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

Filed under: Tech Stuff — Written by Chrissy on Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 @ 9:24 am

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.

10 Comments   -
  • Comment by Jeff | May 15, 2007 @ 5:29 am

    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!!!

  • Comment by Preston | May 21, 2007 @ 4:08 am

    sc stop beep && sc config beep start= disabled

    Did the trick thanks!

  • Comment by nash stone | May 21, 2007 @ 9:35 pm

    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

  • Comment by Sicarius | June 2, 2007 @ 6:49 pm

    sc config beep start= disabled

    worked for me. I love the silence. Thanks!

  • Comment by Adam | August 24, 2007 @ 12:27 am

    sc stop beep && sc config beep start= disabled

    That one worked for me!

    Thanks a bunch.

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  • Comment by Margit | September 13, 2007 @ 4:18 pm

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

  • Comment by sharvey | March 11, 2008 @ 8:09 am

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

  • Comment by p-hizzle | April 6, 2008 @ 7:45 am

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

  • Comment by Bob | April 23, 2008 @ 10:51 am

    #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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