re: Stop beep in volume control
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 2:22 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by St*r
(1 messages posted)
I have a similar problem to Josh (quoted below) - I don't have administrative permission
on the (network) computers at work, and the main program I use bleeps every time
it asks a yes/no question...and it asks anywhere between one and five for every appointment
being booked. It's getting on my nerves.
To complicate things further, the computers run XP but the program in question comes
through a remote server running Vista. (I hope I've explained that OK as I'm not
an expert on servers.) I managed to get into Vista's Device Manager and supposedly
disable the beep - which didn't stop it coming back again another time - so I deleted
it. It still beeps, however, so I'm blaming XP - trouble is, the XP Device Manager
and command prompt thing won't let me change anything because I'm not an administrator.
Some days it's silent and some days the sound randomly reappears.
Also, I work in two different offices (one in the morning, one in the afternoon)
and some days the computer in one place beeps but the other one doesn't - in the
afternoons I don't always use the same computer so it probably doesn't just depend
on which PC I'm using.
Short of dismantling the computer and pulling out whatever makes the beep sound,
what can I do about it without administrative permission? Please please please can
someone suggest a solution as I've been spending a lot of work time online trying
to work out how to stop the beep before it drives me demented!!! (It could just be
my imagination, but I seem to get a lot more done when I'm not getting my brain hacked
to pieces by "BEEP!" for the majority of my working day...!)
On Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 1:13 pm, Josh wrote:
>I had this problem at work, and unfortunately none of us have admin rights to our
>computers, so without calling the help desk I could not do either of the above methods.
>However, I did find an alternative - Instead of disabling the "default beep", which
>unwittingly caused this problem, just change the sound to a .wav file that plays
>nothing - I used the sound recorder to record a quarter second of no noise, and
used
>that file. Now I know it's disabled, but Windows still thinks it has something to
>say.
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