Disable beeping Sound in Vista/XP/2003/2000
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If you want to disable beeping sounds in Vista/XP/2003/2000 follow any one of the method.These commands assume administrative rights on the PC.Works especially well to hush Terminal Services Beeping.
Method 1
From Local Machine
To disable the PC Speaker beep temporarily from the command line type the following
net stop beep
To disable the PC Speaker beep for good run the following command
sc config beep start= disabled
if you want to disable beeps to go away even after a reboot, run the following commands
net stop beep
sc config beep start= disabled.
The space between start= and disabled is required.
Method 2
From Remote Machine
If you want to disable beeping sounds from remote machine run the following commands
sc \remoteMachine stop beep
sc \remoteMachine config beep start= disabled
Method 3
For windows XP/2000/2003 Users
Right click on My computer->Properties->Hardware->Device Manager->View -> Show Hidden Devices -> Non Plug and Play -> Beep -> Right click and select Disable
Now you need to reboot your system
Method 4
Using Tweak UI
Open TweakUI and click on General–>Uncheck the Beep on Errors and click on ok
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Good information. Non Geeks can stop the beeping sound by using Tweak UI method. Geeks can stop beeping sound by the other three methods.
thank much for this tip.
the beeping sound was driving me crazy, now it has stopped.
excellent instructions!
thanks so much for your tips…but none of them worked.
in my hidden device list…the “beep” menu is now gone…. i imagine somehow in my aggrivation in trying to fix this i deleted or uninstalled it…
the command prompt also does not work…
any other ideas for vista beeps??
Great simple fix for that annoying beeping windows sound its so irritating!!!!
wow , dude,
it worked,
it was pain in ass and i used to feel some kind of Heart pain when it BEEPs unwanteldy , unknowingly,
thx
Still beeps for me
… my eardrums are scrambled eggs now
This doesn’t get rid of the bell sound when clicking on something invalid. My computer is used for playing music and occasionally I need to set the master volume using that little speaker icon in the sys tray (xp or vista). If you click and drag the slider, an awful beep sound will occur. I will be one happy dj the day I figure out how to permanetely get rid of that sound. I tried removing the PC speaker but this noise comes from the sound card. I also tried changing the sound to less anoying one but there has to be a way to just turn it off somehow.
Thank you so much! I’ve searched so many topics all over the net and couldn’t get my particular beep to stop and the command line worked! THANK YOU!!!
Oh thank goodness! You guys are my heros! We have a new system at work that uses the PC speakers to give an error beep for just about everything (typing an incorrect option, etc). There’s no way we’d be able to stand 30 users in one room all learning the system and beeping away every 2.5 seconds.
Phiuh.. thanks for give me this tricks, its really disturbing this noise…
Relieved of annoying sounds. Even my Service Engineer also could not do that. Saved lot of time. In one word, excellent service.