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.