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Turn Off the Annoying Windows XP System Beeps
When you spend a lot of time in front of your computer, the annoying beeps start to drive you mad after a while. I really don’t need to be told that I hit the wrong key anymore, so I’ve compiled a list of how to turn off all the system beeps in Windows XP.
One of the most irritating beeps happens when you use the Volume control… but there are other beeps, such as on error dialogs or when you hit the wrong key.
Disable Beep in Device Manager
Open up Device Manager by right-clicking on Computer and choosing Properties, then on the Hardware tab you’ll find the button for Device Manager.
Select View \ Show hidden devices from the menu.
Find Non-Plug and Play Drivers in the list, and then right-click on “Beep” and disable it:
When it prompts you to reboot, select no, and then right-click again and choose Properties this time. On the Driver tab, change the Startup type to “Disabled” and then click the “Stop” button if you are able to.
This should disable the system beep speaker, but it probably won’t change the volume control beep, so continue on.
Disabling Beep in Registry
Open up regedit.exe through the run box, and then navigate down to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound
Find the “Beep” key on the right-hand side and change the value to “no”.
Disable Beep in Sounds Panel
Open up Control Panel and find the Sounds and Audio Devices panel, choose the Sounds tab and then find “Default Beep” in the list.
Change the sound drop-down on the bottom to “None” and then click Apply. This should disable the volume control beep.
You’ll want to also change Critical Stop to “None” as well, and should probably also turn off some of the other items.
You can also use TweakUI to get rid of some of the beeps, but if you follow the items on this page you shouldn’t need that.
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- Published 01/11/08
The steps are;
1. Right-click on My Computer
2. On the Hardware tab, click on [Device Manager]
3. On the “View” menu, select “Show hidden devices”
4. Under “Non-Plug and Play Drivers”, right-click “Beep”
5. Click “Disable”
6. Answer [Yes] when asked if you really want to disable it
7. Answer [No] when asked if you want to reboot
8. Right-click “Beep” again.
9. Click “Properties”
10. On the “Driver” tab, set the Startup type to Disabled
11. Click [Stop]
12. Click [OK]
13. Answer [No] when asked if you want to reboot
This is one of the first things I do when I have to rebuild a PC. I didn’t know about the registry tweak though – that can come in handy for unattended installations. Thanks!
re: “Turn Off the Annoying Windows XP System Beeps?
I did all these things and my computer still beeps when a download completes. In the registry I even went back and tried this:
{default] REG_SZ {value not set} I changed this to 0
Beep REG_SZ no
ExtendedSounds REG_SZ yes I changed this to no
I am grateful that while trying this I noticed in the Sounds and Audio Devices Properties where to turn off the Windows startup and shutdown annoying sounds and that worked.
This is a sanity-saver!
I was using a database that was beeping at me twice for each data item (there are a couple of hundred of them to be processed), and I was slowly starting to become ‘beep-happy’ when my colleague sent me this link.
Pure, silent bliss!
Thanks sooooooo much!
Phew… thanks a lot. I was right about smashing my box to pieces ;-) What a relief…
I followed every step twice but , my pc still beeps anoyingly
Which annoying beep does the disabling beeps in registry step get rid of?
Thanks for the help. I use mysql for school and every time I make a mistake in the syntax of a command, the beep for the error is louder on my laptop than any other computer beep I have heard elsewhere.
Following these instructions will disable ToggleKeys; the setting which sounds a beep whenever you hit the CAPSLOCK or NUMLOCK keys.
That was very helpful indeed thank you
you rock – great article!
God! You saved my life! You dunno how mad I used to get while I was in a library or stuff and I got these annoying scandalous beeps just because I mistyped my pwd!
Thank you a lot!
Thanks for the sanity !!!
thank you! I love you for this, I would hug and kiss you if you were here. I have been so angry about this for years. Our environment is so sound-polluted it’s driving me mad. Now I can go on to the next task, to mute colleagues and their cell signals.
thanks very much- that beep noise was so loud it was driving me crazy.
thanks again.
