For some reason the ^G character is not performing a 'default system sound' when it happens. No idea why, probably a misconfiguration on my behalf. It makes using a console very annoying - for example every exception on vmware produces an annoying beep when anything wrong happens.
The solution is in, of all places, the MSDN reference for Beep(), which states in small print to type: net stop beep followed by sc config beep start= disabled
Reenabling it involves typing: sc config beep start= system followed by net start beep
I hope you found this as useful as I did.
The solution is in, of all places, the MSDN reference for Beep(), which states in small print to type: net stop beep followed by sc config beep start= disabled
Reenabling it involves typing: sc config beep start= system followed by net start beep
I hope you found this as useful as I did.
On my old PC I spent 4 months where it didn't work (turned out to be a dodgy soundcard). This involved 4 months of boot-failure-reboot cycles and in the end I ripped out the PC speaker as the beep was annoying me.
That disabled it.
Hey, this just solved my aweful beeping problem I raised on your XPS entry! Brilliant! You have no idea how close to a lynching by colleagues at work I was with Citrix using the full power of the 1710's speakers! Woo-hoo! Thanx!