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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:04:51 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject: Re: Beeping
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:59:50AM -0000, Chris January wrote:
> > The weird thing is, it's not coming through my system speaker. It seems as
> > if the system speaker is forwarding the sound to the wave device. And only
> > cygwin does it.
> Microsoft's SDK documentation says Windows 95/98/Me beep with the sound card
> (if present) and Windows NT/2000/XP beep with the internal speaker.
> Try setting the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound\Beep to
> "No" and see if that helps.

My fix (under Windows 2000) was to set Default Beep = (None) in the following:

    Start/Settings/Control Panel/Sounds and Multimedia/Sounds/Sound Events/Windows

Jason

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