re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at 6:53 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by IH8Beeps (1 messages posted) I worked for Microsoft. We spent 6 years trying to hide that setting. I can't believe you found it. We owe you a ham. On Sunday, December 8, 2002 at 1:42 am, Brendan Perez wrote: > >I have a question about Turn >Off the PC-Speaker: > >After disabling all sounds, whenever I would move the volume up and down in Volume >Control it would beep when I stopped and/or released the mouse at my desired setting. > >In Windows 2k/XP there is a way to disable the beep, go into device manager, select >the "Show hidden devices" option, go to "non plug and play device" find that device >named "Beep" and set it to disabled. > >The MS tech support flunky who said it was a motherboard problem should be boiled >in oil for such a blatant lie. >My last 3 PCs, my brothers PC, and all PCs at my job "beep" from the PC speaker whenever >all sounds are disabled. This is very annoying. Written in response to: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Brendan Perez: Sunday, December 8, 2002 at 1:42 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Brendan Perez: Sun, Dec 8, 2002, 1:42 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (triplate: Sun, Dec 8, 2002, 4:09 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Frank: Wed, Feb 26, 2003, 12:37 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (urdvurk: Sun, Jun 15, 2003, 2:07 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Clyde Wilcox: Tue, Jan 6, 2004, 3:01 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Charles Steaderman: Wed, Jan 14, 2004, 2:44 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Brian: Tue, Mar 16, 2004, 7:09 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Shankar: Mon, Jun 7, 2004, 6:08 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Henrik: Mon, Nov 20, 2006, 2:21 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Henrik: Mon, Nov 20, 2006, 2:54 pm) Thanx... (TT: Thu, Feb 20, 2003, 10:05 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Avnish: Sat, May 17, 2003, 1:14 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (CitznFish: Sat, May 17, 2003, 10:38 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Idiot: Wed, Jul 23, 2003, 8:54 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (mrx: Sat, Aug 30, 2003, 3:28 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (mike: Mon, Nov 17, 2003, 5:42 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Uno Fonseca: Mon, Jun 21, 2004, 4:56 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (mouse: Mon, Sep 20, 2004, 6:02 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Bi$hop: Sun, Jan 9, 2005, 7:42 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Jose A. Romero L.: Tue, Nov 18, 2003, 7:53 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (matriarka: Mon, Jun 7, 2004, 8:38 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (matriarka: Mon, Jun 7, 2004, 9:08 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (joy: Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 2:15 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (IH8Beeps: Tue, Dec 14, 2004, 6:53 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Crys: Thu, Aug 25, 2005, 3:57 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Kathryn Summers: Mon, Sep 5, 2005, 4:06 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Yi Ke: Sat, Sep 10, 2005, 8:26 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Kathy: Mon, Sep 19, 2005, 5:29 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Joel Wagoner: Wed, Nov 30, 2005, 3:09 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (lonedog: Sun, Feb 5, 2006, 5:01 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (bobafett: Wed, Feb 22, 2006, 6:43 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (James: Sat, Jun 3, 2006, 4:53 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (beep-beep: Wed, Jan 24, 2007, 3:30 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Andrew: Fri, Mar 9, 2007, 1:01 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (vamsi: Tue, Jun 12, 2007, 5:26 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (housiemousie2: Tue, Aug 14, 2007, 11:12 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Stephen: Tue, Feb 26, 2008, 5:09 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Zach: Thu, Jul 10, 2008, 8:52 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Mark: Sun, Nov 9, 2008, 9:40 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (John Schmidt: Mon, Dec 1, 2008, 7:25 am) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (halcyon1234: Mon, Oct 19, 2009, 12:54 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (MartinM: Mon, Oct 19, 2009, 2:17 pm) re: Comment about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (plino: Tue, Nov 3, 2009, 1:58 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum