Single Beep When Deleting Documents and Email

[Jackpine]

Since yesterday, my PC makes a single beep when the following questions appear:
- Outlook - Are you sure you want to permanently delete the selected item(s)?
- Word - Do you want to save the changes to Document1?
- Recycle Bin - Are you sure you want to empty the recycle bin?

I can do all these things, but for some reason, the PC has started to make
the single beep whenever I do these operations. I don't have a clue why it's
doing this. There are no settings in Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices
that should cause this to happen. I also don't recall making any changes
that may be responsible.

Help is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Jose]

Since yesterday, my PC makes a single beep when the following questions appear:
- Outlook - Are you sure you want to permanently delete the selected item(s)?
- Word - Do you want to save the changes to Document1?
- Recycle Bin - Are you sure you want to empty the recycle bin?

I can do all these things, but for some reason, the PC has started to make
the single beep whenever I do these operations.  I don't have a clue why it's
doing this.  There are no settings in Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices
that should cause this to happen.  I also don't recall making any changes
that may be responsible.

Help is appreciated.  Thanks.

It it a beep from the built in PC chassis speaker or your external
speakers?

Let's pick Outlook and deleting a deleted item and that message about
permanently deleting are you sure...

It defaults to the Program event called Exclamation (Control Panel,
Sounds, etc.) so play it from there and see if that is what you hear.

Same for Outlook

Is that what you hear and you want to not hear any sound or change the
sound for those things?

 

[Jackpine]

The beep is from the PC speaker.

I deleted a deleted item from Outlook and it beeped when I was asked if I
was sure that I wanted to delete the item.

Exclamation in Control Panel/Sounds is not selected.

I never had this sound before when deleting, and I don't want it now.

 

[Paul]

The beep is from the PC speaker.

I deleted a deleted item from Outlook and it beeped when I was asked if I
was sure that I wanted to delete the item.

Exclamation in Control Panel/Sounds is not selected.

I never had this sound before when deleting, and I don't want it now.

Use the Sound control panel. Verify the settings in the "Audio" tab,
are pointed at the correct sound device. If your sound driver
was missing, they could be set to none. If there is no computer
sound available, Windows will use the "PC Beep" (the computer case
speaker for beeps) as a substitute. If you set the Sound control
panel to point at the sound device that controls your proper computer speakers,
maybe the symptoms may change.

Paul

 

[Elmo]

The beep is from the PC speaker.

I deleted a deleted item from Outlook and it beeped when I was asked if I
was sure that I wanted to delete the item.

Exclamation in Control Panel/Sounds is not selected.

I never had this sound before when deleting, and I don't want it now.

As mentioned in an earlier thread, within the last week, you can open
Device Manager, set to "show hidden devices", scroll down to "Non-Plaug
and Play Devices", and disable the "Beep" device.

 

[Jackpine]

That's what I ended up doing (disable Beep in Device Manager). But I wish I
knew the cause of why I started getting beeps the last couple of days when I
never had them for the last 4 years. I want to remove the cause, not just
the symptoms.

 

[Elmo]

That's what I ended up doing (disable Beep in Device Manager). But I wish I
knew the cause of why I started getting beeps the last couple of days when I
never had them for the last 4 years. I want to remove the cause, not just
the symptoms.

In the thread I mentioned, the sound card was not recognized, so the
beep was used alternately by the system. Hopefully someone can help you
discover the cause of your "beep". I would think it was a similar
problem, where the system doesn't see the sound card.. did you add a
hardware device, in particular, a wireless NIC? I've seen that device
use the same interrupt as the sound card; in that case, when the sound
card was used, the system froze.

Good luck.

 

[Jackpine]

No, I didn't any hardware devices. As I mentioned previously, the beep is
now gone by disabling beep in Control Panel. Interestingly, when I restart
the PC, I get the single beep which is supposed to happen. The other,
unwanted beep has not returned. I can live with that. Thanks all for the
suggestions.

 

[Jose]

No, I didn't any hardware devices.  As I mentioned previously, the beepis
now gone by disabling beep in Control Panel.  Interestingly, when I restart
the PC, I get the single beep which is supposed to happen.  The other,
unwanted beep has not returned.  I can live with that.  Thanks all for the
suggestions.

In the thread I mentioned, the sound card was not recognized, so the
beep was used alternately by the system.  Hopefully someone can help you
discover the cause of your "beep".  I would think it was a similar
problem, where the system doesn't see the sound card.. did you add a
hardware device, in particular, a wireless NIC?  I've seen that device
use the same interrupt as the sound card; in that case, when the sound
card was used, the system froze.

Good luck.

The single beep at boot is normal and a good thing. The beep codes
are good hardware diagnostic tools.

One short beep is good/normal. Anything else - zero beeps or more
than one short beep is a problem.

You can't turn that off from Device Manager and hopefully you don't
want to.

 

[EVH]

Since yesterday, my PC makes a single beep when the following questions appear:
- Outlook - Are you sure you want to permanently delete the selected item(s)?
- Word - Do you want to save the changes to Document1?
- Recycle Bin - Are you sure you want to empty the recycle bin?

I can do all these things, but for some reason, the PC has started to make
the single beep whenever I do these operations. I don't have a clue why it's
doing this. There are no settings in Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices
that should cause this to happen. I also don't recall making any changes
that may be responsible.

Help is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[EVH]

Here's how I fixed this problem:

1) Click START... RUN... type Services.msc in the box... click OK

2) Change both of the following services from "Automatic" to "Disable"

---> Plug and Play Service

---> Windows Audio Service


3) Reboot, then reset both the "Plug and Play" & "Windows Audio" Services
back to "Automatic".

4) Reboot, then test if the "Beep" is still there by opening a new MS Word
document, type a few letters, then exit without saving to get the
Exclamation/Beep prompt.


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