Thanks a bunch! This post helped me solve that irritating problem. That beep was horrible when wearing ear phones, it seemed to beep at full system volume into the hears.
No beeping annoyance for every Windows pop-up! Bliss! Thanks!
Thanks a million! Always hated the beep, but nearly killed my brand new laptop when it piped that beep FULL FORCE through my headphones while gaming! My husbnd found this site and together you saved my sanity!
I’ve made all the system, device manager and registry changes suggested, the beeping persists. One reference I’ve found suggests that since I use the Award bios version, the cause is a memory or video issue. I’ve re-seated both the video card and the memory sticks, issue re-occurs. What shall I do next?
Author. You are the best. The best “how to”article I ever came across. Well done.
This article is a lifesaver. This method was the only thing that allowed me to finally shut off the sounds in the guest machines running windows under VMWare. THANK YOU!
Excellent man! its awesome, really wanted to get rid of this and couldnt find the solution. its great that sound was driving me crazy.errrr
Thanks alot!
I’m still awaiting reply to my entry of 6/4/08.
Even XP Smoker Pro hasn’t done anything for my issue during the few hours I’ve used that utility thus far.
Oh thank you. Thank you. I thought I was alone; & was considering putting a switch on the speaker. Now life has become bearable. However:-
a) On implementing all of your recommendations, I still got a lot of beeps until I entered ‘No Sounds’ in the ‘Sound scheme’ box of the ‘Sounds and Audio Devices Properties’ panel – ref the last picture of your article.
b) I still get beeps during the close-down/re-start following a new software installation. Any ideas?
Thanks for the help. The software I run has a system beep every time you shut it down. Well, one day i was listening to my headphones, I forgot about the beep and well lets just say I’ll never do that again.
At least I won’t be able to have it happen again.
Thank you very much. My ears are still ringing from the last beep through my headphones. One time i was in the library and connecting to wireless network and it beeped so loud in my headphones that i jumped up…i was humiliated by the beep.
Thank you so much, your instructions were so easy to follow!!! and I am so thankful to have that beep gone
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Thank you very much >>>> Helpfull topic
YAyyy!!
thank u
Thank you for helping me not throw my computer out the window. Device manager solution worked like a charm.
Brilliant, thanks! This was the one stupid beep I could never turn off on my PC, and it drove me insane. This has definitely been helpful. Thanks!
A great comprehensive post about a recurring gripe. Thanks!
Thanks..it helped it get rid of that irritating Beep
Awesome! Thank you so much, now I got rid of those annoying beeps… Thank you so much!
Thanks a billion! You saved my head from exploding! :-)
Have a nice day!
Thank you. Life saver…
Thank you very much, it worked. Now I will not have to unless a rage murder in the office:-)
What XP theme is that in the article?
I followed your procedure but still got sporadic beeping. Eventually I discovered that the CPU temperature was just exceeding the trigger level that I had set in the BIOS. The problem would have been trival to solve if the person who wrote the BIOS had thought to program a written message to accompany the beeping.
Generally useful advice but this a hack for the particular mySQL problem you faced.
Simpler options are to run your mysql with –no-beep.
A simplex global solution is to run ‘net stop beep’ the beep service would be stopped.
Ref: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=17088
Awesome. I have suffered my whole life under the cruel tyranny of the system beep. It is a hateful foe. This article has greatly encouraged my confidence that mankind will continue to overcome great obstacles, and will continue to thrive on the earth. Thank you.
I cannot tell you how much this helped me. I have a digitizing program that started beeping after an upgrade I did to it. I called the company, I went to several computer shops and NO ONE knew what to do! I could not draw my own designs anymore because the sound drove me and everyone around me crazy. I was thinking maybe of just getting a new computer. You saved me big bucks! Thank you SO MUCH!!!
