To turn off the system speaker... The article in the website mentions that you can't remove it permanently...true, but you can Disable it.... in the device manager, you can find it under System Devices, System Speaker...Should work...haven't tried it but common sense says.... By the way, you can also use this trick to "get rid" of devices that you can't get drivers for in the OS you're using (for example, a lot of TV Tuner cards don't have drivers that work past windows 98 - how nice - but having them listed in the Device Manager causes lock ups, etc...just disable them.

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This wont work on win 2000, but this will: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound] "Beep"="no" "ExtendedSounds"="no" The values default to yes, and there is no way to change them to no from the gui. NOTE relogon required to take effect.

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We run NT at work and I believe this is exactly how our IS guy fixed the problem on our production floor. 27+ technicians running processes that use the system default beep gets annoying after awhile! Andreas is right, there's no way to shut it off via the gui. We've all tried it first before running screaming into the IS office ;-)


On Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 8:25 am, Andreas wrote:
>This wont work on win 2000, but this will:
>
>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound]
>"Beep"="no"
>"ExtendedSounds"="no"
>
>The values default to yes, and there is no way to change them to no from the gui.
>NOTE relogon required to take effect.

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Actually, If you go to the control panel and open "Devices" then scroll to the "Beep" device you can stop it, and make it disabled on startup... this solves it quite nicely... WinNT SP6...


On Sunday, May 5, 2002 at 8:16 pm, Beth wrote:
>We run NT at work and I believe this is exactly how our IS guy fixed the problem
>on our production floor. 27+ technicians running processes that use the system default
>beep gets annoying after awhile! Andreas is right, there's no way to shut it off
>via the gui. We've all tried it first before running screaming into the IS office
>;-)
>

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And if all else fails, simply select "mute" on the volume control in the tray, but that mutes ALL sound.


On Wednesday, June 12, 2002 at 4:56 pm, Tim wrote:
>Actually,
>
>If you go to the control panel and open "Devices" then scroll to the "Beep" device
>you can stop it, and make it disabled on startup... this solves it quite nicely...
>
>WinNT SP6...
>
>

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Open Computer Management (right-click the My Computer icon, and choose Manage), then click Device Manager. From the View menu, choose Show Hidden Devices. In the right-hand pane, under Non-Plug and Play Drivers, double-click "Beep." In the Beep Properties window that appears, choose choose "Do not use this device (disable)" from the drop-down box under Device Usage.

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Thank you so much. that damn beep drives me crazy. During all these years, it never occurred to me that there'd be 'hidden' devices.

On Monday, May 31, 2004 at 1:57 pm, hhfd wrote:
>Open Computer Management (right-click the My Computer icon, and choose Manage), then
>click Device Manager. From the View menu, choose Show Hidden Devices. In the right-hand pane, under Non-Plug and Play Drivers, double-click "Beep." In the Beep Properties window that appears, choose choose "Do not use this device (disable)" from the drop-down box under Device Usage.

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