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.
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Disable the Windows Vista Startup Sound
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Pimp My Windows Vista: How to change your sound scheme
How to disable or change sounds in Windows Vista
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Comments
Vista Beep Ruining my Ears!!!
I too have tried all of the suggestions:
The 'Beep' option doesn't appear in the device manager
I tried to replace the beep with a recorded file with no sound
I tried using the CMD prompt and it wouldn't even allow the commands to be entered.
Please for the love of God, help me with this problem. I know when I am adjusting volume, and tapping the buttons on my laptop; I don't need the awful beep to 'alert' me of this, thus hurting my ears in the process.
ps. Why does microsoft constantly do things like this; it's MY computer, shouldn't I get to control the personalization of it. Should've just gone with a MAC....
Life-effing-saver
man, I have been searching for a solution like this forever. whenever I RDP into a work server that damn beep sounds off. It's particularly annoying when I've got my laptop in bed and my wife is asleep. I've tried disabling other sound-related things and finally this is the answer. I applied the net stop beep service solution above at the command prompt (DOS window for us old dudes).
Thanks for posting this and god bless the internet(s).
thank you, the beep's gone.
thank you, the beep's gone.
It didnt work
I don't understand it. I did exactly as said and have check it again and the beep is disabled but still it beeps every time I select some things. How can this happen? I tried the command prompt commands and it errored saying beep was disabled! It seems like some others have had no luck but there has been no response to their questions.
Sound scheme turned on
You might have disabled the beep but you still use the Windows Vista sound scheme. Disable that as well from the Control Panel.
Check out this article:
http://www.vista4beginners.com/Disable-Windows-Vista-Startup-Sound
Ciprian, thank you so much!
Ciprian, thank you so much! That's the only thing that worked for me (changing the sound scheme to no sound). The volume beep is gone too!
I HATE Windows
Thank you! I hope someone fires the guy that decided to default the beep to be "on" but then hide the "off" button.
to stop it without
to stop it without restarting (for that time)
$~:net stop beep
preview is for pussies
Just go to sounds from
Just go to sounds from desktop settings and set the sound setting to windows defaut. This is the least damaging way to get rid of beeps on vista.
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Hey, I also couldnt see that "Beep" in the device manager, but what I saw was there was a Ding.waw attached to something like "Default Beeping" (I am not sure beeping or beep since I am not using Vista in English) I just turned it to "None" setting and found the simple solution right before my eyes. Sometimes simple things may take long since you have your mind confused I guess. What i did was to take sound settings to "Default" , find Default Beep, switch it to "none"
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