Hey thanks for this!!! I set up computers all day long at my desk and it gets soooo freakin annoying. Much appreciated!
Thanks for the tip. It’s amazing what we go through to disable Microsoft’s “features”.
Thanks so much! The system beep is so annoying when you have your earplugs on and that it ignores the volume that you chose for your music. It has only one volume: LOUD!
YOU ROCK!
Stupid beeps driving me nuts, you have saved my sanity :-)
Thank you very much for the useful info~! finally that annoying system beep is gone. *cries in happiness*
Dude, you have literally, and with no hint of over exageration, spared my sanity!
Cheers
very, very helpful..I had no idea about the hidden play and plug. worked like a charm
Thank you so much.
Thank you very much indeed,
Listening to music or watching vids on the computer, the beep was killing my ears.
The steps in the Device Manager are enough to disable the volume beep but one must also stop the service on the properties tab of the driver to see the immediate effects.
Thx again.
Thanks for the article. I followed the steps and was very hopefully that I was telling AutoCAD to shut the hell up, but after the steps, it still beeped. I re-rentered the control panel item and looked through the list and found one called Exclamation, which I set to none and BINGO!! no more annoying beeps from a window asking me if I want to keep the changes for 6 billionth time. YES! Computer, learn my patterns… sheesh. :P
thanks very much.
it was badly annoying me very badly..
thanks again…….
Thanks This was very helpful.
Blah…..i got the same problem…
Hi
I would like to say.. this is fantastic…. the beeping noise was driving me mad and I had three laptops to sort out.
Thank you.
Sophia
Very helpful, for a Microsoft oversight. (no beep should be the default).
I kiss the ground you walk on! That noise deafened me every time I changed my volume or connected wirelessly to the internet. It’s gone now. I love you!!!
you can also goto system properties and just turn off the system speaker that way
good help
What everone else has said in praise and more – and it was so easy.
Thank you! One less patient for the asylum …
My ears and my sanity thanks you. Another lousy “feature” of M$ sorted.
thank you soooo much, my comp irritates my colleagues but i had no idea what to do to stop the stupid beep.
Many thanks!!!!!!!!
It’s so great not to hear this cracking sound anymore!!!!
Thank you!! My Dell Latitude D630 has (had ;-) ) a very loud beep.
Like everyone else who’s commented here, just wanted to say thank you for solving this INCREDIBLY annoying problem. Hopefully MS engineers look at pages like this and disable it by default someday…
Thank you! It drove me nuts.
Thank you very much for posting this. Of course I had the same problem when I had my head phones on unexpected VERY LOUD beeps were scaring a hell out of me. I am very glad that you posted this helpful and working advice. I did not need to modify Registry.
Wonderful solution. I did not have to work the registry. Thank you!!! Another attempt by MS to drive its users insane thwarted…
Thanks a lot for this useful info.. i and my co workers get annoyed when they hear a lot of system beeps. It helped me very much.
Thank you!!! xD that beep was so anoying!
Thanks very much for this tip. I am so blessed to know about this, so now my eardrum is healed from hearing loud noises from my computer.
What a lovely corner. I have learnt alot from these tips. Hooray! no more beeps.
WindowsKey + Pause|Break –> Hardware Tab –> Device Manager is a useful shortcut for this one…
start->run, put this line and hit enter
sc stop beep && sc config beep start= disable
my computer is beeping at startup..
how to troubleshooting… and why it’s beeping?
Thank you so much. Very clear instructions. Worked a treat. Improved the quality of my life… :-)
While the system beep only annoys me, for some reason it SCARES the hell out of my poor dog and sends her running for the hills. So Thank You from the both of us!
From command line:
NET STOP BEEP
My computer “purrs” to me – I have narrowed it down by watching Task Manager “processes” & when it purrs the only process that runs at exactly the same time is BCMWLTRY.exe or WLTRYSVC.exe
This is quite annoying and I would like to get it to stop…but how?
