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I'm sure that Microsoft in their infinite wisdom had a reason for making my computer beep when I move the Volume Slider in the full window that you get by double-clicking on the volume icon in the lower right.

It's annoying.

I usually have WAVE at 100 percent so anytime I move the VOLUME slider and stop at my choice, I get the loudest most annoying beep. This isn't to be confused with the single slider that you get by single-clicking on the volume icon at the bottom right of the desktop.

Does anyone know how to make XP Pro shut up and stop the annoying beep?

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described the exact symptom (loud beep only when using the full mixer) and pointed to sound settings earlier. Since the "No Sounds" scheme did not stop it and the noise is coming from the speakers (not the internal buzzer), try these concrete, low-level fixes that are missed in many threads.

Open the full Volume Control (double‑click the speaker icon) → Options → Properties. Under "Adjust volume for" choose Playback and look for an entry called "Beep", "PC Beep" or similar (names vary by driver). Check it so it appears in the mixer, then mute that channel or drag it to zero. If the beep is being routed through the audio card this will stop it without changing other system events.

If that does not help, disable the system beep driver in Device Manager: My Computer → Properties → Hardware → Device Manager → View → Show hidden devices → expand "Non‑Plug and Play Drivers" → right‑click "Beep" → Disable (restart if asked). Alternately, from an elevated command prompt you can stop and disable the driver with:

sc stop beep
sc config beep start= disabled

This prevents the OS/BIOS beep from being emitted through any device; re-enable by reversing the steps.

Finally, check vendor utilities and keyboard hotkey software on the laptop — some OEM audio/keyboard utilities play a feedback tone on volume changes. Temporarily exit or uninstall those utilities, test with the USB multimedia keyboard unplugged, and update the audio driver. Disabling the "Beep" channel or driver is the least invasive and usually fixes the specific slider beep while leaving other sounds intact.

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Member Avatar for Michael_Knight

Sorry, its a standard feature and is not customizable. You can stop the noise by going to Sounds from the Control Panel and looking at Exclamation, Default Beep, Critical Stop and find out which one has the beep that you don't like and remove it.

Note: this will also take away the sound for the type of prompt associated with it. And another drawback is that your actual PC may beep from its internal speaker.

Alternatively - You can purchase a Multimedia keyboard that has volume controls on it.

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I should have added, that I have chose no sounds as my sound scheme. No sounds should mean exactly that, NO SOUNDS.

Why do I have to hear just this ONE sound?

Added: I also have a multimedia keyboard but I have it attached via usb to my laptop which has touch sensitive buttons along the top and the multimedia keyboard has never usurped the power from the one on the keyboard.

That's another question I'm afraid.

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Thats probably coming from the PC speaker then.

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usurped .

now if i new that word i may have a suggestion .what was it suppose to be

Member Avatar for Member #227351

No - coming from my speakers.

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