stop Windows Vista/XP/2003 From Beeping

This came up twice in the past week at work so I decided to post it. Here's a few ways to disable the annoying beep in Windows. Works especially well to hush Terminal Services Beeping. I ran this on the clients but it may work for the server as well.

1.	local machine: sc stop beep && sc config beep start= disabled
2.	remote machine: sc \remoteMachine stop beep && sc \remoteMachine config beep start= disabled
3.	requires reboot: Device Manager -> View -> Show Hidden Devices -> Non Plug and Play -> Beep -> Disable
4.	requires reboot: net stop beep
5.	use TweakUI: General > Settings -> Uncheck the Beep on Errors

Sources: tech-recipes, sonhaysytem.com and JSI FAQ.

Posted by: Chrissy Filed under: Windows Leave a comment

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Jeff
May 15th, 2007 - 05:29

Thanks a million! I use a laptop to terminal into my Vista machine at my desk from anywhere I am on my work campus, and the beep was driving me bonkers!!!

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Preston
May 21st, 2007 - 04:08

sc stop beep && sc config beep start= disabled

Did the trick thanks!

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nash stone
May 21st, 2007 - 21:35

I have dell dimension 520 C. For no resons it keeps beeping. so i came in search of the same. I would try these tips. I f it works would surely let u & others know about it. Thanks

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Sicarius
June 2nd, 2007 - 18:49

sc config beep start= disabled

worked for me. I love the silence. Thanks!

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Adam
August 24th, 2007 - 00:27

sc stop beep && sc config beep start= disabled

That one worked for me!

Thanks a bunch.

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Margit
September 13th, 2007 - 16:18

No 3 worked for me – thank you very much!!!!!!

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sharvey
March 11th, 2008 - 08:09

Thanks, worked great, no more annoying beep!!!

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p-hizzle
April 6th, 2008 - 07:45

net stop beep shut my pdsm4 2003 r2 server up. Thanks

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Bob
April 23rd, 2008 - 10:51

#3 worked on my Vista laptop (HP 27xx), and it didn’t require a reboot. It was particularly annoying when using an older version of ACDSee or the latest version of Microsoft Money. Thanks!

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Koushik
June 16th, 2008 - 22:50

Thanks a LOT..
I am using the headphones.
This High Freq Noise (Beep) was driving me crazy.
I could have lost my hearing capabilities!!!!.
Thanks again.

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zolo
September 21st, 2008 - 18:40

Thanks, I was searching for this. In XP I used to use widows power toys (I guess that’s the name), and one of the first things I do after a windows installation, is disable this nonsense 98 style beep. It doesn’t work under Vista though, so your solution was handy (#1).

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F Murray Rumpelstiltskin
February 11th, 2009 - 08:28

#4 without a reboot. I would have rebooted a dozen times to stop that sound…

Thank you for this post – I just installed some packages into Cygwin and Vista decided to play that friggin’ beeping sound when I used cat to output html files.

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Selvol
April 16th, 2009 - 19:48

The First command saved my ear.
Thank you.

Also you should mention how to run the command.
Some people still don’t use the “run” command or just
don’t know how.

Xp
Start menu \ run \ Paste the code here \ Enter

Thank you

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Dave Miyares
June 19th, 2009 - 22:11

Thank you! It’s now 1am and the baby is FINALLY GETTING BACK TO SLEEP after I woke him up with a bad cut & paste into MySql! Ooofff…

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Ric
June 22nd, 2009 - 08:49

Good work, thanks mate. I was all set to do it the classic old school method (ie: cut the fecking wires to the speaker).

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Tiiman Kaiteie
June 29th, 2009 - 16:14

hey, what about this peep type: peeeep, peep peep? and besides, my laptop didn’t display anything but i know it booted ok cos i heard the sound of the welcome screen. no display at all… totally black. i already tried removing the RAM and turned it on, and the peep was no more but the laptop won’t display anything or booted. once i remounted the RAM and the peep comes on again. any tips or ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated, please.

Zman.

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Vasu
July 7th, 2009 - 18:51

Thanks a lot for this tip! This beep was driving me crazy. Really crazy! First time when I put my headphone on my ears and adjusted the volume, i was so startled and the fricking beep almost made me deaf. I was fraid to put on my headphones for a long time, not knowing when the next beep will happen. Whoever came with the idea of high frequency beep ? Thanks a lot again!!

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Sven
October 29th, 2009 - 15:19

Thank You!

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