Disabling audio on a remote PC

[ysottot]

Is there a way to disable the audio on a remote PC through the registry?
There are a few users in my company that have their sound turned up for
things lilke AOL and notifications and refuse to turn it down.

Thanks

 

[Tim Meddick]

You can do this through the 'reg' command :

reg ADD \\ComputerName\HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AudioSrv /v Start /t
REG_DWORD /d 4 /f

(this command looks like a 'link' simply because of the double "\\" back-slashes that
indicate a remote PC)

....this command will disable Windows Audio on the specified computer.

However, it will not 'stop' the audio on a currently running machine, but on the next
boot audio will be disabled.

I don't know of a way to stop the audio service but it's possible to 'mute' sound on
a remote computer by downloding the small but powerfull {& free}utility "nircmd.exe".

This command can do loads but, to mute volume on a remote machine :

nircmd.exe copy remote \\ComputerName mutesysvolume 1

You can download the nircmd.exe utility by clicking on the link below :

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.zip

If you disable access to the program 'sndvol32.exe' from the Group Policy Editor's
list of programs the user cannot run, they will not be able to re-activate it.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[3c273]

I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure stopping the "Windows Audio" service
would do the trick.
Louis

 

[Jose]

I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure stopping the "Windows Audio" service
would do the trick.
Louis

Tackling personnel problems with stealth and slight of hand!

I like it.

Do you have other marketable skills?

 

[ysottot]

Thanks for the post.
several of us and HR have asked the users for office etiquette and they feel
above it all with loud personal cell phones and all kinds of noise from their
PC's