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??