Disable the Beep in a Virtual Machine on Virtual Server

Contributor Icon Contributed by David Kirk     
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Everytime a system event occurs in Virtual Server, the PC speaker will beep. This will disable it.


You can disable to the beep service if you are tired of listening to your PC speaker during every system event.

Stop the Beep Service #1:

    1. Click Start
    2. Click Run
    3. In the run box type
    sc config beep start= disabled

Stop the Beep Service #2:

    1. Click Start
    2. Click Run
    3. In the run box type
    net stop beep

    Note: Using net stop, the service will restart when the virtual machine is restarted.

Windows KB

 

2 Comments -


  1. Anonymous said on July 25, 2009

    Thank you a million times over for your post. I was living in a beeping hell!

  2. Mike Roach said on April 6, 2010

    When I tried this, method 1 didn’t work until after I rebooted the virtual machine. Method 1 is the better solution though since it doesn’t have to be entered every time the VM is booted, and the registry hack in Microsoft’s knowledge base article on disabling VM beeps doesn’t have to be undone if you want to put the service back.

 

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