Thanks so much! I just recently wiped my computer clean and put XP on it. . . Vista was awful. . . And for some reason I was getting all of these system beeps every time I clicked on something twice etc. I use my computer a lot in class and did not want to have to deal with this lol. Your instructions were very simple. I appreciate it!
I watch webinars and listen to training calls all the time and have to adjust volume for each. I prefer to use earphones which helps drown out ambient noise but when I adjust volume, that beep just about blows my eardrums out. Why someone thought it imperative to add this “feature” is beyond me but a million thanks for the instructions on how to disable it.
I don’t have access to the registry or Device Manager on my work PC, so I have put drugninja’s command:
sc stop beep && sc config beep start= disable
in a .bat file in my startup folder.
To disable the PC Speaker beep from the command line type the following: net stop beep
Thanks – very useful article
Great Article! Thanks so much i bookmarked it and use it anytime I have a new computer or reset mine. Disables that annoying beep every time! Thanks.
thanks – as above – blowing my eardrums when listening with headphones – excellent job !
I need the different beep explicatation for my computerlessons on Thursday 19 November 2009.
Can You help m please?
Where can I find this?
Thank you very Much.
Kindly Regards,
Lieve Hellemans
Unlike almost everyone here I find the volume beep really useful. It’s a quick test that sound is working and is handy to set the level befroe you start doing something. They could have made it a settable option though, as it obviously annoys lots of people.
Thanks for that great and effective tip!!! So much better not to have that disruptive volume beep in xp while listening to music.
Take care and thanks again!
Thanks so much for this article, every time I started typing too fast that beep would drive me mad.
Appreciate it!
Cheers and happy Holidays
Ben
Thank you! I’ve wanted to disable the system beep for about five years…
Omfg. Thank you!!!
You’re a legend :D
Thanks mate, i was starting to hear beeps in my dreams!
Thanks a lot. My system was beeping every time I start it, login, logoff.
Was so happy to see this, but it didn’t work after following the instructions to the letter.
Now what?
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I think the hearing in my ears just diminished again thanks to that annoying beep going off in my headphones. I should sue Bill Gates. That is so frigging annoying. Classic Windows — obtrusive notifications. I couldn’t ever figure out how to turn that thing off — until I found your article. Again, thank you. And my ears thank you too.
I’m from Colombia, I’m in Spain and I want yo say:
Thank you very much :D
Thank you very much. It (device manager setting) really works.
Thanks a million for this, really saved me a lot of frustration :)
Thank you SO MUCH – if this works after my restart I now won’t end up being circulated in one of those email fwd video’s of people snapping at work and trashing the office
That was indeed a superb article about our health!
Keep up the good work! ;-)
Wow, this article was written/posted over two years go, and it’s still saving people (myself included) from the annoyance and misery of the beep.
THANK YOU FOR THIS, WHAT A SANITY SAVER!!!
I was still getting some beeps but tried what AGA suggests:
On implementing all of your recommendations, I still got a lot of beeps until I entered ‘No Sounds’ in the ‘Sound scheme’ box of the ‘Sounds and Audio Devices Properties’ panel – ref the last picture of your article.
THANKS AGAIN….
Disabling beep in registry did the trick
Hi,
after installing windows 7 my pc is overheating very quickly but when I reinstalled XP it works fine, I have installed all the updated drivers but still have the same issue, any suggestions???
Yeah! Cool hint for my ibm t43 . On my Fujitsu laptop Volume Control has an option to adjust the level or mute the PC beep. It has always been muted so not an issue for me. Very annoying on the ibm however.Could be soundmax(ibm) vs realtek hd (fujitsu) difference???
After doing the above, it may be necessary to go to Control Panel>Sounds and disable ALL or just the Beep sound as well. This worked for me.
