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Old 06-01-2007   #4 (permalink)
Chris P.


 
 

Re: Loud beep even when mute is on.

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:31:01 -0400, Tech_vs_Life wrote:

> One more note: stopping the "beep" driver (?) under Non-Plug and Play
> drivers in Device Manager (with View, Show hidden devices selected), solves
> the issue, while not disabling normal windows beeps.
>
> I assume I can safely disable the Beep driver. I don't know whether this a
> bug in Vista or SigmaTel, or both, or who provides the beep driver.


PCAnywhere explicitly sends "beeps" as opposed to sounds or sounds events,
and does not offer a way to shut them off. Easy solution as you've found
is to disable the beep driver.

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