re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' Thursday, March 9, 2006 at 10:48 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jerry Ryberg (1 messages posted) Well, thank you guys, (this is 3/9/06) for telling me how to get rid of that BEEP!! I was never clear on why it was there to begin with. Never liked it. Thanks again. jryberg On Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 11:36 pm, Steve Holden wrote: >I have a comment about Turn >Off the PC-Speaker: > >I found that even modifying the sound scheme didn;t affect the command window's response >to a CTRL-G (BEL) character in the output. No matter what sound settings I made (muting >the speakers, changing the volume) I would still get this BEEP at a heart-attack >inducing volume level. > >Eventually I found that in Windows XP's "Advanced" options on the "Volume Control" >applet (double-click the speaker in your system tray to bring this up) there is finally >a "PC Spk Mute" checkbox that will shut the bloody thing up. > >If someone knows how to replace that horrible noise with a sensible sound I'd like >to know. Written in response to: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Steve Holden: Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 11:36 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Steve Holden: Thu, Mar 31, 2005, 11:36 pm) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Mark: Fri, Apr 1, 2005, 1:05 am) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Steve Holden: Fri, Apr 1, 2005, 7:38 am) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (wilco: Mon, Jul 11, 2005, 1:44 pm) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Rich: Mon, Oct 31, 2005, 10:20 pm) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Steve Holden: Mon, Oct 31, 2005, 11:41 pm) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Jerry Ryberg: Thu, Mar 9, 2006, 10:48 am) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Stan: Fri, Mar 10, 2006, 8:54 am) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Fester: Wed, Mar 29, 2006, 2:11 pm) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Guitaristachino: Mon, May 8, 2006, 7:52 am) YOU ROCK!: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (IcerC: Sat, Jul 8, 2006, 9:29 am) This is the TRUE fix!!!! (brento1138: Sun, Sep 10, 2006, 7:26 am) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Jeremy: Mon, Nov 13, 2006, 5:44 am) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Jeremy: Mon, Nov 13, 2006, 5:51 am) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Adrian: Sat, Mar 24, 2007, 4:25 am) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Sid: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 6:47 pm) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (splitDiff: Thu, Jun 21, 2007, 6:54 am) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Bill: Tue, Jun 26, 2007, 6:20 am) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (sstolarik: Mon, Apr 6, 2009, 9:13 pm) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (nsnaveen: Wed, Jul 4, 2007, 4:15 am) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Ben: Wed, Dec 3, 2008, 2:28 pm) re: Question about 'Turn Off the PC-Speaker' (Barney the Dinosaur: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 5:47 pm) 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