Thanks a bunch, my friend’s Win XP laptop finally stopped giving me arrhythmia! I had previously removed *all* sounds from “Sounds and Audio Devices Properties”, but the beep had persisted until I found and used your “Show hidden devices” trick.
Jeez, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this. I’ve been working on Dell Latitude D630s for over 3 years now, and running VMs would cause me to jump out of my skin every time a Virtual Server system prompt would go off (which was often). I couldn’t disable it in the BIOS, couldn’t control the volume, and MUTE didn’t seem to stop the evil system beep.
You’ve saved my hearing–thanks again! :D
Thanks man. I love the Windows 7, but the beeps nearly drove me crazy. It was atop my to-do list this morning and I got it done. Thanks
I swear those beeps are so annoying, I’ve now used this edit on all my computers!
Thanks!
Thanks again & again
Thanks
I was once controlling a fart and the beep made me lose control
damn beeps
Thanks so much! My beep was off until I started running a program I was working on which used the PlaySound API. For some reason that started it up again and it was annoying the crap out of me but now it’s gone :D.
Thank you so much for this post.
I have been looking for this solutions for saveral months. Thank you so much for posting this informative article. Much appreciated.
you have no idea how much i love you right now! i use my laptop (craptop as far as im concerned) in class all the time, and mine beeps the loudest. i have no sound driver, so it uses the normal system beep and headphones dont reroute it. imagine how excited i got about this! its amazing the silence this give is!!! THANK YOU!!!
Thanks, I was really getting pissed off there haha.
Thanks a lot… I can now code in the Library :-)
Lifesaver… :O
THANK YOU!!
Thanks a ton!
Thank you. On my own systems I normally remove the beep using a soldering iron but this is a virtual machine on a work system so that option was out. Thank you!
Thanks, it helps to go away annoying beep. keep up good work
Thanks much, and please keep up the good work !
Very, very good job. Thanks a lot.
It suffices to choose “No sounds” in the menu “Sound scheme” (tab Sounds, Sounds and Audio Devices panel, Control panel..) All system sounds will be muted, you don´t need neither the register nor Device manager..
I Love you MAN!
I have a better solution. Go to the c:\Windows\Media or search for Media to find the Directory that your version of windows uses. Then used Audiology which is a FREE audio editor to load each file then edit its volume. I turned down the most annoying ones 6db – 10db.
I have saved them in a file to copy back whenevery I reinstall windows again but there isn’t any way to upload it here or I would so others can use it.
Perhaps the author can do it and share the results. All the WAV sound files reduced 6db. All the WAV files reduced 10db.
Chido nice!
Thanks man! I use earphones so I keep the volume extremely low and every time it goes off, it beeps at full volume a few millimeters from my eardrum. I honestly thought It might actually effect my hearing someday but thanks so much!
thnk you so much
Choosing the “no sounds” scheme did nothing for the volume panel beep for me. Disabling the beep in device manager did the trick; I’m so happy, lol.
Thanks you much for me and on behalf of my PC for saving her I was gunna toss her through the window !
i used the method by one of the user name GIL and it works!..
will this solve the beep.sys error at boot that is listed in event log???
thx
Thanks you it works !!
You save the life of so much persons around the world ^^
so,so….tnx!
Thanks!! This was a great help.
Thank You Thank You Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bravo! Thanks SOOO Much!!! I think you’ve saved my hearing :)
Paras ohje pitkään aikaan KIITOS TEKIJÄLLE!!! ThankYOU!!
Good solution, thank you!
For those of you who’re not Windows experts, open the PC and cut the wires to the little speaker.
This solution works for everybody!
Thank you !
Thank you SO MUCH – thought I was going to have to stop listening to music on my laptop!!
Yeah, thanks, my goddamn keyboard still makes an annoying sound, all the forums i go there seems to be an answer but no, there is the question but no fucking solution! WTF makes my keyboard beep with every fucking button? How in the hell do i dis fucking able it?
