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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thanks
thanks buddy,
this worked for me very well on my vista ultimate. I was looking for this since long..
annoying beeps and horns
Unfortunately, I have tried all of the above procedures and advise, step by step, and nothing has worked. First, I disabled the beep, and then I went to Sounds and set sounds to NONE. When I do that, it is even worse...a loud horn sounds every time I click on an email.
Pulling hair out :(
beep under vista
maybe this will help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944150/en-us/
cheers, osti
Slight Problem!
I made an error of Uninstalling the beep...which didnt stop the anoying noise!
after i had done this i came across this page and can see how to do it now, but cant because its not there anymore lol. i dont know wat to do. Help would be very appreciated.
thanks
what did you do?
What exactly did you do?
what i did
I opened up the device manager, right clicked on 'beep' and chose to uninstall it, this didnt turn off the beep. so it still makes the noise, but the 'beep' is gone from the devices and now i dont know wat to to.
Beep
I tried this method and didn't get the beep I wanted to go away. So went to the sounds and started testing all the beeps till I found the one that was annoying me. It turned out to be my pop up blocker beep. To fix this I went to tools on my Google toolbar, then options then edit Pop-Up-Blocker, uncheck the play sounds box. Finally.
Finally
I've been using a friend's laptop until I'm able to get my own, and whenever I backspaced too far in an IM program, I always got that bloody blood-curdling beep, and even on mute I would still get it (Which lead me to say it's the internal system beep). Was hoping to find an easy way to find a fix. Thank you for finding this and having an easy step-by-step method to go about it. Now I'll know how to fix it whenever I get my own computer and run into this problem.
Now if there was a way to actually fix the folder bug in Vista... I'll be truly happy. As the two different registry hacks I've tried have failed (and both of them were the BagMRU hacks, and neither one worked). I'm no longer able to open up folders in the same window, no matter what I do. I have theorized along with someone else I found to have the same problem, that it has to do with "Open" and "Explore". If someone could find a registry hack to switch the values around for those, I may have an actual fix. If anyone can lead me the right direction, I would seriously be a very happy camper. Oh, and to think that this bug was caused after installing some of the updates for Vista. Removed them since it was all kinds of screwed up, causing Pidgin to no longer run, along with some other programs I have on here, and with them causing this bug to pop up. Everything else is back to normal, minus the folder issue.
an easier way to kill the
an easier way to kill the beep is just to assign a silent .wav to the "select" feature in the sounds menu. i used wmapro.wav which was in my list already.
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