Turning Off System Beep When Hitting 2 Keys at Once

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Turning Off System Beep When Hitting 2 Keys at Once

#1 Post by Stefan Bruckel » Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:11 am

I have turned off the "system beep" in the BIOS. Yet, when I hit two keys at once by accident, the system makes a much louder than normal volume setting beep. Not an issue when just using the laptop speakers, but not very exciting when I hook up external powered speakers, listening to music at a low level, and then, totally out of the blue, getting the very loud system beep reminding me I hit 2 keys at once. Makes my whole office jump because it's so loud as to be heard throughout the office... any way to turn this useless beep off? Thank you for your ideas.
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#2 Post by RonS » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:24 am

1. Open the Device Manager
2. From the View menu, select "Show Hidden Devices"
3. Under "Non plug-and-play drivers" find the "Beep" device
4. Right-click and disable it.
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#3 Post by Stefan Bruckel » Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:14 pm

Thank you, Ron! My entire office thanks you...
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#4 Post by taob » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:16 am

Sweet... works under Vista too.
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#5 Post by Miller88 » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:28 am

Thanks from me for this also. I've been playing games on the laptop and right in the middle of a firefight in Call of Duty a Beep is kind of unrealistic.

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#6 Post by chrysb » Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:31 pm

Oh my god. I love you. I want to have your children!!!!!

I don't know why they would ever put this beep in.. It's archaic.

NEVER AGAIN IBM, NEVER AGAIN.

This will be like removing a tumor.
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#7 Post by Pirx » Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:30 pm

Many many thanks.

Somebody please write to Lenovo how to do it, so they will include this in the next software patch.

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