Disable the System Beep

Sun, 08/19/2007 - 00:49 — Ciprian

One of the small but annoying things in Windows Vista is the fact that the System Beep is enabled by default. Every time you encounter an error or you click through the menus of applications such as the AVG antivirus, you will hear a beep. In the beginning you might ignore it but after a while it becomes very annoying.

For those of you who want to get rid of the beep, in this tutorial we will show how to disable it.

First, go to your desktop and right click on the My Computer icon. From the drop-down menu select Manage.

In the Computer Management window go to System Tools -> Device Manager. If UAC is turned on, you will need to make some additional confirmations in order to access the list of devices.

Now you will need to go to the View menu and select Show hidden devices.

If you return to the Device Manager you will see a category of devices called Non-Plug and Play Drivers. Expand that list and select the Beep, as shown in the screenshot below.

Right click on the Beep and select Properties.

In the Beep Properties window go to the Driver tab. From the Startup scroll down list, select Disabled and press OK.

At the next restart, the Windows Vista System Beep will be disabled.

Comments

Mon, 09/03/2007 - 18:20 — Anonymous (not verified)

Thanks

This sure sounds like my prob with Vista Ultimate. I just disabled it and hopefully it wont happen again

Wed, 09/12/2007 - 07:42 — Tim S. (not verified)

This works

Thanks for posting this. It's exactly what I was looking for, although you might want to add that the user needs to restart their system for the change to actually take affect.

Sun, 09/16/2007 - 19:47 — Anonymous (not verified)

no restart required

thanks for the tip! Additionally, if you hit the 'Stop' button in the Current Status field before switching to disabled a restart is not even required to get rid of this *beep*

Mon, 10/22/2007 - 08:40 — Luis (not verified)

Beep

I have Vista Business and that option is not in the device manager, i can't turn the godamn beep off, any ideas??
PS: I already check show hidden devices, but not beep there, everything else but beep.

Sat, 11/17/2007 - 06:32 — Anonymous (not verified)

Beep

Mine worked after I clicked Stop and then disabled.

Sat, 12/29/2007 - 05:59 — Rob (not verified)

Here's what I did to solve

Here's what I did to solve that problem. I just stumbled on it because I forgot what I did and had to do this again for another computer.

In Control Panel>Hardware and Sound, click on "Change system sounds"

In the menu under the "Windows" header, find Select. I created a short wav file with less than a second of no sound, called it "No Sound.wav" and put it into the C:\Windows\Media folder. In the drop down box below the menu, I have No Sound selected and hit apply. This could be another option if you aren't able to change/see the "Beep" selection in Computer Management.

Tue, 03/11/2008 - 21:59 — DrRJP (not verified)

An easier way to kill the beep

Open a command window by clicking on START then RUN then type in CMD. Press .

At the command window prompt, type each line EXACTLY as written below and be sure to press ENTER [ENTER] after each line.

>net stop beep [ENTER]

>sc config beep start= disabled [ENTER]
^
NOTE: The space between "start=" and "disabled" is required.

These two lines will disable the beep right away and it will not return unless you specifically enable it.

If you wish to disable the speaker only temporarily until the next reboot, just type in the second line.

Thu, 10/02/2008 - 20:09 — Anonymous (not verified)

thanks

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