My work laptop would emit loud beeps occasionally when I hit the wrong button, performed an invalid action, or maybe just looked at it funny. No volume controls could disable the beep, as it came from an internal speaker. The beep is very loud and quite disturbing, and prompts many dirty looks from co-workers. After some web sleuthing, I found a couple of commands that would stop and permanently disable the computer beep:
net stop beep
sc config beep start= disabled
Enter these two commands exactly into a command prompt. Don't forget the space after the "=", it won't work without it.
The first command will stop the BEEP service, which is the Windows service responsible for constantly annoying me. The second command disables the service completely, and will prevent it from starting up the next time you turn on your computer. Now you can live happily beep-free, and your co-workers will thank you for it.
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thanks, i just eliminated my beep, and won't be missing it.
This only stops it till the next reboot, is there a permanent fix?
@anonymous (2)
That second command disables the service altogether. It shouldn't come back. Also, executing the second command should give you a "success" message.
Hope this helps!
My ear drums thank you a million times over!!
thanks this actually works, shouldn't you add a way to enable it again?
Anarith
@Anarith
Wow, that's the first time anyone's asked that. What, do you have a coworker you want to annoy? :)
I actually don't know how to re-enable it...
To re-enable the beep service, type the following in a command prompt:
sc config beep start= auto
net start beep
Note that this is boot-permanent; it will still be enabled after a reboot. Running the original two commands will disable it again.
If you only want to disable the beep for the current session, just use "net stop beep". This will stop the beep for the session, but it will be enabled again after rebooting.
I have been battling this beep problem on my HP running Vista Home edition for several months to no avail.
When I run the 1st command I get:
"The Beep service is not started"
The 2nd command: "[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS"
Both commands are keyed as Administrator. The 1st does nothing. The second stops the beep only after a restart but the beep ALWAYS comes back (i.e. I leave my computer on and connected to the internet when I am gone only to find the beep has re-started when I return).
I am beginning to think the only answer is to replace this computer that I paid $1,100 for less than 1.5 yrs ago.
Any suggestions are GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.
i cannot thank you enough for this. i was going nuts.
Thanks a lot.
Kudos, job well done!
Thank you, you've saved my eardrums.
Thank you, thank you, and thank you.
Been trying to stop the beep that comes with warning messages in Crystal Reports forever - thank you!
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