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Disable the speaker beeps on Windows

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Aaron Tiensivu has posted the commands you need to know to shut off the Windows speaker beep temporarily or for all time.

To temporarily disable the PC Speaker beep:
net stop beep

To disable the PC Speaker beep for good (until you undo this setting):
sc config beep start= disabled

Now you don't need to run out of the room screaming next time you make a mistake at the Command Prompt that would normally make the hills come alive with BEEP BEEP BEE BEEEP BEEEEP. One liners: Disable the PC Speaker beeps in 200x/XP/Vista - Link

Posted by Brian Jepson | Jan 23, 2008 03:00 AM
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Posted by: MakeFan on January 23, 2008 at 1:42 PM

I've never seen it done that way. In my opinion the right way to do it is:

1) Go to device manager (my computer, right click, properties, hardware tab, device manager)

2) In the top menu, click View->Show Hidden Devices

3) Expand the "Non-Plug and Play Drivers" section that appears below.

4) Right click on Beep and select disable. You can doble click on Beep for more options.

Posted by: Brian Jepson on January 23, 2008 at 1:57 PM

Thanks, MakeFan. That'll do the trick, too, but either procedure is fine. In fact, once you have the properties for Beep up in Device Manager, you can go to the Driver tab and click Start or Stop, which does the same thing as NET START/STOP.

I like the one-liner because it's fast; you can type it directly into the run box if you don't want to start up a Command Prompt. I use NET STOP/START for system services as well, so I don't have to drill down into the Services Administrative Tool.

- Brian

Posted by: William Mitchell on October 30, 2008 at 3:25 AM

Thanks!

Thanks so much for posting this. I've been blasted out of my chair many times by that stupid beep. No more!!