O.M.G. i cant believe that nerve racking annoying sounds gone! thank you
Thanks a mil!! I’m able to remove this beep sound following you doc….thanks.
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH, I WAS LOOKING EVERY WHERE ON THE COULDN’T FIND A GOOD INSTRUCTION RATHER THAN GO TO CONTROL PANEL MUTE ALL SOUND…WAS REALLY ANNOYING FOR AT WORK WHEN A EMAIL ARRIVED AND I WAS LISTENING TO MUSIC ON A “SKULL CANDY” HEADPHONE (REALLY LOUD) AND WHEN THE MUSIC WAS PAUZED I WAS CONCENTRATED SUDDENLY I HEAR A FREAKING LOUD SOUND “BEEEP” A EMAIL ARRIVED…OR WHEN I WAS BUSY CHANGING THE VOLUME LEVEL AS YOU SPECIFY HERE… UGHHH… THANX SO MUCH!!
Finally a fix! Thanks a million times. I’m sooo glad to be rid of the beep everytime a window decides to open. I see the window, thank you system beep.
Dude, you rock.
Have been looking for this fix for quite a while now.
Thanks!
Ahhhhh… blissful silence. No more annoying loud BEEP accompanying “Save changes to Untitled?”
I didn’t do all the steps though, I just did the first part and stopped when I got to the “Disable Beep in Registry” section (because going into the registry makes me nervous).
I prepared myself to hear the beep again as I tried volume control.
When I tried volume control though, I noticed that the sound is now coming from the windows xp theme I’m using (e.g. Nature, Da Vinci, Space, etc)–which is how I wanted it in the first place. Not sure if it’ll stay that way after I reboot, but if it doesn’t, I’m so happy there’s a solution here!
Thank you, Geek-san. Why doesn’t Microsoft, in their wisdom, not only turn it off upfront, but simplify and get rid of all the “information” having to do with these detestable beeps?
Thank you. My computer was so glitch’n, certain times when I touch the mousepad on my laptop it would
Make a continuously beeping noise for awhile, Turn my volume & brightness up and down and the
keyboard had the shift key [Not Caps Lock] “toggled”.
It also made beeping noise when I connected & disconnected from a wifi signal, but lucky I use mouse keys and your tips, on turning off the annoying beeps.
Microsoft needs Beta Testers with a lot of time.
thank you. you’ve saved my ears!
Thank you very much. For some time the beep had morphed into some annoying error sound instead of the standard. The irritation factor was bad enough. With headphones in it was a health hazard!
im trying to control the volume of my windows sound effects how can i do that?
thanks so much!! it really helps. more power
this is so awesome, what a relief. thank you.
Thanks! I was about ready to break my laptop
Thanks dude … I would have never found that!!!!
-Henry G.
Trying to turn off a beep on a govt computer wont work when you dont have any permissions to turn off beep. I am now wearing earphones, this stupid beep has got to be about 75 decibels!! I tried putting tape over the speaker holes, but couldnt figure out which holes it was coming from so I taped them all, but it did no good. I tried putting a pillow over it and even putting it in a sealed box with bubble wrap, but it gets too hot. My co-workers think I am obsessed it. bummer
Thanks a lot))
net stop beep
C:\>net stop beep
@KevinT: you need Admin or atleast power users rights to do this.
After I got rid of the annoying beep I found my Windows XP Home PC “Device volume” and “Speaker volume” won’t go up to the eleventh mark it is stuck on the 8th mark.
If I move it up to the 11th it just snaps back to the 8th. They will go down but not up.
Any way to fix that?
If I had scrolled down to cut the wires first, THAT, is what I would have down instead of going to >Start >Run etc.
Thanks Tons!!!! My sound card on my laptop recently died and the only sound it makes now is that annoying BEEP, at start up and other times. I had no control of the volume, but I am glad I will never hear that again.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! That beeping was driving me bonkers!!
