One liners: Disable the PC Speaker beeps in 200x/XP/Vista

These commands assume administrative rights on the PC.

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

So, if you are bothered right now by PC Speaker beeps and want them to go away even after a reboot, run net stop beep and then run sc config beep start= disabled.

The space between start= and disabled is required.

Posted by Aaron Tiensivu in Microsoft, Server, Vista, Windows OS, XP at 14:02 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (2)

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Thanks so much!
I have the instant messaging program Pidgin, and one of it's faults is that there is an error that makes it beep if you backspace in an instant message that you haven't typed anything in yet, it would beep.
The fix they had for it didn't work on my computer...

This shut it up! ^_^

-Ray

#1 Ray on 2008-01-23 20:46 (Reply)

when i type this in it sais that the net command is not recognized

#1.1 anounymous on 2008-01-25 15:30 (Reply)

That's how I got here too. Easily the most sanity-saving tip in ages!

#1.2 Jordax on 2008-03-05 08:01 (Reply)

Hi Ray,

there is an option in the GTK+:

"and just for everyones knowledge, what I thought was a typo was not, put

gtk-error-bell = 0

in the file %APPDATA%\.purple\gtkrc-2.0 "
from http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/3683

#1.3 ninlil on 2008-09-18 11:25 (Reply)

and, depending on which you used, type the following to enable:

net start beep

sc config beep start= boot

#2 West_Ninja on 2008-01-26 02:21 (Reply)

UR awesome! Worked like a charm. For a while I though I was destined to blow out my eardrums every time I adjusted the volume.

#3 Jeanette Davidson on 2008-03-02 00:47 (Reply)

thanks man!

#4 Jon Dell'Oro (Homepage) on 2008-04-28 19:20 (Reply)

Thanx!!

#5 Mordehai on 2008-08-25 06:34 (Reply)

Thank you, the pc speaker of my colleague was so annoying.

#6 l-r on 2008-10-01 08:56 (Reply)

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