Stop beeping at me!

After Windows 2003 SP1 came out, Microsoft released a BEEP hotfix to get rid of the BEEPING beep in Terminal Server sessions. Strangely enough after we installed SP2, the BEEP, came BEEP back..! (even if you disabled it trough policies,praying or throwing the kitchen sink at it)

I did some digging and it seems that the best way to get rid of the bl*BEEP*dy, BEEP is to do two things:

1) enter the following registry key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server]
“DisableBeep”=dword:00000001

2) Disable the “BEEP Service” (yes, you can!) with the following registry key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Beep]
“Start”=dword:00000004

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TAGS: Terminal Server, SP2, disable Beep