Thank you from me and my very happy colleague who had the problem!
Even better, you can turn the volume DOWN – not off. Just adjust the “Wav” volume lower than the master volume in the Volume Control window. (Right click on the sound icon and choose Volume Control or Start > Control Panel > Sound and Audio Properties > Click on the Advanced button on the first tab.)
My computer beeps every time i press a key! i followed all of these steps but this problem continues.
you’re my savour
Thanks alot.
It was great hint that worked for me. But the main problem of overheating (compaq presario 701ea) still there.
I hope I will find an approach to that as clever as you.
Thanks. Makes a huge difference if you have headphones plugged into your laptop. That beep goes right through you !!! Now it is gone forever :)
My work laptop was reimaged and was having that LOUD beep when logging in. Was so nice to look up my issue and see the resolution on line – worked for me!Thanks again!
Thank you very much. :-))
Hi,
I stopped some service from control panel> Admin tools >services. and now getting system beeps. I guess that its not recognising the sound drivers and hence firing system default beeps. Can any one help me please?
thanks gill for the solution – no more bleepin bleep
Nice!
Have to admit it would’ve taken a lot longer (forever?) without help.
Shame it’s so complicated in the first place.
THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!!
thank you .. My dogs appreciate the quiet!!
This article saved my day and my ears.
Thanks so much for putting this here god bless.
ANOTHER OPTION:
specifically for that annoying volume beep. Because I want to keep my “Caps Lock” beep (yes that is an option in XP!)
as above: Open up Control Panel and find the Sounds and Audio Devices panel, choose the Sounds tab and then find “Default Beep” in the list.
Simply replace that beep with a .wav consisitng of silence. Any basic audio software should let u record that.
My laptop beeps for two seconds with a black screen and then starts normally .So can you please help me to solve this problem ?
My beep comes from the computer, not the speakers, and I have done EVERY SINGLE THING posted on this and it won’t stop.
Kyle, im idea_man. im the hero rumored to be saving people like you. im best at this in solving any problem before it become a crisis. my idea always counts like i know all the planet and you were just a pitiful creature to me.
try unplugging the computer socket. and sleep.
if it helps, please donate $6 directly on my house.
My ears thank and salute you, great tip
Problem solved.. thankx mate..! but i want to know what is the reason behind that problem? anyways million Thankx and hats off..! :) sorry 4 my bad english………..!
I love you.
Thank you! PC-Speakers should be forbidden!
Simple,.effective… amazing. Thank you so much!
Ahhhhhhhhhh, much better. Thank you. The dreaded beepy computer that no one at work wants to use is now the nice and actually most modern computer that everyone will want to use all the time!
People used to laugh at whoever had to use it. I made it my mission to destroy that awful sound so there can finally be peace in the office.
Why the hell they think anyone would want to hear these horrible noises every time they press Ctrl etc I will never know. What an absolute hero you are.
Lot better. Really appreciated
Thank you SO MUCH! The beep was so loud when I requested certain actions that I jumped out of my skin every time, and was unable to work in the same room as anyone else. Phew!
Thank you very much, this article helps me a lot. Now I can rid of the beep
very very happy to finally crack this annoyance..thank you
One hundred milion thanks to you, your children, grandchildren and theire grandchildren.
Thanks indeed!
Thanks Gil, your instructions worked great for that annoying volume beep!!
Thank You.
Please! Teach me! How can one discover such things?
There is another (simpler) solution. I’ve killed all wav files from \vindoze\Media…
Why they (usoft) HIDE this – or anything?
Why they put things into places where they can be found by chance only? For another example hibernation has nothing to do with “power options”.
Our world is a difficult one…
Just tried this – couldn’t find the registry bit – but the rest works – and thank God it has! Won’t be changing the profile settings of XP again – before it was fine – now it is again – thanks so much!!!
Your information is very nice (Easy). Thanks lot