How to disable System Beeps/Alerts?

[Ste]

Hi there,

I've got a Dell Latitude D430 laptop running Windows XP SP2 and Office 2003.

Every time I receive a new email in Outlook, or when a wireless network is
found, or when I receive a popup window message, I am hearing a system beep
or alert sound.

It's not the same sound as found in Sounds, this sounds like an onboard
monotone beep, and muting the sounds has no effect on this.

It's getting quite annoying so I wondered if someone could tell me how to
turn off this alert please? I'm getting tens of emails a day, coming across
several wireless networks, and I'd like to turn these little beeps off.

I can't find anything relating to this in the Sounds section of the Control
Panel either.

Thanks for any help with this.

Ste

 

[Guest]

Open notepad and paste this code in it:

Option Explicit
Dim WSHShell, n, MyBox, p, itemtype, Title

Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
p = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound\"
p = p & "Beep"
itemtype = "REG_SZ"
n= "No"

WSHShell.RegWrite p, n, itemtype
Title = "System Beeps are now Disabled." & vbCR
Title = Title & "You may need to Log off/Log on" & vbCR
MyBox = MsgBox(Title,4096,"Finished")

Save As .vbs file and run!

Source of the script: kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[Peter Foldes]

Have you thought about contacting Dell and asking them about their beep codes. That will tell you what is causing it.
Just a thought

 

[R. McCarty]

Have you disabled "Beep on Error(s)"?. If it's the generic Beep, it's a
service in XP and you can set it's start mode to Disabled (4). But that
has a downside as legitimate errors will not be alerted with the beep.

Have you thought about contacting Dell and asking them about their beep
codes. That will tell you what is causing it.
Just a thought

 

[Peter Foldes]

Are you answering me ?? I am not the OP

 

[R. McCarty]

Beg your Pardon, it was directed to the OP.
I replied into the wrong part of the thread.

Are you answering me ?? I am not the OP

 

[Ste]

Thanks for this. I'll keep this as a last resort, but was hoping there would
be a way to achieve this via a checkbox somewhere?

Also, sorry for posting this thread twice - I did it on my Mac but it didn't
appear to have sent, so I re-wrote it on the PC...

Ste

 

[Ste]

I haven't yet as I assumed it was a Windows thing rather than a Dell thing?

Ste

Have you thought about contacting Dell and asking them about their beep
codes. That will tell you what is causing it.
Just a thought

 

[Ste]

Where about would I be able to find this menu option in XP?

Thanks,

Ste

 

[R. McCarty]

Easiest access is with a PowerToy for XP, Tweak-UI. Under the
General heading you'll find the "Beep on Error" checkbox.
Direct download link:
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

 

[Unknown]

In Outlook Express ( I don't have Outlook but may be similar) click tools
options general tab remove X from 'play sound when message arrives'.